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Doesn't credit the original creator at all in the actual website?

Strongly agree.

Bo, this looks very cool, but I'd encourage you to immediately add "Based on Papers Please by Lucas Pope", with a link here:

https://papersplea.se/

Satire is protected by copyright law and does not require permission or attribution.

That's like sticking a finger in front of someone's eyeball and saying "I'm not touching you, what am I doing that's illegal?"

The request in comments above is to do the polite thing and share credit for those not yet aware of the game.

Not quite. Your example could quite easily be considered an illegal form of harassment or intimidation,

But I agree with the principle, you don't have to be nice only when it would be illegal not to be.

That doesn’t seem to be the claim they were making. Regardless of legality, I’d argue that it’s the right thing to do in this case.

The defense is that it's not literally illegal? Good lord, the bar is in hell.

Too many people conflate legality with morality.

Agree, and in my experience, the challenge is that they understand legality but do not have good moral instincts.

https://youtu.be/uQl5aYhkF3E

("You're not wrong Walter, ...")

Should/Did id software have given the same kind of credit to the creators of the first first person shooter game?

Why or why not?

Are you familiar with Papers, Please and did you open the link you're commenting on?

I don't recall Commander Keen crediting Nintendo/Mario.

I don't remember Commander Keen using Nintendo/Mario art assets either though.

They copied the art style / assets, not just game mechanics

And the name itself!

Lucas Pope (the author of papers please) has stopped publishing devlog for this exact reason.

Is there a source for that? The game is over a decade old, so I imagine at some point you stop posting devlogs because there's no longer any development to blog about.

This is more about his future games: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/papers-please-creat...

Can you elaborate? I can't immediately see the connection between publishing a devlog and people not attributing one's work.

Sorry it is more related to AI clones. He doesn't want people cloning his ideas before his games are published. I just wanted to bring the fact that Lucas Pope had taken a stance on those clones.

Ahh, I see.

I thought he wound down publishing devlogs before AI clones, were there more than the ones on https://dukope.com/devlogs/ I can try to hunt down to read?

No he has not.

Lucas Pope is concerned about new games being copied by AI.

NOT about someone making a sendup which is a fun nod to Papers Please.

Lighten up.

Cmon everyone knows.

There's not the faintest hint here of nefarious ripping off.

It's light hearted fun - this is not stealing Lucas Pope's game.

I don't think it's nefarious, probably just forgot to mention it. It's the polite thing to do.

Lol, barking at the wrong tree here, this AI/crypto bro central.

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