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Comment by impendia | Hacker News Reader

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:

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!

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.

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