he can choose whatever name he wants to dude, you can't just claim a loving name...
1. He's nice enough that we could have come to an understanding like adults if he already had chosen my name. I wasn't ever going to tell him IT'S MINE DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2. He's nice enough that he would probably be like "Ok he's calling his Blank so i'll make sure i don't accidentally name mine the same thing"
3. When it gets down to Copyright issues, assuming either of us ever want to copyright our games, it's not as black and white as that, these aren't pets, these are games; public products that consumers are going to be purchasing. Again, i never said "IT'S MINE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT", but if i'm selling a legally copywritten game, he can't sell his game with the same name; and vice versa. Just like how I can't make a company named Microsoft, and i can't sell a cereal named Fruit Loops.
So technically, yes, i can "just claim a loving name." I just figured i would tell him before he names his game as apposed to after, to avoid playing the "who's going to rename" game, and just any problems in general.
EDIT:
Are you accusing him of something or just generally being salty that he was working on a bl successor first?
thanks for all the love and support guysI'm accusing him of reading my mind and planning to steal my game's name that never even left my imagination in any way until i told it to him in the PM i sent him.
Of course i'm not accusing or salty. I look at [ASF]'s game as a source of inspiration, not frustration. Seeing his game makes me want to work on mine. I've been a fan of him since he was the map making god in the good ol' days. Hell i remember falling asleep at my computer waiting for NYC to load.
Also, he did start working on it first, but I've been thinking about doing this for years; we both have been, It's something we have in common.
I shall use this to exact my unholy revenge.Ignore him, he'll eventually goes away.
I assume you mean me. I wanted to look past this comment but i can't because i know for every 1 person who commented it there are many more who thought it. So with that said here is my rebuttal.
- I am not a troll
- My game is not a joke
- I am not upset, butthurt, or frustrated in any way with [ASF]Ghost, in fact the exact opposite is true.
- I will not go away
- If you don't like me or what i say you can feel free to ignore me
- If you think my game is a lie because you havn't seen it yet, or your interested in general, instead of making passive aggressive remarks, why don't you ask me to see it? If i get enough "I wanna see your project"'s then i will actively open a (what i can only call a) semi-blog about it in the forums and on twitter
- If the only responses I get in relation to my game here and in the game design megathread are negative, which i bring up because it has been almost universally the truth so far, i just won't end up making a topic about it. I don't need the hate getting in the way.
- Just because i haven't shown anything off yet doesn't mean there is nothing
I'll append if i forgot something.