OdysseyPoint

There are numerous reasons to port games to old consoles beyond as a passion project:

• Development of tools and knowledge that benefits that homebrew scene
• Increases knowledge and skill of the dev
• Increases visibility of that scene, which in turn increases the viability of new commercial games for homebrew

The guy that complained about homebrew ports makes badly researched and edited 4hr long youtube rants that only his other bitter gameplay critic friends watch.

@Quick_Man They are copying the Sony's employee's work and expecting credit, I find that as distasteful as you do me not crediting the copier.

Aside from the ethical reasons for not using generative AI (using copyrighted work as training data), it always just looks like you're trying to take a shortcut.

There are shortcuts in real creative work, but they have to be earned. The AI kind of shortcut is lazy and tells me you aren't that bothered about the result.

Why then should I be interested in your work if you aren't?

@Quick_Man 1-for-1 copying the work of actual creative people does not deserve credit.

This comes across as more of an opinion piece than a news article (even though I agree with all your takes on generative AI here).

@HappyFuzzy Except it's not their work, it the creative person who was working at Sony.

I can't feel sorry for the guy that made the logo, even if the response was rude.

It reminds me of sprite rippers getting upset when they don't get credited. Well done but they're still not your sprites.

@Damo "If this were a man we were talking about here, you wouldn't even have commented, would you?"

If this were a man your article wouldn't exist.

@theconstellationiris "Many people of many walks of life find careers based on those of their parents or family..."

Would you be excusing nepotism if it were a man? We know the answer.

@flibblesan The opposite is true. Because she is a woman you're saying we're not allowed to question her path and experience for the role.

You wouldn't hesitate to question it if a man was given a CEO role by his father.

@Damo "As noted in this piece, she has industry experience."

Which her father also provided:

"she joined her father Henk’s company Blue Planet Software, Inc. as the director of business development, a position in which she served for four years. In 2014, Maya then became the CEO of Tetris and the parent company Blue Planet Software. "

"Everybody knows me, because I'm a girl, right?"

I think it's perhaps because you were promoted to CEO by your father, the founder of the company.

This is what remains of the BBC. They're losing licence fee payers by the hundreds of thousands every year, all they have left is rage bait to get attention.

@Mrakey None of which are a SNES game.

@Mrakey "Waste of time, emulators already fix NES games."

If you had taken the time to read the replies to the dev's twitter post above he said: "I like the challenge, and I hope that in the future others will take my ports and make them look/sound 16-bit."

Isn't it nice to see devs just working on a game and sharing their progress instead of slinging a Kickstarter with plushies out of the gate?

@retrosumus It's hard to take criticism (whether it's right or wrong) so it's to your credit that you've responded calmly and thoughtfully. Thank you.

@retrosumus I appreciate that things will change as the game develops, but you have to ask why the funding may not meet it's target. In my opinion that is because it looks substandard and uninteresting. I hope that you hire a pixel artist to oversee the visuals.

I also recommend you remove the Soviet symbols and references from the game, to be honest I'm shocked that you thought this was a good idea as there are bound to be a certain amount of people put off by it (including publishers), why risk it?

First thing I noticed is that they're using the RoboCop font in the game. Not very professional.

Secondly, they do not have an actual artist on staff only a "3D designer", and it shows in the product. A retro game (even with rendered models) charging money without a pixel artist on paid staff is not a good start.