For the post month, Reddit user Dragon_GameDev2 has been working on a small side project and has envisioned a Pokemon Game created with the Unreal Engine and played on a PC in the first-person perspective.
While your mind may be drifting to something similar now Pokemon Snap, Dragon_GameDev2 had more violent plans for this game and instead showed some videos of players being dropped into one Pokemon-filled landscape, armed with modern firearms and left free to hunt (and defend against) as many pocket monsters as they like.
While it was a bit harrowing to see someone empty an entire clip into an innocent little Pokemon, complete with blood effects, the basic premise of “Pokemon x FPS” was still exciting enough for people who shortly after Dragon_GameDev2 posted some clips of their project on Reddit and YouTube, they exploded.
And as we all know, when something explodes that a Nintendo fan makes, Nintendo likes to respond with thanks, admiration, and respect. Just kidding, they removed most of his videos. Even tweets highlighting the clips removed the footage. One of the only places you can still see the game in action – at least where Dragon_GameDev2 uploaded it himself – is on Reddit:
That sucks, the way it always is, because unlike many other big international companies, Nintendo seems totally unwilling – or even unable – to differentiate between commercial projects that infringe their copyrights and fan-made toys that are free and made for fun. For example, this was just the beginning of a year-long series that Dragon_GameDev2 hopes to conclude, in which they develop a new game every month.
And just so we can put this on record in case you never noticed legal teams work harder than just checking igamesnews Once a week we didn’t post about this project, nor did we mention it in passing, and yet Nintendo’s lawyers thought so. The point isn’t that people need to keep things like this a secret, the point is that Nintendo needs to relax!
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Nintendo’s lawyers need to relax
It’s almost a meme at this point, that’s how predictable and tragic the process has become. The world finds out about a cool fan game that someone (or a team) made, the world prepares to enjoy it, Nintendo’s lawyers step in, they shut it down, and we end up not enjoying it after all.
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