The 3DGS Nerd

Stargate: The New Enemy

Apparently there is a new Game in the makings by a Team or Group named “Mach Creation“. They posted a thread in the forums yesterday, I think.

Anyway, they try to make a new Stargate game in 3DGS, which isn’t that uncommon actually, as there were several Stargate Projects already. But none ever really finished.

From what I can tell, it looks “okay”, though as I hold Dan Silverman in a very high opinion and have no reason to not believe what he say’s, the level on the main screenshots (more specifically the ones for P9L-958) is simply and plain a level from a contest entry by Lennart Hillen back in 2007. What’s most surprising, they didn’t even bother to modify it, they just took the level as it is. Ironically, right after Dan and some other users made them aware that we are not as stupid as our nicknames suggest, the page with the screenshots suddenly disappeared.

Now that we established that they like to use already made stuff from other people which they can use for free, let’ go one step further and let’s all have a look onto all the Copyrighted stuff they use there and not even paying a dime of licensing. Apparently it’s all used under a “Fair Use”-Clause, which then again is totally brainwashed because this game obviously isn’t for any Educational Purposes (let alone, why would a school want to make a Stargate game? To teach children about the effects of SciFi Addiction?) and also they can’t really argue that it’s a parody on the original Stargate because it’s well obvious that this is some fan game, made by (to stay polite) a handful of students who want to make a Stargate game.

And pretty much everything in this game is just a direct rip-off from Stargate, even if it’s argued that it’s not. To put it simple, they are standing in front of a red box and they deny the fact that the box is red, even if to everyone else it’s obvious that the box they are standing in front of is red! Just look at it, you can tell like a million things that are ripped off just by looking at a screenshot for a second. Heck, even the logo of the team screams “STARGATE” from 10 km distance…. In the snow! Against the wind on a stormy day (Can you say that? “A stormy day”?).

Well, next thing is, that the “Community Manager” (wow, they MUST have a 5000 people community…. or what would they need a Community Manager for?) claims to have some personal contacts to the Senior Community Manager of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment.

Besides, I know personally the senior community manager of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainement

Me sure you know Manager personally CME of do.

Well, for not embarrassing themselves too much, they could follow this very simple idea by fastlane:

It’s not a stargate, it’s a “worldportal”; it’s not carter, oneil and teal’c… it’s smith, jones, and razmuse’n! Hell, you could even KEEP the names if you attempt to make the game into a parody of the series (you can use the “200″ episode as a guide for how you could go about it). Teal’c would only be allowed to say “Indeed”… Carter can only speak in meaningless technobabble… O’neil, well, O’neil doesn’t say much. If youc can pull the parady angle off, you can use all the copyrights and make your game (though commercialization is still out of the question)

Peace!

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