This is the first screen of the English demo for Ghostbusters: the Adventure Game. Apparently an Italian team is asking for money (!) on KS for this crude AGS point and click title.
Not only the project doesn't have the rights (obviously) but also clearly doesn't have someone who speaks decent English and can help them.
@MichaelKlamerus yeah. and as I was saying on FB, I don't mind an awful and quick fangame, if it's done for free and with passion? That's alright.
But asking for money and even mentioning wanting to use AI voiceovers (on a live I saw)? Nope.
Forgot to mention the "official soundtrack" composed and arranged by Gabriele Lombardo but clearly still using themes from the movie.
You really can't make this any worse.
@damianogerli was just eyeing the Kickstarter page after seeing your post, as I wasn't aware of this before. So many red flags that I don't even know where to begin with it. Bewildering to me that over 100 people backed it already.
@hogsy that's the most bewildering part, even before the demo it all looked incredibly scammy. the fact alone that you're trying to use an IP you have no rights or control over, the strange character art which you could never use in an AGS game...
@damianogerli the aesthetics seem off too: it's supposedly a pixel art game, but there are resources that are rendered at a much higher resolution (e.g., the text in your previous screenshot, or the scaled characters in this one)
@lminiero yep, that's why I really don't know where the dishonesty begins and the stupidity ends here.
But the worrying bit is that they already raised more than 4k (I mean, it could also be worrying for them if Sony catches a whiff of this)
@damianogerli to my knowledge, KS only gives the actual money if/once the project reaches the goal at the end, so maybe until that happens they technically didn't receive any money for this yet? But I realize that's semantics of course, and I'm not a lawyer 😄
@lminiero technically they don't get any money if the KS fails, true. The problem is that if it is successful, then that means Sony can sue them instead of a simple C&D. So I don't know what they should wish for :D
(four days ago on FB they said they were "discussing" the rights, cause obviously that's something that can wait...)
@damianogerli yep, I was checking the comments on their KS and there's the same responses about them working on it, and that was 20 days ago. Even if that's true, licensing discussions can last forever, so I don't see how they expected that to be done before the end of the campaign
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