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As far as I understand patents, in this case, only a pipeline, or process can be patented, for example a process to make the tilesets could be patented but if you do create a tileset that are visually similar without that said process it won't get liable. Also if the tileset layout would get patente...

As long as you don't obviously violate the copyright and trademarks of Keen, I wouldn't worry. If you manage to make a game that's big enough to get legal attention from Microsoft, you've already won the game industry lottery. I did some research on my own as well and seems like the line on what co...

Copyright law protects finished works of art. It does not protect things like facts, ideas, procedures, or an artist’s style, no matter how distinct.Source

Thank you so much for your answers. Found online Roobar's "Planet Cloudious" game. It has the same flavour as Commander Keen while it has no hint of the original IP other than feel. My curiosity is, if Roobar would decide to sell the game online(also would happily pay for it :D ), would that conflic...

Hello fellow Keeners!
I was wondering, if I make and release a game that has the same visual style of the Galaxy episodes, without any relation to the original IP (no title, no cameo, no copied artwork etc), just the pseudo 3D tile set layout, would this strike as a copyright infringement?

Thank you so much for the explanation. I guess I have better keywords to search around now thankfully, wow I am already blasted away, this is neat! I know some info about the timeline of the two engines, but that is mostly what is available on the surface on the forums or on youtube, I was oblivious...

just wanted to let you guys know, that things are progressing nicely. there is still some work to do. but I am proud to announce that most of the heavy lifting seems to be done. big shoutouts to K1n9_Duk3! https://i.postimg.cc/15fTbTKt/FITF-work-in-progress.png I see you write C code, do you patch ...

:dead2 You should have seen my face when I entered the levels, are you sure this is not written from scratch? :D It is really great what you folks achieved here, I will return to play it more. It is quite challenging, but doable. Props to the red color effect in this passage ways. That also left me ...

Please more tease!!!
Could you tell us a little more about your plans?

Don't know, but I guess I will keep making songs when time is available.
Really had fun doing two songs, then work hit hard.
I think I should post those aswell on YT.

Granted. Your landlord is an animal lover. So he allows a dog and a cat from each race, male and female, snakes, tarantulas, every quadruped, reptile or not, every insect. Your house is a zoo and you're too afraid to escape.

I wish I could teleport.

Granted. Everyone is highly intellectual, commoners understand everything about mathematics, physics, art, philosophy etc, but the Earth is flat.

I wish I could see in the whole spectrum.

Woah this mod is amazing!!! I have been missing in the community for a while since I got in collage, just to return to such a great mod. Now I am curious on what there still is to be found in the forum. GOSH great job in here, very creative pixel art, love it. Thank you for pinging me. I would have ...

I’m just gonna try to ping some more of the active composers around here: I was summoned, yeah I am in, I will need to play the mod and the levels or some theme to follow, get a feel and inspiration and do the songs. Hi everyone, this thing is basically done! I'm writing this message to ask if anyo...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/lec4en5be76ggqj/Level10-2Screenshot.png?dl=1 Level 10 again, with grass that hides Keen's feet. Also you see new looking Meeps. Their singing is no better than their new look. Let's not forget Keen Dreams' grassy level https://www.commander-keen.com/levelmaps/7/0...