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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Demons of Dex (now available)

« on: September 09, 2016, 08:31:52 AM »

Yes I know they give me credits in the game but it really downplays my contribution and emphasizes their own. Even my surname is not shown in the titlescreen and my name should really be on the top just below the titlescreen. Moreover if you google up "Demons of Dex Hokuto Force" you can see that they clearly present the game as if it was their creation. I would not have approved the released of the c64 version in this form (whose source code is in large parts identical to the vic20 version) if I would have had the choice.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Demons of Dex (now available)

« on: September 09, 2016, 08:13:13 AM »

Yes, I am Petri on the Grimrock forums and the 3585 bytes version is the vic20 game I wrote.

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Traditional Roguelikes (Turn Based) / Re: Demons of Dex (now available)

« on: September 09, 2016, 07:23:37 AM »

Hi! I am the creator of Demons of Dex, a game I released for the vic-20 last year. Please note that this version endorsed by CSDb is an unauthorized version that was made behind my back and without permission. A C64 group who call themselves Hokuto Force took the "Copyright Petri Häkkinen. All rights reserved" tagged source code from Github added a few bells and whistles like the titlescreen, options and custom charset. The gameplay is identical to the vic20 version because they used the stolen source code as is (C64 and vic20 can run the same machine code). As you probably know for roguelikes gameplay is king and everything else is superfluous. They are now representing the c64 version of the game as their own creation and give me no credits on the CSDb page and the marketing material they are posting on the web.

I have asked the game and its page to be removed from CSDb but the admins of the site apparently do not care about copyright infringements and support Hokuto Force's illegal and immoral actions.

Full story here:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7648

Petri Häkkinen
The creator of Demons of Dex