Does the dev of Sexy Hiking know about this game?

[night of fire]

This seems like way more than a homage. It's pretty much Sexy Hiking with shinier graphics and a price tag. Aside from quoting a few forum posts of his, did you talk to Jazzuo at all about this game?

I understand that since the original was free maybe it is perfectly legal just to copy it wholesale like this. But I am not talking about legality. In terms of respect, this just seems like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ move to the original creator who probably won't see a single cent out of this.

[bennett]

I wrote to him a couple of times, but he's really withdrawn from videogame culture and doesn't respond to interview requests anymore. I don't know dude, I'm sorry you feel this way about the game... I don't really agree with your assessment, I think it shows respect to honor old forgotten games by reviving the ideas in them. Besides, I think you'll find that if you play my game, it isn't actually that close to Sexy Hiking in terms of mechanics.

When people make games that are close in mechanics to QWOP, which happens a lot, I feel honored rather than disrespected. But I respect that not everyone may feel the same.

[Ohmu]

Having played both, I also gotta disagree with 'night of fire'. Between differing mechanics, polish, narrative, etc, the game stands on it's own two feet (or cauldron, rather), very well.

I think 'homage' is the perfect description. The method of movement followed by the dead tree was the homage (narration references aside), from there on, this game stands apart.

[Slimurgical (Stormy)]

"Imitation is the greatest form of flattery" Is a thing for a pretty good reason.

When someone likes what you do, they'll sometimes be inspired to do something similar.
Even if it's because they want to pursue the money your idea got you, it's still imitation, and that, no matter what the motive behind it, can still always be flattering.

[springtoiffel]

Originally posted by bennett:

I think it shows respect to honor old forgotten games by reviving the ideas in them.

this.
let's be honest: how many people have heard of "Sexy Hiking" before this game?
and i guess many people download Sexy Hiking now, I too have downloaded it.

[somerndomdude]

This is a copy of sexy hiking as much as Counter Strike is a copy of the original Doom.

The physics are much better, the mountain is well designed, and credit is given to Jazzuo within 10 minutes of the start.

[Ratch]

You aren't Jazzuo .. why are you getting offended for him? You seem too stupid for this to be an elaborate troll/bait. The legality isn't remotely compromised and seriously, this game upped Sexy HIking's relevancy damn near twentyfold. Be honest, you'd never heard of Sexy Hiking before playing/watching this. This is a copy of Sexy Hiking like Call of Duty is a copy of CounterStrike. You see how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb your assertion is when applied to literally any other game? How about Stardew Valley to Harvest Moon? I guess there just shouldn't be video games anymore, since every single video game is a copy of another, right?

[Ironhorse]

It wouldn't matter either way, you can not copyright game design.

[CptCrabhands]

Originally posted by bennett:

I think it shows respect to honor old forgotten games by reviving the ideas in them.

I agree, maybe not every game but some as someone would call "copies" of the original games of the old days can be called "paying respect" to the old devs, because nowadays a lot of games that come out are either classical platformer, action or FPS and they rarely have something very interesting about them.

Moreover, it feels good when you see something so well made and besides, the credit was explicitly given to the original designer of the Sexy hiking, explaining or rather guessing the design behind it, because as it is stated above, the original dev is not available to reach out.

When you take a really old design and make it better, i would say that it's called "refinement"

[TylerF]

Originally posted by bennett:

I wrote to him a couple of times, but he's really withdrawn from videogame culture and doesn't respond to interview requests anymore.

He should put Sexy Hiking on Steam for like $1. ;-P

[Wren]

Originally posted by TylerF:

Originally posted by bennett:

I wrote to him a couple of times, but he's really withdrawn from videogame culture and doesn't respond to interview requests anymore.

He should put Sexy Hiking on Steam for like $1. ;-P

I'd buy it. I know I can get it for free, but since it led to GOI, I'd like to support the original