Dear developers, tell me honestly, how many of you ever developed Knights and Merchants?

[kardiomed]

There are too many common details. The foresters are identical, the military are similar. The townspeople are similar to the servants, only they are also divided by gender.

[Brasileiro]

What?

[Catalytic]

He's calling them plagiarists and accusing them of ripping off some other game. He does this because he doesn't understand that artists take inspiration from older stuff all the time. There are only so many ways to depict Vikings. There are always going to be similarities. That doesn't mean they did anything wrong.

[Brasileiro]

Oh, so "Knights and Champions" must be name to some other game... now I got it.
Yeah, sure... some other game is the only thing on earth that got the picture of medieval details...

[kardiomed]

Originally posted by Catalytic:

He's calling them plagiarists and accusing them of ripping off some other game. He does this because he doesn't understand that artists take inspiration from older stuff all the time. There are only so many ways to depict Vikings. There are always going to be similarities. That doesn't mean they did anything wrong.

Honestly, I'm not calling anyone plagiarists. I'm just genuinely curious if any of the Northgard developers were KaM developers. I also wanted to ask these developers to revive KaM on a new, modern graphical base.

[Lactose Intolerant Volcano God]

Originally posted by kardiomed:

I also wanted to ask these developers to revive KaM on a new, modern graphical base.

It doesn't usually work like that. Even if developers previously worked on a title, they may no longer own the rights to that title, especially if they now work for a different company. (If you create something as an employee of a company, that company retains ownership of the intellectual property - not you.)

You've probably already seen this, but it looks like there's a fan mod remake: https://www.kamremake.com/

[kardiomed]

Originally posted by Lactose Intolerant Volcano God:

Originally posted by kardiomed:

I also wanted to ask these developers to revive KaM on a new, modern graphical base.

It doesn't usually work like that. Even if developers previously worked on a title, they may no longer own the rights to that title, especially if they now work for a different company. (If you create something as an employee of a company, that company retains ownership of the intellectual property - not you.)

You've probably already seen this, but it looks like there's a fan mod remake: https://www.kamremake.com/

Got it. Thanks. Yes, I've seen it and played it. At the moment, the full version is scheduled to be released on Steam in March of next year (and then, who knows, maybe it'll be pushed back another year..).

[testitan]

its poverty. rich studios dont need copy paste
i find gothic 3 the best example for diversity.

that doesnt mean game industry cannot improve. they are just too poor.

france is poor few people germany is rich. i found in history why.
best thing you can do is waiting until they learn it, or go better today.
I decided to go the own road a better folk and a faster pacing. All my people decide for this we are many. let the slowbys on the road and move on they WASTE YOUR TIME.