Forum - View topicNEWS: Mario Parody Game Kill the Plumber Rejected on iOS App Store
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Lord Dcast
Posts: 644 Location: 'Straiya |
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Why is this news? I'm not sure anyone's even interested...
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Agent355
Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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It's actually very interesting that Apple has stricter rules about parody than Android. Fair Use/Parody limitations can affect a lot of independent creators.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Had Kill the Plumber actually received approval, it probably wouldn't have been too long before Nintendo started filing lawsuits due to the game being way too similar to Super Mario Bros.
Isn't Super Mario Bros. actually Nintendo's first-party title? |
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Niello
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^ Relative to the person who made this game and Apple, Nintendo is indeed the third party, even if Mario is Nintendo's first party game. That's probably where your confusion came from.
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Agent355
Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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But Android did give it approval, only Apple said no. That's why it's interesting. How will Nintendo react, if they react? |
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invalidname
Contributor
Posts: 2434 Location: Grand Rapids, MI |
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And yet Apple will still sell you a dozen different apps for downloading and reading scanlations. And Apple gets 30% of every sale.
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_Cyphon_
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That's actually a great idea. Why don't we ever get the goombas' side of the view?
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tragedian
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No. It's third-party from Apple's perspective. Mario is first-party on Nintendo's consoles and such. |
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Polycell
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0nsen
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So Apple's being a dick. In other news, water is wet. I'm amazed people actually bought into their crap.
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Mikeski
Posts: 608 Location: Minneapolis, MN |
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You're making me feel gosh-darn old. spoiler[ok, fine, "Jumpman" isn't "Mario". Sure he's not...] On the original topic, would the game be worth anything if it wasn't an obvious dig at Nintendo? If not, the author is really only making money off the trademark infringement. If so, just change some sprites around so it's not obviously sponging off someone else's work, and release the game that way. Solved. ("Flappy Bird" was on iOS with the totally-obvious Mario background art.) |
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Wandering Samurai
Posts: 875 Location: USA |
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Apple probably knows that this makes them susceptible to having Nintendo throwing the book at them, so they saved themselves the trouble. And they probably weren't impressed with the game anyway.
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Yeah, I was wondering about why this game was rejected whereas Flappy Bird was not, even though that's blatantly using artwork that looks like Super Mario World.
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