Re: VGStorm Presents Manamon, a new fully featured RPG!
I am not sure how to say this so I’m going to say it the best I can. This is just such a clear remake of the Pokémon game. Is this even legal? One thing I like about Braillemon is that it is the real thing and it is free so it can be. Also that the game has been worked on and updated for about 3 years now. Braillemon is not 100% complete but it is close to it and this way we can have the real game the real experience. To change the name around, and make a little different then charge $40 to it is I feel a dishonor to the real Pokémon game TV show story and in some ways a dishonor to Braillemon. Another game came out a while ago Sarah and The Castle of Wizardry which made me wonder to how that was legal and slightly sad when I played it because it was only a quarter if that of what the real HP gaming experience would be. The only character that was changed in that game was Harry to Sarah. Would anyone want to play a game called Larry Notter and the mortermers slate? Granted I know that going through the proper channels to get the rights to make a video game into an audio game and charge for it would be a lot of money, legal documents, and red tape. No doubt if someone else followed in the footsteps of daigonite maybe the blind community would finally have a Harry Potter game and some others as well. I’m not at all trying to say that it’s easy to make a game but to spend hard work making a game that you’re not going to sell, so that blind players can have the same experience as there sighted peers is just incredible. Changing someone else’s work so that you can make it slightly different and sell it off as your own work doesn’t really sit right with me. If I took a classmate’s mid-term paper and changed the title, changed some of the words around that in no way would make it my paper. If I do research and I get all this good information I still have to site it I can’t just change the wording of it. It would be another story if you emailed Nintendo and said hey would you mind if I made a game for the blind like Pokémon? I can change the names if you want and so on. I know what it’s like to want to play games that are out for sighted people. I want to be out there going around my neighborhood playing Pokémon Go. I want to play Sims games and all that. I also believe that they should have to be made 110% accessible for everyone! Yes I know what it feels like to be left out in the cold while sighted peers play the games I long to it sucks! I don’t think taking something that isn’t ours and trying to make it into our own thing is going to get us there. It’s not going to get us the games we want and it’s not the right way to go about it. I have no doubt that you put a lot of work, time, and effort into this game. I know that you as well as the beta testing team have done countless hours of bug hunting and fixes. However I cannot support a project that is someone else’s work.
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