‘Project X: Light Years’ is a successor to 1992 Amiga shoot ’em up.
Over the weekend, Team17 have officially given the thumbs up to Project X: Light Years — a new follow-up to its 1992 horizontal shooter for Amiga that is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
When the campaign’s organizer, the “big Amiga fan” Retronix originally launched the project, it stated in the FAQ that it believed the project could go ahead without Team17 due to the name presumably no longer being trademarked due to the countless games called Project X on Steam and because of a belief that Team17 was unable to claim copyright on the project because of its use of generic traits associated with the shoot ’em up genre. Nevertheless, it claimed that it had been trying to reach out to the studio, to get explicit approval anyway and hadn’t heard anything back yet in response.
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‘Project X: Light Years’ is a successor to 1992 Amiga shoot ’em up.
Over the weekend, Team17 have officially given the thumbs up to Project X: Light Years — a new follow-up to its 1992 horizontal shooter for Amiga that is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
When the campaign’s organizer, the “big Amiga fan” Retronix originally launched the project, it stated in the FAQ that it believed the project could go ahead without Team17 due to the name presumably no longer being trademarked due to the countless games called Project X on Steam and because of a belief that Team17 was unable to claim copyright on the project because of its use of generic traits associated with the shoot ’em up genre. Nevertheless, it claimed that it had been trying to reach out to the studio, to get explicit approval anyway and hadn’t heard anything back yet in response.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
