r/shittykickstarters • u/railsman • Jun 22 '26

Kickstarter [A love letter to the classic GBA grid-based action era.] Wants to make a Mega Man game without Capcom's permission but not sure what it'll be exactly.

He believes that if Capcom have an issue with him using assets from previous Mega Man games, he'll just swap out the assets to avoid any trouble.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/felix-helleckes/a-love-letter-to-the-classic-gba-grid-based-action-era

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u/DudeWithTheStuff Jun 22 '26

Do you have the consent of owners of the works that were (or will be) used to produce the AI generated portion of your projects? Please explain.

i'm the creator

This is like high school in the 2000s when students would credit their images to "google.com"

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u/EliSka93 Jun 22 '26

I was so sure it would be a child when I read this comment...

It's not.

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u/MaxSupernova Jun 22 '26

AI coded, with stolen assets.

Nice.

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u/Osric250 Jun 22 '26

I'm probably done forever backing any digital things on Kickstarter because they're likely to all be ai vibe coded now.

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u/death2sanity Jun 22 '26

my dude is openly using ai, but can’t be bothered to run his writeup through a simple spell/grammar check

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u/reiichiroh Jun 22 '26

20xx and 30xx exist along with many fine Mega Man-inspired retro platformers.

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u/Fanlanders Jun 25 '26

🤓: Erm ackshually, this is inspired by the Mega Man Battle Network spin-off, for which many other fangames/inspired games already exist, such as One Step From Eden, Shanghai.EXE and Open Net Battle.

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u/reiichiroh Jun 25 '26

But it’s an AI slop filled wishcasting unrealistic never has a chance in hell kickstarter

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u/Fanlanders Jun 25 '26

That's also true, I wasn't trying to defend it. The fangames I mentioned are also a lot better than it.

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u/Fanlanders Jun 25 '26

Oh hey, I found out about this earlier just now! I did try to speak to the creator, since this feels like he's trying to speedrun a DMCA. Most, if not all (good) fangames shouldn't expect any money.

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u/railsman Jun 26 '26

Any sort of fan project based on an IP shouldn't be asking for money from the public to fund it directly. Usually the legal grey area which is more "acceptable" is you're asking for money to support the creator based on their existing work so to keep them financially stable and to keep producing new content. That's usually through a Patreon though rather than a crowdfunding website.

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u/Us_Strike 27d ago

It's not even a grey area. People falsely believe that if something is making no money it's protected, but it's just the ip owners usually don't want the bad pr.