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After more than a quarter-century, SimCity 2000 still receives plenty of interest from nostalgic gamers who like to relive their early gaming experiences. This is likely one of the reasons why developer Nicholas Ochoa decided to code a remake using the Electron framework.
The game, titled OpenSC2K, was released on GitHub earlier this year and received quite a bit of attention on sites such as Reddit and Hacker News.
While it is billed as an “open source” version, the remake did include original artwork, belonging to Electronic Arts. These images and sounds are definitely not free to use, something the developer is fully aware of now.
A few days ago Electronic Arts sent a DMCA takedown notice to GitHub asking the platform to remove the infringing repository from its site.
“Assets from the game SimCity 2000 are being infringed upon,” EA writes. The company points out that the game can be purchased legally through Origin where it’s still being sold for a few dollars.
While OpenSC2K is far from a full remake, Electronic Arts makes it clear that the SimCity 2000 assets are not for public use.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday July 31 2018, @11:34AM
And when there's a lot of links -- this one has so many -- hard to follow them all. But, Hacker News, there's a link to the Hacker News. And someone there tweeted, the guy knew what he was doing. He knows about Copyright -- so important. He knew he was violating the Copyright. But he asked, please don't sue me. And, they haven't sued him. Nice folks!!!!