Frédérick Raynal just won some legal situation over Atari for having been lead dev of the original Alone in the Dark, and I guess for all those games being made over that IP he may get quite some money.
Raynal was also the lead dev of Little Big Adventure 1 & 2, Time Commando and Toy Commander.
forum.magicball.net/showthread.php?t=17994 >Atari never gave him royalty fee for his copyrights being the inventor of Alone in the Dark, in game 3D and survival horror game. >I don't know if it tells you the same thing as me but Atari certainly made lots of money on Fred's back so that means they'll have to pay. If that represent lots of money, I hope that this money will serve as an LBA3 budget
this 1992 game, it's the father of survival horror games
Michael Morales
It's a game that inspired RE
Easton Cook
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnddddd capcom.decide for fpssssss
Robert Brown
Exactly.
Aiden Williams
Really man?
Owen Gutierrez
>Atari *Infogrames
Luis Robinson
Atari absorbed them, they're named like that in the article
from the article with google translate: >The High Court of Lyon deliberated September 8, 2016 in a case between the past ten years Frédérick Raynal, a pioneer in the development of French video games at Atari, formerly Infogrames Entertainment. This company publishes and distributes video games since the 1980s, one of its flagship products is the survival horror game Alone in the Dark released the first version in 1992.
>Litigation kind between contributing to the creation of a game and the editor
>Frédérick Raynal has contributed greatly to the success of this game by inventing a new video game technology in three dimensions, allowing the player to have different views and immerse themselves fully in Alone in the Dark. The trade press has widely recognized as the creator of the game, as was highlighted during the trial. Yet at the end of his contract, and after Atari has reissued this game four times, allowed a film adaptation and received the famous award of the best games of 1993 Magazine Generation 4, the company does paid no additional compensation Frédérick Raynal under his copyright.
Michael Torres
>In 2005, it has sued his former employer for a declaration in court infringement of its copyright for the game Alone in the Dark. To date, its chances of success were very low but, in the meantime, the position of judges has evolved to reconcile the interests of companies publishing games than those of many artistic contributors.
>History of the regime of ownership of video game copyright
>After admitting that a video game was much a work in 1986, judges have applied unitary legal regime software. However, paragraph 1 of Article L. 113-9 of the Intellectual Property Code provides direct devolution of property rights on software and its documentation created by one or more employees in the exercise of their function or instruction the employer in the hands of the latter. Thus, when a labor contract was signed by the various contributors to the creation of a video game development studio or publisher of this game, their copyrights were automatically vested in the employer.
>The application of the software work plan to all of the video game was extremely favorable to employers, which has been strongly criticized. That is why the Supreme Court intervened in 2009 in the judgment says Cryo stating that "the video game is a complex work that can not be reduced to a single dimension software, regardless of the importance of it so that each of its components and subject to the regime applicable to it according to its nature. " The doctrine then spoke of distributive qualification for the video game.
Jackson Parker
No, Atari died and IG scooped up the name from Hasbro in the early 00's. Eventually they adopted the name for brand power I guess.
Brayden Price
Wrong, Sweet Home inspired RE
Evan Hernandez
>Raynal judgment against Atari, an application of the case law Freeze
>This is in strict line with that judgment that has placed the TGI Lyon. First, he applied the collaborative work plan the game Alone in the Dark after finding that the publisher did not have an executive role and that the work of various individuals who was predominant. This helped to prevent a finding of collective work for the game, under which all copyright would vest in Atari.
>Then the judge granted Frédérick Raynal his authorship of the software "3d Desk" and "Scen Edit" and the game play, that is, the game mechanics, the arrangement of cameras and staging video game with interactive rendering the scenario of the game. An expert was appointed in order, to determine the scope of the recovery desdit software and game play in games Alone in the Dark 2, 3, 4 and 5 which will allow assess the amount of damages for copyright infringement. Furthermore, the Court accepted that moral rights of Frédérick Raynal was violated by Atari when it had not mentioned his name to the awards of the Generation 4 magazine.
>In conclusion, the issue of compensation is in the hands of the expert to be appointed in accordance with this decision. It highlights the benefits of Cryo jurisprudence for authors of video games, and the judicial victory of Frédérick Raynal certainly satisfy the whole community.
Blake Gonzalez
except RE plays nothing like sweet home, it only has the door opening animation
Grayson Sanchez
Being single in a poorly light chamber
Carson Harris
Something like this too
Xavier Rogers
How can one man have that much hair?
Kayden Howard
he also looks young as fuck for a 50 years old man
Kevin Gomez
console players...
Ryder Green
Atari should be destroyed.
John Nguyen
Atari still exists?
Julian Ramirez
Also since we're talking Fred Raynal and survival horror, he's working with his small studio on a top down survival horror game about rescuing kids from psychopaths/serial killers, called 2Dark. Some of its art looks quite bleak or ____dark.
Sweet home and fps. They really wanted fps style but switched to the rendered bgs.
Mason Evans
This user is right A company called Infogrames eventually bought the rights to Atari, and then they renamed themselves Atari for supposed street cred. They seem to be dicks like Atari was though.
Levi Jenkins
They also went with the exact same style of gameplay of Alone in the Dark, tank controls and shit, that ain't a convenience, that was inspiration.
Isaac Wood
Atari doesn't even really exist right now. There's maybe 10 people who form "the Atari corporation" at this point in time, and all they do is manage their old licenses.
Maybe if this hurts the current owners badly enough they'll finally sell the Atari brand to someone who can make use of it. The poor brand has changed hands so many times since the 1980s that guessing who will own them next has become a game in and of itself.
Benjamin Cox
Now Blood devs should do the same.
Landon Flores
FUCK YOU ATARI
Luke Phillips
aren't the current "Atari" a relatively big company? I'm not sure if he's really going to get millions off this legal thing, and maybe they'll settle for something they can pay
Tons of acquisitions and shit, from what i've read on the wiki, Atari-Infogrames have some joint business thing with NAMCO Bandai
Landon Ortiz
Nice.
Aiden Foster
this whole issue seems to be over a technicality Fred got, that parts of his dev tools he and his team made can be found in Alone in the Dark 2 3 4 and whatever, not sure if the same thing can be done with Blood as well
Grayson Brown
Can people nowadays handle a tank-control games, though?
Nicholas Martinez
Lol has Atari ever won a lawsuit?
Lucas Campbell
That's the official capcom stance, except several ex-capcom employees including Mikami have explained that it is a lie and the basis was AITD all along. Capcom pretended otherwise to avoid litigation and were afraid enough that they supposedly eventually paid an undisclosed sum to Infogrames to keep them quiet
Logan Anderson
why is that, nip companies too proud to admit they took inspiration from baka gaijins?
>Fred gets loads of money from Atari banking on his and his team's baby for decades >use it to make LBA3
Jayden Rogers
Here's hoping. I still don't understand why didn't he kickstart it or something. I think I read somewhere that he mentioned that he didn't want to kickstart it because he didn't like this kind of business, but he did kickstart 2dark so...
Ian Stewart
>linking to obnoxious youtube cancer I'm afraid the only thing terrible here is your taste. Hopefully you're just a pre-teen and you'll look back in shame at how retarded you were once.
Carson Cook
It just didn't age well. The first 3 games were incredible back then, there were no other games like it.
3 is still pretty good IMO though.
Ethan Price
>I'm afraid the only thing terrible here is your taste. Hopefully you're just a pre-teen and you'll look back in shame at how retarded you were once.
Ian Turner
This is a +18 website.
Blake Russell
Did you even read his post, retard?
Joshua Nelson
Atari is a very small company right now with a lot of IP assets. They have money but not people or products. The Atari that published Ghostbusters and Riddick doesn't really exist anymore.
Henry Ramirez
Do they have that many? I was just browsing the shit they sell, the most "famous" IPs seem to be Blood, which is relative obscure, then Alone in the Dark and the most known is probably Rollercoaster Tycoon. What else do they have, Pitfall? hey might be sitting on top of some good dead franchises I guess.
Kayden Thompson
>Judging a 20 years old game like a modern one. that no make sense, the game was a novelty in his time. obviosly it has his flaws...
Cooper Murphy
Normies cant. But normies is the market in the west.
They want fast games.
Robert Reed
Mobile games are the biggest market in japan and the main focus of most publishers in japan.
Anthony Gonzalez
Things might change. Despite having some shootan, Alien: Isolation had some interesting elements to it, the stealth at the highest difficulty levels required was an interesting concept.
Also Frictional Games titles are much slower paced and don't contain action, unless you count Penumbra 1's shitty combat.
I think slowly slower paced games are climbing back to relevance. Most of the market is fast paced action, yeah.
>mfw some people complained that Isolation was slower and you go around exploring and opening doors
Noah Clark
I sure hope so. My top fear for RE2's remake is that they completely revamp it into a modernized spooky shooter instead of making it closer to what REmake was like.
Gavin Hernandez
I remember my dad playing the first Alone in the Dark, its atmosphere was scary as fuck. I see AitD videos and there's some smart shit in it. Dem loud footsteps and shit, the game nails it in many regards.
I visit the magicball network forums, they have good info on LBA and Fred's team.
Supposedly Fred said he really really doesn't want to use kickstarters for it, and would rather go with a publishing deal I think.
Also I think it's due to budget and not dislike of crowdfunding. I assume LBA3 would cost quite some money, voice acting and all that jazz, a fully 3D world that is more detailed than 2Dark, that shit wouldn't be as cheap and accessible to crowdfunding as the top down horror game, I guess.
here, some concept art from Didier Chaunfray, also former Adeline
Check out littlebigadventureofficial on fagbook, they have more there
Some more LBA3(?) concept art, all this shit comes from a December 2015 fagbook post
Noah Robinson
>On June 22, 2014, Atari announced a new corporate strategy that would include a focus on "new audiences", specifically "LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube".
this guy seems like a cheap copycat of the best gamers, videogamedunkey, and urinating tree
Evan Lopez
Hopefully they get fucked in the ass by this lawsuit, then.
Asher Carter
I never really cared about Atari, their consoles were shit and gave me pixel nightmares, arcade was the real experience anyway, hopefuly this'll deal the killing blow.
Hunter James
>"youtuber" >it's another angry game reviewer meme persona >someone out there watches 30+minutes of this garbage
Sebastian Walker
...
Lincoln Ortiz
Bob Ombs confirmed
Ayden Reyes
also just found a recent speedrun of LBA1 with Fred and Didier Chanfray, it's a bit of a mess because only part of it was translated via live stream chat message, but still funny to see their reaction once the guy playing starts glitching his way to bypass the game
