Spawn point prints a press release from a new UK development studio (Floating Point Studios) asking the community for help with a securing a grant:
"Floating Point Studios Limited is proud to announce that we have been presented with a conditional grant offer from KEF (the Knowledge Exploitation Fund). KEF is currently undergoing several large changes and as a result of this a significant amount of recent applications for grants have been refused, making this conditional offer to Floating Point Studios even more important. However because this offer is conditional the studio has to satisfy several criteria specified by KEF within three months of the offer in order to receive the grant. We at Floating Point Studios are going to need your help, the help of the gaming community and the games industry to aid us in satisfying the specified criteria."
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
The Montreal-based team behind March of Giants joins Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 MOBA game where players take on the role of giant combatants.
