{"id":103587,"date":"2016-09-06T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103587"},"modified":"2016-09-06T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:21:57","slug":"why-fan-made-game-no-marios-sky-was-taken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/103587-why-fan-made-game-no-marios-sky-was-taken-down","title":{"rendered":"Why fan-made game No Mario&#8217;s Sky was taken down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month indie developers ASMB Games released No Mario&#8217;s Sky a clever parody that combined the aesthetics of Hello Games&#8217; No Man&#8217;s Sky and the platforming gameplay of the Mario games.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the fun police at Nintendo were quick to issue a takedown notice to ASMB for their unauthorised use of the Mario character.<\/p>\n<p>The game seemed dead and buried, with the following statement released on the ASMB website:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to a copyright claim by Nintendo we&#8217;ve had to take the game down,&#8221; developer ASMB Games <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/asmb.itch.io\/no-marios-sky\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks everyone for playing and enjoying our little fan game. We would love to see an official Nintendo game in this style &#8211; a Mario Galaxy-style game in 2D within a procedurally-generated universe. No Mario&#8217;s Sky is no more-io!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We thought that was the end\u00a0until the game re-released under a new name, DMCA&#8217;s sky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Help Spaceman Finn search for Princess Mango in an infinite universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Featuring crazy Moombas, an Infinite Universe, muscle, amazing physics and a radical space ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">In other\u00a0news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Secret tips to get the most out of your ADSL and fibre line from South Africa\u2019s top ADSL experts\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/103001-secret-tips-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-adsl-and-fibre-line-from-south-africas-top-adsl-experts.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Secret tips to get the most out of your ADSL and fibre line from South Africa\u2019s top ADSL experts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to More developers are working on Cyberpunk 2077 than the Witcher 3 at its peak\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103525-more-developers-are-working-on-cyberpunk-2077-than-the-witcher-3-at-its-peak.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">More developers are working on Cyberpunk 2077 than the Witcher 3 at its peak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Red Dead Redemption Remastered coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC in 2017: report\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103513-red-dead-redemption-remastered-coming-to-xbox-one-ps4-and-pc-in-2017-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Red Dead Redemption Remastered coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC in 2017: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How this tiny indie developer got in a whole lot of trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,21771,323,9083,18509],"class_list":["post-103587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-dmca","tag-mario","tag-parody","tag-takedown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103591,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103587\/revisions\/103591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}