I just want to clarify I few things regarding my last tweet about Avalanche's upcoming game Generation Zero. My personal belief is that borrowing, referencing and modifying other artists work is a very important part of art. Without it, I don't think art would exist.
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If it's done well or if it's done badly should be irrelevant - I think it's vital that it is allowed. Furthermore I don't even think it should be necessary to declare your influences - most of the time they're so many it would be impossible to do any creative work if
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you had to remember and give credit to every little influence that have crept into your work. Also, I do not in any way suggest that I should be the only artist allowed to do sci-fi set in the Swedish countryside in the 1980s. That is ridiculous.
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The only thing that bothers me about Generation Zero is simply this: Avalanche knows who I am. We live in the same town. The game director of the GZ follows me on Twitter. I've even met them and briefly worked with them and not once did they mention that they were working on a
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game set in the Swedish countryside in the late 1980s, featuring giant robots. Well okay, I guess they didn't have to say anything, but the minimally decent thing to do would have been to at least acknowledge the similarities when pointed out.
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If acknowledging that is something you're not prepared to do - fine - but then I'm sure there are other ways to do Swedish sci-fi that doesn't look confusingly similar to the Tales From The Loop books and RPG. That's all, thanks for listening.
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In a court of law, what matters is if audiences could be genuinely confused as to what is what. In this case that's absolutely true. They should at the very least acknowledge that your work is an influence, which is very obviously is
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Replying to @tactful @simonstalenhag
With the above thread, it certainly feels like plagiarism.
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