I suspect they would've hated the game a lot less otherwise!ĭarker is a very atmospheric spaceflight simulator that, ironically, pays too much attention to atmosphere at the expense of playability.
It's pretty funny how Underdogs clearly wasn't aware that a map even existed when they wrote their review. This system seems like a form of copy protection, but the map doesn't have any photocopying countermeasures so it's rather unsophisticated for a 1995 game. The city is huge and there are no in-game objective markers, just a compass and current coordinate indicator mission briefings and in-game comms use names of landmarks and suburbs to refer to objective locations, which can then be looked up on the map to find their grid reference. The thing is, the game originally came packaged with a map of the city in which all gameplay takes place if you don't have the map, it's pretty much impossible to play. The drama continues.Got this comment from Janet, who sent the game map:ĭarker is a game that I don't think many people care about, but I played it a lot when I was a kid so it has a special home in the back of my brain. Nexon, on the other hand, stands by its argument that the game concept and execution were stolen from them.Īt this point, all we can do is continue to wait on both the Korean courts for a ruling and now Valve to see if the Ironmace argument changes their minds at all. That last part is, at this point, up to a South Korean court to decide.ĭark and Darker lawyers and devs continue to argue that the only similarities between the two games are those of usual fantasy tropes, such as wizards and barbarians. "While the actual expression of plot, storyline, and characters certainly may be protectable, copyright doesn’t protect concepts."
"Nexon claims to have created 'unique concepts, genre, plot, storyline, characters, and plans for the game' - almost none of which is subject to copyright protection," the letter to Valve said. This of course is a response to Nexon's claims that Ironmace made a one-for-one recreation of a game the developers were working on a prototype of while working at Nexon. Now their lawyers are asking Valve to bring the game back to Steam.Īccording to Games Radar, Dark and Darker developer Ironmace says "Nexon's claims relate to a game that Nexon never made and which does not exist". You can imagine the issues that would arise with that. Having been removed from Steam due to legal issues with Nexon, Dark and Darker delivered its latest playtest via torrent.
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