5 weird uses of public domain on gaming

Well, how am I gonna go ahead if I don't mention Knights of the Round every few posts? As my Game jam aproaches, I think more on these stories and characters that so influenced the gaming landscape. Sure, some like Castlevania and God of war do the obvious and pull familiar names...

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Wednesday Adams vs NOTHING.

 The Addams Family are 76 years old. From the day the first comic strip by Charles Addams was inked, it was fated to be a big hit.  While my first instinct is to say that the concept of a lurid undead family has proven malleable, the truth in this case is that it's just funny, in the right...

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Play me a song, you're the chiptune man...

  In a few years, it'll be 28 years since 1995. According to copyright laws long since bulldozed, at this time we'd be having videogames for the Nes, Snes, and Sega Genesis enter the public domain. It's funny to imagine what a world would be like if 99% of all videogames would become public...

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Walt Disney vs The Public Domain

Now, Uncle Walt! Close the gate! Don't let them get to me! Walt Disney. Once a man. Long since dead. Walt Disney certainly understood the power of the public domain. While he certainly invented some great characters, he didn't  burn the midnight oil trying to figure out what his next...

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