Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves

Posted by Zonk on from the in-the-clear dept.

Via Kotaku an Inquirer article reports that, despite earlier claims to the contrary, it looks like the folks behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title are not guilty of art theft. It seems both Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use textures from a pack produced by Marlin Studios. The similarities are there because both teams used pre-canned materials for their titles, not because of any tom-foolery on the part of GSC GameWorld.

9 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. Good thing by fishybell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good thing we all jumped to conclusions.

    --
    ><));>
    1. Re:Good thing by Hsensei · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Goes with our guilty until proven innocent society, and even then your ruined for life becuase no believes your innocent.

      --
      ~
    2. Re:Good thing by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Indeed! I always find it interesting to hear about the little things that go on behind the scenes of game development. Had no one jumped to these conclusions, I never would have known about this interesting Marlin Studios.

      --
      Demented But Determined.
    3. Re:Good thing by CogDissident · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Excuse me for a moment if I quote a person of great wisdom, myself, from when this story came around the first time.

      Remember this is a Zonk story.
      It is a allegation that stalker may possibly use the same assets as are used in HL2 or D3, and an assumption that they did not pay for the rights to use these (through purchasing the same developer tools, or simply paying eachother off).

      Good ol Zonk, posting a story that is not just an assumption, but an assumption of an assumption.
  2. Damnit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    I bought all 38 copies of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. from the local Best Buy thinking it'd be a good investement.

  3. Re:In the minds of the consumer by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.

    Nah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s dark brown halls look much nicer than DOOM 3's dark brown halls.

    --
    Trolling is a art,
  4. Fantastic News! by Murrdox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a big fan of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

    The game is very original, and I see a lot of promise in this game in the way of mods, expansions, and sequels. This game is so good it made me feel like I was playing a first-person-shooter version of Fallout. In fact, I recently reinstalled Fallout, and am beating it again. If S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is good enough to remind me of such a golden age game, they must have touched on the right nerves.

    Hopefully any previously mentioned projects will take less time to develop than the game itself did! :)

    I sort of doubted the original allegations were true, and figured that some kind of licensed or public domain material must have been involved in this. Glad to hear that is in fact true.

    This developer shows promise, and it would be unfortunate if its reputation were inappropriately tarnished.

  5. Re:In the minds of the consumer by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... they're not thieves, just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.

    Yes, because games sharing the textures for some of their lamps are then all junk. :-s

    Give me aesthetically innovative lamp textures, goddammit!

    --
    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  6. Pff, so the STALKER dev team's innocent... by CaseM · · Score: 3, Funny

    But someone ought to take a good look at Marlin Studios. Apparently some of their textures were lifted straight from HL2!