DMCA's Sky

DMCA's Sky
Developer(s)ASMB Games
SeriesMario (unofficial)
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux
Release
  • WW: 30 August 2016
(as No Mario's Sky)
  • WW: 5 September 2016 (as DMCA's Sky)
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

DMCA's Sky (originally released as No Mario's Sky) is a 2016 open world platform game developed by ASMB Games for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. As No Mario's Sky, it was a fangame of both Super Mario Bros. and No Man's Sky.[1][2][3]

Gameplay

DMCA's Sky combines gameplay elements of side-scrolling platform games like Super Mario Bros. and open world space exploration games like No Man's Sky.[1][2][3] The player controls an astronaut named Finn who uses a futuristic spacecraft to travel between procedurally generated planets.[4] Gameplay primarily takes place on these planets, where Finn can run, jump, and find collectibles in a similar fashion to the Super Mario series.[2]

Development

In August 2016, soon after the release of No Man's Sky, No Mario's Sky was created by ASMB Games, a team based in Australia, for Ludum Dare 36 in 72 hours.[1][5] The team consisted of Alex McDonald (art and sound director),[6] Sam Izzo, Max Cahill, and Ben Porter.[6][7]

DMCA removal and re-release

Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to Itch.io on 4 September 2016, requesting that No Mario's Sky be removed due to it infringing "Nintendo's copyrights in its Super Mario video game franchise, including but not limited to the audiovisual work, images, and fictional character depictions".[8] In response, the official page for No Mario's Sky was updated to indicate that the game was no longer available, and the downloads for the game were replaced with a link to the DMCA notice.[9] On 5 September, the game was re-released as DMCA's Sky, with all in-game elements and terms that directly referenced Super Mario replaced with non-copyrighted counterparts.[5][10]

Deep Sky

ASMB Games released a prototype called Deep Sky as a spiritual successor to the game, later stating that further development had been stalled due to lack of funding.[4][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c Robertson, Adi (30 August 2016). "No Mario's Sky is the inevitable child of Super Mario Bros. and No Man's Sky". The Verge. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b c Kamen, Matt (30 August 2016). "Mario meets No Man's Sky in this fiendishly fun fan-made game". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b Kain, Erik (31 August 2016). "'No Mario's Sky' Is Exactly As Great As It Sounds". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b "DMCA's Sky by ASMB Games". itch.io. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  5. ^ a b Donnelly, Joe (5 September 2016). "No Mario's Sky parody game blocked by Nintendo lawyers, DMCA's Sky takes its place". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  6. ^ a b McMinn, Kevin (5 September 2016). "No Mario's Sky Team Responds to Takedown Notice With DMCA's Sky". Nintendo News. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  7. ^ Prabhu, Vijay (6 September 2016). "In protest against Nintendo's legal threats, developers rename the game "No Mario's Sky" to 'DMCA's Sky'". TechWorm. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. ^ Sniffen, Brian (4 September 2016), "Takedown notice for 'No Mario's Sky'", Itch.io, retrieved 1 July 2021
  9. ^ ASMB Games, "No Mario's Sky by ASMB Games", Itch.io, archived from the original on 4 September 2016, retrieved 1 July 2021
  10. ^ Walker, Alex (5 September 2016). "No Mario's Sky Taken Down, Replaced With DMCA's Sky". Archived from the original on September 7, 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  11. ^ "Deepsky (Demo build) by cannonbreed, Max Cahill". itch.io. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
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