Nethack tileset eviant art update#

The dude in charge of that joint is good people. Hopefully DAS doesn't have to deal with any stupid legal stuff because of all of that. The words 'Hilton', 'Crayola' and the Mastercard logo appear as well. Everything else, items etc are original content or just plain photographs of random stuff and shouldn't be any sort of problem apart from the ocassional 'Frobozz' reference in text. (Plastic Golem is Plastic Man, Clay Golem is Gumby, a large number of monsters are the art of Tony Diterlizzi used in second edition D&D books, A Cyberdemon is the Mail Daemon, ED-209 is one of the Keystone Kops, cave man and cave woman are Charelton Heston and Linda Harrison from Planet of the Apes, the Medic From You Know Where Because That Game Was Awesome at the Time (tm) etc.)Īnyway, if you're going to use assets from Absurd, don't mess with the bipedal monsters in particular, because you're treading near copyright all the time there. I don't know how many assets in Vulture were taken from the Absurd Tileset, but I can tell you that close to half of the bipedal creatures are found art that has been altered or directly lifted images from branded materials. There was never a claim that that tileset wouldn't cause all sorts of copyright grumbles. The Absurd tileset was never intended for a commercial release, which is why the guy who made it* grabbed assets from just about everywhere without any care or thought about intellectual property as the assumption was fair use without profit.

Nethack tileset eviant art update#

The high quality update coming later this year is still ongoing and still coming and falls outside of the context of this post, that will be an additional, modern, & optional upgrade. We will be beginning work on this immediately and tile replacements will be coming during the course of other updates. This is, in fact, a large part of why Vulture made an appearance on Steam - to help fund this progressive update to even the Community Edition. We would like to thank those of you that pointed this out and encourage others to please report any images or tiles you may find within this project to us via our support lines so that we can expedite the replacement of any offending images to always been our intention to eventually replace the entire Community Edition tile collection with more consistent art, created specifically for this project. It's been pointed out to us that some of these tiles were, without our knowledge, originally taken from other sources to be used within Absurd, which we in turn, in good faith and having asked permission from the Absurd creator, then re-used within the Vulture project.Īlthough in some cases this is okay, public domain pop culture references, in other cases it's not.ĭarkArts Studios, and the Vulture team, take licenses and copyright incredibly seriously.įor this reason we will be replacing those tiles soon & will keep you updated on this thread about progress in that regard. One large update included, after having gained permission from the creator, several tiles from the Absurd Tileset.

The history of Vulture, as a project, has it's roots deep within the open source community and most tiles have been donated, from time to time, by various community members in an ever ongoing and progressive improvement of the visuals as a whole. It has been drawn to our attention that some of the tiles being used in the community edition are modified tiles from other sources.