American McGee says they were "emotionally quite destroyed" by EA canceling Alice Asylum, and now they can't touch the IP "for the rest of [their] life
American McGee says they were "emotionally quite destroyed" by EA canceling Alice Asylum, and now they can't touch the IP "for the rest of [their] life
The developer has asked fans to "move on" from Alice Asylum
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If you want, creative independence, then don’t merge with a mega corporation.
The original was released by EA over 20 years ago. It's not like its something they bought up.
Ah they nailed him with a noncompete for that public domain IP. Crafty.
For what it’s worth, you can’t use public domain to make a copy of someone else’s take on that public domain character. It’s like how Winnie the Pooh is public domain but you can’t make a Winnie the Pooh with a red shirt and no pants since thats clearly Disney’s version which isn’t public domain.
I enjoyed Madness Returns but the main problem was that some of the chapters just dragged so much. If they’d cut it down they could have made a really really good budget game and nothing of value would have been lost. It’s a 14 hour game with 6 hours of content.
Well hopefully American McGee will make a come back with some other great video game series. There are plenty of ideas out there outside of Alice in Wonderland. Though that was a great game! I hope he doesn’t give up quite yet.
Didn't he announce his retirement back in April?
"Also, there's a tv series in production."
Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it.
I’d rather have the property say dead than reviving it into another fucking show that is put out just to cash in on some nostalgia only to be cancelled after the first season.
I replay madness returns every year or so. Such a fun platformer.
I keep trying to play it, but the levels are so fucking long. I just want the story now.
It's one of the games that I've been meaning to play on my backlog. It does suck that it's not going to have a sequel.
I loved the Alice games, they were so well done.
That sucks, I would have loved to see Asylum come to the surface. Sadly as it's been so many years I don't think it's going to get around to much that it's no longer happening or was happening in the first place.