Just found an odd comment posted to my talk page on the OHRRPGCE's wiki the other day. Someone apparently wants me to "give them a download" of The Kirby Lands (the old, terrible game I made back when I was in early high school) so that they can remake it.
First of all... what!? Really? Someone wants to remake The Kirby Lands, of all things?? Why? What is there in that craptastic old game that someone would see and say "yeah, I want to make my own version of this thing?" I'm confused.
Second of all... the game is freely available for download on two different sites. Was this person not able to find it, or what? Or did they mean a download of the game file without the password so they could edit it? Either way... odd.
I'm somewhat suspicious of this, for various reason. I'm also extremely hesitant about the thought of letting someone remake one of my games, especially one so heavily saturated in Nummorrian critters at TKL (even if it does only have the old versions of them I was drawing in high school.) The fact that the person's username has "Kirby" in it and their initial posting was just titled "Kirby" rather than "The Kirby Lands" or anything similar makes me suspect that they have mistaken TKL for a fangame of Nintendo's Kirby series, despite the fact that the only similarity whatsoever is that there are round things that look like Kirby in it (...yeah, they are called "Kirbys" in the game, but that's only because I never went back and fixed up the game after deciding on the name change to "K'hyurbhi" around 2003. There is no in-universe connection with Nintendo's Kirby... though one enemy, Kracko, does make a cameo appearance as a random encounter in one area.)
I'm worried that if I do let them do their own remake, suddenly everyone who's not a Numnum or Blurby will find themselves dyed pink for no good reason. "Pink Killer K'hyurbhi" is a thing that should not be (so much so that in the Mushroom Doom card game I made back in 5th-6th grade, when I randomly made the other "Kirbys" this weird dark pink color, Killer Kirby alone kept his original white color scheme.) I've already run into problems with people hurring and durring the by-now-horribly-overdone "looks like Kirby" complaint at one of my more recent games... someone else making a game where the characters actually look just like Kirby would probably just make that worse. Even worse would be the possibility of them schnorking the game around to include actual Kirby series characters, or somehow trying to fuse the two settings together into some impossible abomination. Part 2 is terrible as-is, but it'd be even worse if they tried to shoehorn Dark Matter in there in place of the generic demon final boss.
Basically... the idea of someone else using my characters just seems like a terrible idea, so it's extremely unlikely that I'd agree to it if that's what they have in mind. Supernum, Robert, Natasha, most of the bosses, and so on will have to be removed from the game or changed to someone else. Anything Nummorrian or First Nherbi in origin (Numnums, Blurbys, Beefoes, Yuckow Foods...) would have to be removed from the game or changed to something else. Even a lot of the items would need to change, since I can't have someone else making a game with Yums, Numkiller swords, shickers, and Chiba Balls!
I suppose if they just want to borrow the general "outline" of the game (three kids sent away from their families in hopes that they'll be able to beat the evil overlord type guy later, start in the northwest and travel through a cave and sewer, fight some weird guy in his house in the mountains, pass through the overthrown kingdom but before saving it go to a school and recruit some extra characters, then go save that kingdom before chasing the boss to his home in the northeastern desert... and then to another world for the should-be-final battle), I could probably go along with that... but if you need to come up with your own characters and your own enemies and everything to fill in the empty shell of someone else's game where all the parts you can't use were removed, why not just... make your own original game?
This is so weird.
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