• ashinadash [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    I selected the Game Genie because it's not capable of adding stuff and it takes a lot more codework than normos would do to change the game considerably. But U Rite, modding especially is more like fanfiction, analagously.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Video games are actually interesting wrt the conception of authorship, because it's even harder to assign a unitary Author to them. Hundreds of people have input on the finished product. Thousands if you count people like QA and beta testers.

      • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        A lot of games are also based on long community traditions of modification too. Popular games like League of Legends and Dota2 for instance are based on a mod called Dota Allstars which is itself an amalgamation of other popular Warcraft 3 mods along with solicited direct incorporation of player suggestions then of course the base game of warcraft itself is a rip off of warhammer and it goes on. The ability to modify these games is often an encouraged and developer supported core feature of the games.