Duke Nukem:Annihilation is fan made game as tribute to Duke Nukem franchise, game is set in altrenative history and is not connected with any games in original franchise. Game is published by “Red Line with collaboration and help from Angry Pie”
and it will be uploaded as free download
All reserved rights goes to Gearbox and 3D Realms
Release Date: TBA
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You might get shut down. The developers of the original Duke Nukem game won’t care if it’s a fan tribute game or not. It’s all about saving intellectual property rights.
all reserved rights of duke goes to Gearbox and 3D Realms, what we are doing is small indie game as tribute to Duke Nukem, we won’t sell it or make any money out of it. Its like making tribute video expect we are doing a video game and its pretty big project
Could indeed be fun. Most probably more than the original but they even stopped a small hl2 mod. Might be that stopping it was just the dumb idea of a 3D Realm lawyers, thinking they would somehow compete with the “upcoming” (lol) Forever.
I wouldn’t try it anyway.
Agree with others - Might be good to get their blessing early on rather than face trouble later. It’s possible they’ll be nice if you approach them first rather than them finding out about it later.
Otherwise looks interesting! I’ll wait to see what your take on Duke is. I was always surprised they went with the traditional girls, guns and one liners with Duke as there seems a lot of comedy opportunity in him resisting his base urges in situations and trying to be a better person! Just my thoughts of course
I like the idea, as I found that the developers of duke nukem (in development) forever let their fans down hard. Then I felt that 2k games didn’t give a rat’s @$$ about it either so they didn’t put that much effort in other than slapping their name on a already put together project.
As for the copyright/rights issues, worse come to worse you could always make it a duke nukem (style) game with knock off names.
Are you sure ? Maybe we are talking about different mods. I know of a mobile version that was done officially for 3DRealms by MachineWorks Northwest. The stopped half life fan mod recreated parts of the early forever trailer and Realms official statement seamed very clear about it.
You still can get shutdown if it’s free. Because your game could divert attention from Duke Nukem games. Which would cause sales loss for gearbox/3d realms. Many games have been shutdown in the past, you better off making your own unique characters.
I would really love to see a good duke nukem game again, but unfortunately, most people replying in the thread are right, your game might get shutdown for IP violation
i love fan games but the harsh reality is 3d realms is strict and its happened before maybe sending them an email with your plans to get approval to do so anyway good luck
First of all thank you for your support. For now we can only work and se what will happen, we are also working on contacting gearbox. I will let you know more later on
I’d love to see something Duke related, I started off my videogame development days making Duke Nukem 3D user maps- would be nice to see something that resembles the original but has an air of modernity. Do be careful though, if you research the Duke Nukem : Reloaded project; they seemed to have disagreement with Gearbox after they got permission since they may not be able to release the game after completion. I’m not sure if that’s the exact case as the reasons given are a tad vague.
