Man, some crazy blown out of proportion bad energy going around here. Cleary mistakes were mades on both ends. Here's the timeline as I see it with errors made pointed out.
1. phvic release Demons of Dex for VIC-20, puts source code on Github (
ERROR: Why put the source online for everyone to grab if against ports/code re-use by others)
2. Hokuto Force finds game and likes it
3. Hokuto Force contacts author on Google Plus (
ERROR: Why not here on Denial in the original thread were the game originated and the author is posting?)
4. phvic answes on Google Plus "How may I help you?" (
ERROR: If you reply and write this the other party may expect a response. If you don't check Google Plus regularly say something like: Oh, I am not on Google Plus often, please contact me by email/on Denial)
5. Hokotu Force replies by mentioning C64 port, but get's no response (
ERROR: assuming a port is OK with the author since no reply received.
ERROR: Not replying to this, explaining how you'd like to be credited.)
6. Game is released on CSDB and announced on Lemon (
ERROR: The announcement post on Lemon does not mention the original VIC-20 game at all.
And here we go with a new game called Demons of Dex, done
by Digital Monastery the internal game label of Hokuto Force.
All the work was done by Qzerow and Snabel.... Happy dungeon crawling
Now this really is bad style. It makes it look like the game was done by Digitial Monastery and "all the work" by some other guys. It would have been easy to word it just a little different to make it ok, e.g.:
And here we go with a new game called Demons of Dex,
ported and expanded from phvic's original VIC-20 game by Digital Monastery the internal game label of Hokuto Force. All the work
on this expanded port was done by Qzerow and Snabel.... Happy dungeon crawling
While the game itself has original credits on the title screen "Original code: Petri" they are only in third place, not mentioning his full name or that the whole game was his idea. While phvic's credits are mentioned elsewhere like in the manual, they are not too easy to see. In my opionion phvic made a good offer in this post:
http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... =15#p89333
Not too big a change I'd say.
BIGGEST ERROR: Getting angry/defensive about this issue. This is supposed to be
fun. In real-life you'd sit down, have a beer and sort this thing out before the bottle is empty...
Edit: Clarified visibility of original credits