Raven Software expresses their grief in the best way possible.
“Raven is sad to hear about the closing of LucasArts today, we respected them and enjoyed working with them over the years,” said the studio, in a statement sent to Kotaku Australia. “We wish the best for all the talented people who were let go and hope they find good work in studios in the industry.
“We loved and appreciated the experience of getting to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy for LucasArts. As a gift to the persistently loyal fanbase for our Jedi games and in memory of LucasArts, we are releasing the source code for both games for people to enjoy and play with.
Source: Kotaku
black_sheep
I was actually quite surprised when a developer who is working on the "Disney Infinity" project said that how it be his dream if you could plug in a Guybrush Threepwood character and see him interact with Jack Sparrow. It's safe to say that they are aware, the question is how aware are they?[/quote
Disney is a huge company, the chances that there are employees who are fond of LucasArts IPs, shouldn't be rare at all. Aside from the fact that I'm not thrilled with a guy not only having sunglasses inside an office, but also wearing on his forehead, wishing to make a Guybrush Threepwood game, that should be a good thing. I was mostly referring to Disney not being aware someone is posting source code of one of their games.
valkian
I'm inclined to believe that Disney owns EVERYTHING that LucasArts has made, including source code, concept art, design documents and whatnot. My guess though, they won't even notice.
I was actually quite surprised when a developer who is working on the "Disney Infinity" project said that how it be his dream if you could plug in a Guybrush Threepwood character and see him interact with Jack Sparrow. It's safe to say that they are aware, the question is how aware are they?
Here is the link to the interview on youtube, he says it at the 9:20 mark
Fearless Flying Monkey
If LA wouldn't let them release it before, why is it OK for it to be released now? Won't Disney sue them?
Honestly, I have no idea what the legalities are of this.