So I just PM'd travis on scorehero

[astroman]

I asked him for the source. Has anyone done this already? I'm guessing that someone has, but I was just wondering what I should expect, besides being banned from ScoreHero.

[dgrams2000]

Can someone explain in a paragraph what all went down with "Travis" (I don't know who travis is....)

I think I ran into a 40,000 page thread one time where GZ was the main topic of discussion and was ultimately closed at the end because of the project being dead, but I dont think I read pages 3 through 39,999.

Can someone abridge the story?

[chodedildo]

dgrams2000 said:

Can someone explain in a paragraph what all went down with "Travis" (I don't know who travis is....)

I think I ran into a 40,000 page thread one time where GZ was the main topic of discussion and was ultimately closed at the end because of the project being dead, but I dont think I read pages 3 through 39,999.

Can someone abridge the story?

In a nutshell, Travis spent a long time developing GZ, and released an Alpha awhile back. When Kotaku got wind of this, they wrote an article on it, basically bashing the game, saying that it was a complete rip off of Guitar Hero. Travis was worried that Harmonix might get pissed off and claim copyright infringement, so he decided to pull the plug on the release. So, you can partially thank the ignorant fucks at Kotaku for ruining a great game.

Oh, and to astroman, I'm sure many people have tried, but I doubt he'll release the source...we can only hope though.

[kilerg]

Maybe, but we'd have to get "permission" from the guys who make Guitar Hero, and that would be a pain in the [censored] to do. I don't think anyone has the guts to ask those guys if we can make Guitar Zero, and then ask Travis for the source code...again. If someone wants to try it, go ahead, it's fine, just as long as you succeed. The only problem is that if they do go and try to get us for copyright infringement, ummm, who's going to take the blame and everything? Travis can get out clean, but we have the game posted everywhere and stuff, and it will be illegal to make this forum and everything that came with it.

[astroman]

The reason travis stopped had nothing to do with copyrights, it was internet drama over the kotaku article. and he never responded to my pm anyway, i dont think he's active on score hero any more

[craysh]

Well, his email is [e-mail]

[grimmy]

if you guys want me to ask harmonix something,tell me.theyre under my friends list on my myspace.

[zerolover]

Just a suggestion. I personally - would not contact Harmonix. They are a corporation. corporations only care about their bottomline A.K.A $$$ Money and shareholders. They don't give a sh*t about GZ. All that will do is draw negative attention to this cool little grass roots homebrew movement. But what the hell do I know anyways