Different laws may apply world wide. Ie: in Europe is not about the publication date, but author life-span (author’s works get in public domain 70 years it’s death: TinTin gets in PD in EU in the 2054)
Ugly Popeye and ugly Tintin. In the US specifically. A lot of these public domain announcements tend to be a bit too vague.
I’d be interested in a Tintin game more than Popeye, personally.
I’m not sure what that would look like, frankly. I guess you could go for a narrative Telltale-style thing? Making an Uncharted game with a Tintin skin would be missing the point. And you´d have to come up with almost entirely new story ideas anyway, the only story in the public domain in the US is the original version of In the Land of the Soviets.
But hey, I would have said the same thing about Indiana Jones and there it is, so… maybe somebody has a clearer picture in their heads than I do. I genuinely doubt the license was what kept something like this from happening, though.
Maybe more of a mystery story? Just take the “investigative reporter” angle and run with it.
Popeye might lend itself nicely to a cuphead like game.
Was Popeye’s spinach the first catch-trope powerup?
Rules are consistent with the Pac-man powerup
Does this mean we can freely distribute Tintin in Thailand now? Outstanding piece, everyone should read it!
I don’t think so, since a lot of the content in that one is from late tintin stories.
This would only be the first Tintin story, and the contents therein, that are free use… Which would be what, land of Soviets, Congo, America?
Soviets. And that early version of Tintin is rough.
Still funny though, almost Monty Python-esque at times.
Yea, god they are hellishly racist. Still love them as a product of their time.
