Gaming Glover 2 was just a big hoax, what a surprise!

[SimonMKWii]

I'm sure everyone is extremely shocked to learn that both the Glover 2 project and Golden Mushroom Studio are complete bullshit!

There have been no updates for nearly a week, and both their website and twitter account are gone:

http://www.golden-mushroom.com/
https://twitter.com/GMS_GER

My question is, how did this even start, and what did they achieve with this?

 

[sarkwalvein]

For me "Glover 2" sounded as alien and irrelevant as probably "Gridder 2" may sound to you.

So I would vote for "Didn't give a fuck", like if someone told me "did you really believe McD was going to put an extra slice of tomato into their Big Macs"... erm... I thought Big Macs didn't have tomato at all, but who cares?

PS: Also, Gridder, a "classic" for the C64.

 

[Bladexdsl]

one less shitty game for the switch there's enough already

 

[DarthDub]

This has to be fake and Night Trap has to be real? Ugh I hate reality.

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

Glover was a underrated game.
I really liked it when I was younger and I think about replaying it.
I wish Glover 2 was real ;-;

 

[DarthDub]

Glover was a underrated game.
I really liked it when I was younger and I think about replaying it.
I wish Glover 2 was real ;-;

There's two prototypes out there on the internet. I like how it parodied Banjo Kazooie with the fat bird saying fart noises.

 

[xXDungeon_CrawlerXx]

There's two prototypes out there on the internet. I like how it parodied Banjo Kazooie with the fat bird saying fart noises.

(1:50min)

 

[SimonMKWii]

There's two prototypes out there on the internet. I like how it parodied Banjo Kazooie with the fat bird saying fart noises.

Wait, there's a bird saying fart noises?
Okay, well now I'm happy this was never released.

 

[Bimmel]

*puts on glove*
*points at the hoax*

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

 

[tech3475]

If it's a fake, I hope that's not they're real information in the whois for the website.

Wait, there's a bird saying fart noises?
Okay, well now I'm happy this was never released.

And I thought the BK/BT fart noises were annoying.

 

[supergamer368]

This kinda weird stuff seems as likely as another Bubsy game (yet somehow another came out last year mind you) or basically picture this: The most obscure game from the 90’s you could possibly think of, that maybe 2 or 3 people played, getting a sequel.

 

[DarthDub]

This kinda weird stuff seems as likely as another Bubsy game (yet somehow another came out last year mind you) or basically picture this: The most obscure game from the 90’s you could possibly think of, that maybe 2 or 3 people played, getting a sequel.

Shaq Fu?

 

[Tomy Sakazaki]

tl;dr Golden Mushroom Studio started to acquire the trademark of Glover on Europe and thought it was enough to warrant the actual IP globally, however since Piko Interactive bought the actual IP they are the legit owners and amicably required that Golden Mushroom stop using the mark and likeness of Glover.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/8d4ujt/statement_regarding_glover_and_our_company/ - Golden Mushroom statement
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...ent_regarding_glover_and_our_company/dxkpk74/ - Nintendo Switch Reddit mods statement
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...ent_regarding_glover_and_our_company/dxl6t60/ - Piko Interactive Statement

 

[FAST6191]

I don't know if I would claim hoax at this point.

It sounded like someone misunderstood how copyright/intellectual property law works and thought they saw a way to do something they actually could not, but it might have been nice for them if they could; there are a thousand small indy devs doing the current trend, which seems to no longer be small child in a dark and scary world/remaking NES Mario and instead early 3d platformers, and "get yourself some positive name recognition" is and has always been a good plan. If they don't have much invested in the business name then shut it down and come back as something else is a viable option (indeed see the history of Glover's various owners for name change fun and games) if they were otherwise going to be.

That said I just checked a trademark lookup and they don't have anything registered recently for it... I probably should have done that when I was checking the old ones. I don't know if it got withdrawn

If we are going deep into cynical territory it could have been an interest gauge/sales pitch by someone (either the current owners, someone looking to fund such a game or someone looking to buy it from the owners), and it certainly went wider than I would have expected a crowdfunding campaign to achieve at this point in time (most media outlets seem to have realised they are mostly scams and incompetence and thus not worth reporting on). If getting your fan game smacked down before suddenly releasing a version without all the infringing material (or otherwise using it to boost another project) is so successful at getting press then this is a nice twist on that. I have absolutely no evidence and don't even care to go looking.

So yes I can't claim hoax and further will pull you up on your choice to go there.

 

[leerpsp]

(1:50min)

reminds me of Banjo Kazooie and conker's bad fur day.

 

[FAST6191]

reminds me of Banjo Kazooie and conker's bad fur day.

Don't most PS1/N64 platformers look the same to you?

I think it was an offhand comment in the let's play a bunch of ex Rare types did of conker's bad fur day where they mentioned about Rare's library (this was pre internet getting to be like it is today after all) having a book covering different levels, hence why all the Rare things all had similar levels.
Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFP9r6vJL2qCCERMBP_ZWUEV0vaSL4rHf
First video, can't remember exactly where it was though