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Pacman a Boxing Icon

Author: 
creek23
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 07:26
Art Type: 
2D Art
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smack
Platformer
side scroller
side view
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Character
chibi
cartoon
Philippines
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This is my rendition of Manny Pacquiao -- aka Pacman -- a famous boxer, based on a Manny Pacquiao toy. 

If you prefer separate files for each frame/tile, get it from:

http://svn.konsolscript.org/viewvc/konsolscript/smack/char/pacman/

Other characters are on this link: http://opengameart.org/content/smack-game-sprites

File(s): 
pacman_from_philippines.png pacman_from_philippines.png 92.8 Kb [1309 download(s)]
pacman.svg pacman.svg 347.9 Kb [875 download(s)]
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Charlie
joined 11 years 6 months ago
11/22/2011 - 07:52

Hah that is brilliant.

Could you make a Juan Manuel Marquez and/or Floyd Mayweather equivalents? Then somebody could make a game featuring them!

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Redshrike
joined 11 years 7 months ago
11/22/2011 - 08:23
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Hmm...  I'm pretty sure that you'd run into legal issues if you tried to actually attach a famous name to that vector face.  But it is well done, and of course without the name attached there's nothing problematic.

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creek23
joined 10 years 7 months ago
11/22/2011 - 17:52
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@Charlie: Well, I'm not really good at capturing a face of a person and put it into a drawing.  If not for the Manny Pacquiao toy, I would not have properly captured his face.  Sadly, there's no Juan Manuel Marquez and/or Floyd Mayweather toys that I'm aware of.

@Redshrike: I did this thinking it was alright but looking at Plants vs Zombie, it seems they had a problem with the Michael Jackson zombie.  If one will have to make a non-commercial Fan game like what most mocking Flash games do, I guess there's no legal harm -- I guess I can leave this game sprite for others to use on their Fan games.  Meanwhile, I'll try to contact Manny Pacquiao's staff for legal use of the vector.

~creek23

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undesired
joined 10 years 2 days ago
11/22/2011 - 18:24

Not only the likeness is a problem but the trademark behind the name as well can raise issues.

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creek23
joined 10 years 7 months ago
11/22/2011 - 19:05
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Not really sure if Manny Pacquiao owns the trademark for "Pacman" -- given he borrowed it to more popular Pacman game.  If he got away with it, I guess I could get away with it either.  I believe the only problem here is his likeness on the character.

~creek23

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undesired
joined 10 years 2 days ago
11/22/2011 - 19:56

He's allowed as a real-life boxer's handle isn't video games. Trademarks can be registered to specific things.

Since you're putting the name "Pacman" in a video game, this gives NAMCOT the opportune grounds to take action, since that's a registered trademark that applies to video games. You don't want that.

 

I hate trademarks myself, it is why I can't even mention the word Qu?ke in descriptions of my game nor can I mention the name of the engine I use, beyond "modified id Tech 3" (it's really ioq3 but its logo and name are legally questionable)

 

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creek23
joined 10 years 7 months ago
11/22/2011 - 20:16
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Well, given that this vector image Pacman does not have any similarity to the circular, no legs, no arms, yellow character and the intended game play is not pellet-eating.  I don't think it is going to be a problem.  Unless NAMCO sends DMCA, and Manny Pacquiao staff rejected the inclusion of this character to the game, there's nothing to be paranoid about -- this little boxing fellow will be included in Smack.

Btw, this other coder got DMCA from NAMCO after he replicated the Pacman game. (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102542-Namco-Shuts-Down-Students-Pac-Man-Project)

~creek23

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