Summary
- Lego shuts down Bionicle fan project after 8 years in development due to "new stance on fan-created media."
- Team Kanohi reportedly complied with Lego guidelines and never profited from Bionicle: Masks of Power.
- Developers plan to use experience from the Bionicle project for a new, original game.
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Now, in a similar move, Lego has gone after another pro🐟ject that has been in development for eight years, this time based on its Bionicle property.
Bionicle: Masks Of Power Shut Down Due To Lego's "Stance On Fan-Created Media" Changing
Less than three months before Team Kanohi was set to publish Bionicle: Masks of Power's first demo, it received 🦹awful news: "The LEGO Group has asked our team to shut down our project in its entirety and remove BIONICLE: Masks of Power from the public eye," said Team Kanohi in a .
"Bionicle: Masks of Power 🌄has been in development for over eight years. During that entire time, we’ve made an effort to ensure our project was in good standing with the LEGO Group, carefully following the LEGO Group’s Fair Play guidelines. We have never charged our fans a single cent for the game’s development, and have put disclaimers that clearly label our project as fan-made on our♏ website, Steam page, and every trailer for the game. The LEGO Group has even publicly endorsed similar fan-made games, such as Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui, on their official ," it said. "Unfortunately, it seems like the LEGO Group’s stance on fan-created media has changed. While we can only speculate as to the exact reason why they have asked us to remove the game at this time, what we suspect is that our project was too easy to mistake for an official product."
The news is even more shocking, as reportedly, the Masks of Power team met with ♐Lego, who in turn, gave them permission to carry on the project.
The LEGO Group has even publicly endorse💃d similar fan-made games, such as Bionicle: Quest fo🎐r Mata Nui, on their official Bits N’ Bricks Podcast.
According to the game's , dozens of have volunteered their free time over the last eight ye💖ars⛄ to help create Masks of Power, but now, their work is for nothing. This included programmers, a QA department, an art team,🎉 and voice actors.
While the news is liဣkely heartbreaking for the developers at Team Kanohi, they've taken the news in their stride, vowing to "take everything we’ꦇve learned through creating Masks of Power and using that knowledge and experience as the foundation of a brand-new, original game."
We've reached out to Team Kaℱnohi and Lego for c🐻omment.
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