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Lego wants you to make fan games – and it may even publish them
The Lego Group – the company responsible for the colourful plastic bricks that have been used to build everything from Portal test chambers to a GTX 1660-powered gaming PC – recently unveiled a partnership with Unity, allowing fans to build Lego-based games in the process of learning game creation. Now, the company is looking at potentially publishing the best fan games that emerge from that partnership.
The Lego Microgame is a learning tool for Unity that introduces the basics of the Unity engine through pleasantly familiar Lego bricks. It’s downloadable from the Unity store, and you can use it to snap together your own Lego game with easy-to-use, ready-made assets.
So, while the game producer contacted members of the press to ask for the brass knuckles back to be disposed of, mailing them to the Redwood Shores Calif.-based company may be itself a crime.
Brian Crecente, managing editor of video game news site Kotaku, is one reviewer who received the shiny, jaw-busting pugilist accessory. He hasn t received any package to return the item in, nor much in the way of explanation. We’re still waiting to hear back from EA on whether it would be legal to do so, he wrote in an email. The illegality of the promotion is certainly relevant to a game that celebrates mob violence.