Amper Software program, the crew behind Workforce Fortress: Supply 2, and James Lambert, the dev engaged on Portal 64, have said that they’re ending growth of their fan initiatives following stop and desist calls for from Valve.

Workforce Fortress: Supply 2 was a fan challenge aiming to port Valve’s 2007 multiplayer shooter, Workforce Fortress 2, over to the newer Supply 2 engine. Whereas the crew had paused growth in September, they have been hoping to renew in some unspecified time in the future, however the DMCA has made that pause everlasting.

In the meantime, Portal 64 is a challenge meant to demake 2007’s Portal to run on the Nintendo 64 {hardware}. Only a few days in the past, the developer was celebrating the discharge of the sport’s “First Slice,” which demonstrated the sport’s progress.

The Workforce Fortress: Supply 2 takedown appears moderately comprehensible since Valve nonetheless helps Workforce Fortress 2 and will sooner or later need to port it or create a sequel themselves. The DMCA posted on the public GitHub web page cites that their causes are resulting from Valve’s personal property being utilized in a challenge, although that hasn’t stopped another fan video games primarily based on their properties from being revealed and even offered on Steam.

In the meantime, James Lambert says that Valve has said that they’ve requested Portal 64 to be taken down as a result of “the challenge is determined by Nintendo’s proprietary libraries.”

That is considerably stunning since Valve has lengthy supported fan endeavors primarily based on their video games, going so far as permitting them to be offered as retail merchandise on Steam. Both this demonstrates a shift within the firm’s coverage towards such initiatives, or they really have affordable issues towards these specific initiatives. Both manner, it’s not a terrific look instantly after their introduced shift on their storefront insurance policies with reference to AI.