Artists collects 270,000 euros for hand-painted guides - Nintendo complains, stating the project

The talented artist Philip Summers has created a number of hand-drawn guides for various Nintendo classics in recent years and thus collected around € 270,000 via Kickstarter. That sounds like success and Nintendo does not like that.

What happened? The artist Philip Summers has been working on his heart project for a long time: a series of hand-drawn guides to several Nintendo games.

• Metroid
• Zelda
• Contra
• Ninja Gaiden

The guides should guide players in colorful comic panels through difficult missions and puzzles and disclose secrets and collective objects. But that seems to stay a dream for the time being.

Lawyers of Nintendo look again a threat to their own IPs. They threaten Summers with a lawsuit, he should not fulfill the claim in the letter of ease and do not adjust the sale of his guides. The artist knew that that can happen, but took the risk but in the hope, there would be a happy end in the end.

What danger Nintendo sees in such projects, fans ask for a long time. Financial enrichment on its own works could be an explanation. Philip Summers Kickstarter campaign (via Kickstarter.com) was able to occupy around 270,000 euros.

Summers introduces hand-drawn game guides - but hopes

The artist says: Philip Summers gives his followers to Twitter updates. Most recently, there were bad news for fans of his work. The books in which the hand-painted guides should be edged are not. Sampled, due to a threatening complaint by right owner Nintendo.

I pulled the plug for Hand-Drawn Game Guides tonight to Kickstarter. Yes, just because of the reason you believe. I had the hope that I could miss a litigation, but I did not make it. Of course I am disappointed, but I can understand why that happens, it's okay, I'm not angry.

Philip Summers, Via Twitter

Unlike buzzers, the fans of the project are very angry. Some Twitter users even threaten to cancel their pre-order of Nintendo games. Other chalks that Nintendo had no right to spoil the hand-drawn guides. Whether this is true or not, a right-hand skirt against the giant Nintendo can not finance average people.

How does it continue? For the moment, Summers has canceled all the pre-orders of the books. All Kickstarter backers also receive their donated money back. All Summers has not given up the hope yet: In the coming days, the artist wants to inform himself if he can still publish and monetize the project.

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Why is not that surprising? Nintendo is known to keep the fingers on the judge hammer. Again and again fan projects are melted rigorously and the creators or developers are bombarded with laments. These are more often about fans developed video games and less art-related art.

One of the most famous examples should be the Pokémon Fan Edition Uranium: Pokémon Uranium: After 1.5 million downloads is final - Nintendo prohibits the game