What’s different now is that people can legally charge people when they remix the mouse. People did that for decades without the tacit approval of the U.S. Disney’s iron grip on the IP didn’t mean that people couldn’t riff, mock, and satirize the mouse. He was, at a certain point, always going to enter the public domain. Mickey Mouse couldn’t live in Disney’s house forever. For example, another infestation players will need to overcome is caused by the Mothman, inspired by the urban legend popularized in West Virginian folklore.” “However, rather than focusing on any one particular antagonist, the game will include multiple twisted versions of classic characters and urban legends. “The 1928 Steamboat Willie animation short entering the public domain has allowed us to include our own derivation of the film's starring character in our game, which fits perfectly as an antagonist causing an infestation,” it said. Nightmare Forge told Motherboard the game wouldn’t, strictly, be about Mickey Mouse. “We apologize for our ignorance on this and appreciate that this was brought to our attention so we could address it ASAP!” “Unfortunately, we were unaware of any additional meaning the number ‘88 has,” the developers said on its Discord server. Nightmare Forge Games has since changed the name of Infestation 88 to Infestation: Origins and updated its Steam page. Should there still be concerns, we’re open to changing the game’s name.” We are in the process of revising this artwork to clarify the abbreviation, as shown in the image below. “Therefore, the 88 strictly represents the year 1988 no additional connotations are intended. “Our game is set in the 1980s, with the year 1988 being chosen simply for its symmetrical design in our game’s artwork,” it said. The number 88 is a well known neo-Nazi symbol, although Nightmare Forge Games told Kotaku it wasn’t aware of that. “Given this was an initial announcement trailer, and due to time constraints, we did utilize a premium version of Elevenlabs AI as a placeholder until we hire real voice actors for the actual in-game voice narrations,” it said. Nightmare Forge Said it used a premium version of the service but it planned to hire real voice actors in the future. Infestation 88’s voice-over is just 325 characters, and it sounds a lot like the ElevenLabs voice named “Clyde.” If your text block is under 333 characters, you can use the service for free. Users pick a style in a drown down menu, type in their dialogue, and get a reading of it within seconds. ElevenLabs is a text-to-speech service that allows anyone to type in a small bit of dialogue and churn out voice lines for free. The voice-over also seems to be made using AI, rather than by hiring voice actors. “However, there is a lot of work going into this project that we’re hopeful will be evident upon release.” “As an indie studio, we do rely on some purchased assets from the Unreal and Unity stores,” Nightmare Forge Games told Motherboard.

The smaller rats appear to come from one of the many packs of cheap rats available in the store. Its giant rat monster looks a lot like this WereRat. A quick search through the asset store turned up some objects that look remarkably similar to what’s in the Infestation 88 trailer. Shovelware games are built quickly and cheaply using purchasable assets from places like the Unity store. Infestation 88 bears the hallmarks of so-called “shovelware,” or an asset flip. “We’re choosing not to disclose our identities at this time for the sake of maintaining privacy,” the company said in an email. Nightmare Forge Games told Motherboard that it’s keeping their identities secret because of the large amount of attention they’ve received. Nightmare Forge Game’s website is barebones, but the company describes itself as “a team of industry veterans who have specialized in creating horror games since 2010.” Infestation 88 fits right into this mold. Last year gave us Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, the low budget horror film based on the famous sweet toothed cartoon bear, and a similar Mickey-based horror film is slated for this year. This kind of thing was inevitable-a beloved character’s entrance into the public domain is always met with a wash of low-effort remixes. The trailer includes strange pulsing nests, lots of rats, and a nightmarish version of Steamboat-era Mickey. It’s set in the year 1988 and you play as a member of a team of exterminators called out to treat a mysterious infestation. Infestation 88’s Steam page bills the game as a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players.

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