Brunogruber said: "I just want to clarify: I do not mind people making fan games, mods, fan art, or anything like that. My only issue is using this as a platform to promote yourself based only on that. In this case, as I said earlier, the guy has sticked a picture of him and a small biography on the game’s facebook page (more than 10k likes last time I checked, because metal gear). I cannot be the only one that sees what’s wrong with that. This discussion was not intended to be about this single project, but about all the devs that are doing this kind of thing.
Also, to clarify: I am not worried of people copying my game, or any of my projects. This is entirely unrelated with any production of mine, and I’m sorry if at any moment it sounded like it was about any of my projects."
I don’t know how you could make fan games, mods and art of any half way decent quality and not get some attention. Especially of such a beloved game as MGS. You seem to have a sense of honor about gamedev and how to go about it, and that’s a great thing. But I wonder if it’s a little out-of-step with how this mega-fast game marketing super saturated industry is. Some people would sell their soul to get a leg-up on the competition. If “Shadow Moses” creators plotted this whole thing out just to get some personal attention, I still can’t come down on them. But I really think (I don’t know) that they are making something near and dear to themselves and it also something millions of others are fond of. And thus the attention. But the game will speak for itself. Eventually.