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Felix the Cat, the new playable character announced alongside the Kickstarter campaign for the game's story mode DLC RULE of Inverse Ninjas, was decided through a Twitter poll. The other three characters on the poll were The Continental Op (a private investigator character created by Dashiell Hammett in 1923 whose copyright expired in 2019), Gnorm Gnat (an insect character created by Jim Davis prior to Garfield who entered the public domain as a result of his original comics not having a copyright notice), and Tarcis the Lover (a joke slot seemingly originating from a dating simulator made by this game's co-developer Trainwreck Studios, and that voting for was actively discouraged by the developers).
Twitter poll and joke slot discouragement:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1769566363029500056
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1769566860343964112
Kickstarter link featuring Felix announcement:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/herosoftgames/rule-of-inverse-ninjas-inverse-ninjas-story-mode
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1769566363029500056
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1769566860343964112
Kickstarter link featuring Felix announcement:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/herosoftgames/rule-of-inverse-ninjas-inverse-ninjas-story-mode
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Thread going into the game's thought process with its use of Mickey:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1737544342091502015
Early release tweet:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1741694161110343753
Quote source:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1739835557017170070
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1737544342091502015
Early release tweet:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1741694161110343753
Quote source:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1739835557017170070
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According to the game's official Twitter account, the developers claimed that the only characters they would not add to the game if they became, or were discovered to secretly be, public domain were Calvin and Hobbes from the comic strip of the same name. While the characters are still copyrighted thereby ruling them out, the reasoning for refusing to consider them was out of respect for creator Bill Watterson and his refusal to license the comics for merchandise despite their popularity, feeling that it would go against the strip's ideals and ruin its authenticity.
On Calvin and Hobbes not being added:
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1754647278663729244
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1754648044111638534
Bill Watterson interview:
https://www.tcj.com/the-bill-watterson-interview/
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1754647278663729244
https://twitter.com/InverseNinjas/status/1754648044111638534
Bill Watterson interview:
https://www.tcj.com/the-bill-watterson-interview/
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