Guild Wars 2

Can anyone shed some light on this? >.>

It’s for a new thing in Rata Sum. A platforming game that homages 8-bit video games of the 1980s. Leave it to the asura to make something like that. You need special tokens to play it, though. I think you get them from chests?

Yup, you get Continue Tokens from jumping puzzle chests. More info is on the GW2 Wiki.

And this is where I will spend my life….

Ohhhhh I think I’ll actually do a couple of big world events now…I’ll probably suck at the minigame, but it does sound like fun

It’s still in doubt if was an April’s fool joke. Also wondering if those 8 bit games are copyrighted, clones or what. World 1, zone 3, hidden rooms, uhm…we jump.. super mario huh?

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

It’s still in doubt if was an April’s fool joke. Also wondering if those 8 bit games are copyrighted, clones or what. World 1, zone 3, hidden rooms, uhm…we jump.. super mario huh?

Under US copyright law, you can’t protect an ‘idea’ as intellectual property; you can prevent people from using your specific presentation of the idea, but that’s as far as legal protections go.

Thus, a platform-jumping plumber named ‘Mario’ is copyrightable, while the idea of a character that jumps from platform to platform isn’t.