''DMCA's Sky'' (originally released as ''No Mario's Sky'') is a 2016 open world platform game developed by ASMB Games for

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, and Linux. As ''No Mario's Sky'', it was a fangame of both '' Super Mario Bros.'' and '' No Man's Sky''.

Gameplay

''DMCA's Sky'' combines gameplay elements of side-scrolling platform games like '' Super Mario Bros.'' and open world space exploration games like '' No Man's Sky''. The player controls an

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named Finn who uses a futuristic spacecraft to travel between procedurally generated planets. Gameplay primarily takes place on these planets, where Finn can run, jump, and find collectibles in a similar fashion to the ''

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'' series.

Development

In August 2016, soon after the release of ''No Man's Sky'', ''No Mario's Sky'' was created by ASMB Games, a team based in

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, for Ludum Dare 36 in 72 hours. The team consisted of Alex McDonald (art and sound director), Sam Izzo, Max Cahill, and Ben Porter.

DMCA removal and re-release

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sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice to

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on 4 September 2016, requesting that ''No Mario's Sky'' be removed due to it infringing "Nintendo's copyrights in its ''Super Mario'' video game franchise, including but not limited to the audiovisual work, images, and fictional character depictions". In response, the official page for ''No Mario's Sky'' was updated to indicate that the game was no longer available, and the downloads for the game were replaced with a link to the DMCA notice. On 5 September 2016, the game was re-released as ''DMCA's Sky'', with all in-game elements and terms that directly referenced ''Super Mario'' replaced with non-copyrighted counterparts.

''Deep Sky''

ASMB Games released a prototype called ''Deep Sky'' as a

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to the game, later stating that further development had been stalled due to lack of funding.

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