Publisher discrepancy for The Castle

[joeraz]

I tried to add "The Castle" to ScummVM, but when I group the games by developer, it lists the game as being published by "Ishtar Games", but when I look up the game in the online stores (and the loading screens), I find the publisher is "Point & Pixel Adventures". The icon looks a little different from the game's usual logo - not sure if this might be referring to a different game, though I looked up "Ishtar Games" and didn't find any references to The Castle on their website. I found another source earlier (but can't seem to re-find it now) that references the publisher as "Ishtar Games", but the link redirects to "Point & Pixel Adventures". Maybe there was a name change?

Also, I made a couple quick icons for "The Castle", along with Point & Pixel's other game "The Legend of Skye" if you'd like to add/update them.

[GandalfTheWhite80]

Thx for your help.

The castle: I was talking about the castle some time ago with @tag2015 (because I couldnt' fit the currently uses artwork for a higher res version I was planing to do) . Maybe you could join us for a discussion in our discord channel? scummvm/icons-and-screenshots.

The legend of skye: If we add this icon - should we credit you as joeraz in the toc.md?

[tag2015]

"Ishtar Games" and "Point and Pixel Adventures" are the same developer, as you can see on Mobygames (AKA: Ishtar Games)
In fact, in the spreadsheet that is used to generate the publisher list it was updated some time ago

but it seems the change didn't propagate, for some reason.

The icon is not official, maybe we can post a poll on discord and see the general opinion and eventually change it.

Regarding the Legend of Skye, some time ago I started a WIP icon for that title but I wasn't happy with the end result, so I didn't upload it. Honestly I'm not too fond of pixelart icons, we already have some and they don't really fit with the rest. But better that nothing I suppose

[joeraz]

I'm on Discord - go by WhiteRakogis there. Might be best to credit that name to be consistent with my previous contributions in the toc file. I don't mind either name, as long as it's consistent.

I did look up Ishtar Games, and found a separate, seemingly unrelated, company with the same name. That might have thrown me off a bit.

I can understand an aversion to the pixel art style. The challenge with that is that many modern games use that style intentionally to emulate the classics, rather than due to technical limitations of the time, so it sometimes extends to the games' official cover art.