I've been really, really busy at work over the past month or so and only just learned about the Arduboy announcement tonight. The scene at my dinner table tonight was rather humorous with me yelling "wtf, that's my 3d demo!!" and my wife saying "wait, why aren't you getting paid for this?"
First of all I'm glad to see they've eventually given Rodot, Gamebuino and other consoles credit where due, although it would have been nicer if they'd done it from day 1 without having others (erico?) goad them into doing it.
With regards to using our stuff without giving credit, this is a tough one. I'm a jaded, bitter and twisted old game developer and I've seen this happen so many times now it doesn't even bother me any more. I once spent 4 months porting the Lua compiler, VM and libraries to a C# project called KopiLua only to see others strip my name from the credits and upload it to GitHub with their own contact details. It's definitely one of the more unsavoury aspects of open sourcing your work but it happens all too often, which is a shame because due credit is pretty much the only reward people get for open sourcing their work and this sort of thing makes people think twice before doing it again. That said, once you put things out there into the nether nether they become very difficult to control, it's why I held back for as long as I did before open sourcing the Simbuino code. If you're doing it purely for your own ego then open source probably isn't the way to go, but I myself love the Arduino (and especially the Gamebuino) scene enough to not be too fussed about it. At least these guys seem to be trying to do the right thing...once it's been brought to their attention!
As to the device itself I wish him all the best. It's obviously not what he set out to do originally but the original design was utterly unrealistic to begin with. Instead of giving up he appears to have arrived at a compromise and it looks like a really fun little device. I welcome the switch from capacitive to tactile buttons but the lack of SD card is a deal-breaker for me as is the form factor; if I want a tiny gaming device that feels uncomfortable to actually play games on then I'll go buy an iWatch! Design aesthetics notwithstanding this guy has a lot of work ahead of him to catch up to what Rodot has done over the past year, both in terms of the device itself and the community around it! I wish him the best but I'll be sticking with my Gamebuinos for now