Okay, It doesn''t matter if you give credit or not they own the copyrights. Legally they have the right and should come after you for it because by law they have to defend their copyrights or they can become public domain (so I haev been told, I''m not a lawyer).

But here is where things become strange. And this goes from company to company.

Fox has shut down mods for Half-Life that were free. Though you can almost 100% attribute this to the fact AvP exists, why woudl they want fere competition to their product o they can lose money from peopel jstu playing a mod (and also risk the mod being better then their game and have noon play it) when they haev all the legal right to shut it down. Now your game isnt'' a FPS but could always be looked at to be shut down. If I was Fox I wouldn''t BUT I''m not and they have all the right to do so and shouldn''t be put down for doign it because I would hate to have my stuff stolen.

Then there are other things liek a Starcraft mod that was being made on Halflfie that Blizzard shutdown. They again were protectig their IP. It wasnt'' even ni teh asme genre but they felt they haev to protect their IP on everywhere because they dont'' want to risk people makign bad thigns and others getting a bad idea abotu their product because of that.

Then there is another situation Which I am currently dealign with. I work for a Half-life mod (you can see what I spend most my tiem doing ) that is making a mod based on teh Warhammer 40k table top game made by Games Workshop. We actually called them and got their okay to do so. But then something worse happened, THQ purchased the electronic game rights to warhammer 40k. We haven''t been approached yet by them but it is something we do wonder abotu because they could at any time shut us down. And they have the rights even thgohu we have GW (who owns the IP) okay because now another company has the rights to make all games related to it and they woudl not want the cahnce of someone else takign away frmo their market share.

So basically my view is dont'' make games based no others stuff unless you have the exclusiev rights to it I''m learnign the hard way.

RipSUp

quote:Original post by Cyberdrek
hahahahahahaha... Verry funny... You won''t get far if you don''t at least learn one API... I''m talking about DX or OGL. Knowing C/C++ is just a small part of game programming. You can learn C/C++ in about 1 week if you know what you''re doing.

I thought this forum was about design issues, not implementation.

quote:Don''t mention that you used RPGToolkit, That''s not game creation, that''s bullshit. With that crap, anybody can have a game done within 1 hours and say that they made a game.. Oh and it doesn''t prove that you know jack about game programming either.

I get the distinct feeling your intention was to flaunt your superiority. You said very little that was informative or helpful, and then you ended with the "Get a life" statement. You don''t need to put people down; he came asking for advice, not assaults. If you have nothing to say (like I did), say nothing. Respect the forums, huh?

It''s not as though people are saying "don''t make a game", I know I only meant "don''t make a game that directly references trademarked characters without first securing the right to use the trademarks".

Go mad, is what I say! Just don''t *call* it "Alien Something-or-Other"

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-WarMage
...mmmm.h.r.giger...

If Fox says "You release that and we''ll annihilate you down to your very last cell", we finish it and play it by ourselves, giving it to one or two other friends, as well as using it as a "portfolio".

IMNSHO, a game based on copyrighted material makes for a very unprofessional-looking ''portfolio.'' But it''s your career...

Fox is not gonna say ''yeah sure whatever,'' either.