Well, a few members of Spatial, have come together to making their own original game. For protection we added a copyright on it. We're currently designing the concept and rules of the game. Once this game is finished, we are thinking of putting it on BYOND. However, lets say someone steals the idea and makes a game of it on BYOND without our permission and say everything is their own creation. Our question is, can BYOND ban them or would it require some legal action to be taken and processed?
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Aug 10 2011, 12:18 pm
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Oasiscircle
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You would require legal action as BYOND doesn't meddle with your affairs, it only provides the tools to create, play and manage your games.
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We'd need to copyright our own unique creations like music, characters and artwork properly if you wanted to save them. It'd cost you money though, the best bet is just to make the game as un-copyable as possible.
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There is not much you can do. It's like World of Warcraft - Blizzard can't stop it's clones from existing ( Allods, Runes of Magic, 4Story ). You should worry less about how you can "secure" your idea and more about how to make such a good game that no one would bother going to any of the knock-offs that are created.
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Well the game inquiring is a card game that Zangetsu and Co. personally made the rules to and created a concept to it. They were wondering because certain people would stoop so low, as to take the ideas and claim it for themselves, unfortunately. They just wanted to know if there was some back up/insurance, if this should happen.
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Yut Put wrote:
Spatialpublics wrote: Not saying that it will be stolen, just in the likely event. We doubt that anyone would do such a thing, but just a question that was brought up by Zangetsu and Co. | |
Spatialpublics wrote:
Well the game inquiring is a card game that Zangetsu and Co. personally made the rules to and created a concept to it. They were wondering because certain people would stoop so low, as to take the ideas and claim it for themselves, unfortunately. They just wanted to know if there was some back up/insurance, if this should happen. You can secure artwork, characters, music etc. but it'd be near impossible to make a card game that no one could make their own version of. That's the reason genres exist in the first place - because several different developers create games that borrow ideas from one another and end up very similar. Consider League of Legends. They aren't trying to take Heroes of Newerth or Rise of Immortals to court and get them shut down. Instead, they keep adding new features to make themselves unique and offer players a better experience over the competitors. | |