Ware do you get this game? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] new member
> Hi, > Well, there is Jedi Quake maintained by Cara Quinn. It is basically > quake with a Star Wars type theme to it. > As for any outright Star Wars games for the blind there aren't any. I > was working on one called Jedi Strike, but when I attempted to license > the Star Wars copyrights via Lucas Licensing they flatly refused. > Besides being very expensive Lucas Licensing only deals with one company > at a time. For example, since Lucas Arts holds the exclusive copyright > for Star Wars vidio games my company USA Games can't license the > copyright, because Lucas Licensing says it would be a conflict of > interest. I would be competing with their games, and never mind the fact > my games for the blind wouldn't even scratch their markets. Besides > witch the couple thousand I would earn off of making said Star wars > games wouldn't even pay for the royalties they wanted to legally license > the Star Wars copyrights. > Bottom line, what I learned is clearly Lucas Licensing has nothing in > place for small time developers wanting to create a game using a Star > Wars theme. It is clear all of their dealings are with companies with > millions of dollars to spend, and thus will pay millions to Lucas in > royalties. A guy expecting to make a few thousand isn't even worth their > time of day unless I use their copyrights illegally, and then they can > sue me for copyright infringement. It is a lose lose situation, and > Lucas Licensing is a bunch of jerks if you ask me. > I have thought about releasing the game as freeware under the creative > commons license, but even that is no absolute protection. That may give > them less of a reasont to sue, but they still can come after me with a > cease and desist order that the courts would uphold stating I have to > remove the content and destroy all source code, all known copies, etc. > I'm not sure it is worth the trouble for a blind developer to risk that > or not. > > Michael Amaro wrote: >> Any starwars type games? >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
