Month: March 2023
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Can You Legally Make a Fan Game? (Probably Not)
Video game development is more accessible than it’s ever been. Today anybody can go download a program and start learning how to make games. Combine that with a games industry that has been around long enough to have games that people are nostalgic for and you can easily understand why fan games have come up…
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A Basic Guide to Video Game Privacy Laws
The internet has dramatically changed the way that games operate, and the amount of data that they collect. In the days of the arcade, the most data that a game would collect from a player would be their initials to put at the top of the leaderboard after a particularly good game. Video game privacy…
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The Legal Problems with NFTs in Video Games
A lot of companies have talked about the idea of implementing NFTs in Video Games. Other blockchain technologies have similarly been considered. Ubisoft has attempted to put them into their game Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Konami celebrated the 35th anniversary of their legendary Castlevania franchise with a collection of NFTs rather than a new game that…
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Copyright, Contracts, and Practical Issues of Revenue Share Game Development
There is a very common type of project you’ll regularly see if you browse certain game developer forums and subreddits. You’ll see a lot of posts recruiting for revenue share projects, or rev-share. These are games (or other artistic endeavors) that propose to recruit a team without paying them upfront, but instead, pay them by…