Category: Argo Law

  • Freaking Cool Indies Podcast: IP Law Basics

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    I was invited to be a guest on the Freaking Cool Indies podcast by Mike Arone. Mike interviews game developers about their experiences in order to empower other indie devs. The topic of our discussion was some IP law basics for game developers. In this post I’m giving you a summary of what we talked…

  • My Personal Games of the Year for 2024

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    I write these blog posts about the intersection of law, business and games. Sometimes though, I just want to write about games, so I figured that I would end the year by writing about my personal games of the year for 2024. Much like The Game Awards’ odd rules for GOTY inclusions, I’m establishing some…

  • Legality of Cloning Games: Dire Decks, Wildcard, and Tetris

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    A story was recently published by PC Gamer that caught my attention. It concerns someone copying another developer’s game, and got me thinking about the legality of cloning games, or making a direct copy of someone else’s game, recreated from scratch. The story is about a developer by the name of Kindanice who developed a…