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What are the laws/rules for freeware games from someone else's design?

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From: obr... No parking EXCEPT FOR BOB
Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 08:16
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My brother and I each have programmed some games.  Both games
that we have invented and games that we have found/bought/copied.

One of the most polished is called "Black Box" and the boardgame
version of this is/was published by Parker Brothers.

We know that we can't sell these, but can we give them away as
freeware?

(_Some_ of our original games we may release as shareware, in hopes
of creating a market to publish into, and maybe generate a little
expense money to finish some of the grander ones we'd like to play)

Probably, but not necessarily, these will be developed in either
Visual Basic or Visual C++.  The almost-polished "Black Box"
is in VB.  We may even consider working with a multi-platform
development system like STI, since we *might* be able to legitimately
borrow the tools.  Then our stuff would be portable to lots of
other systems besides PC's.

Comments welcome, especially answers from knowledgable sources.

If there is a more appropriate forum for game designers and/or
game programmers, pointers would be appreciated.  We do all this
stuff in spare time, so there's no schedule, please don't
ask when, because we don't know.



	Bob O'Bob

Shameless boardgame plug:  Readers in/near Deutschland,
look for "Crash!" published by Franjos.  Feedback to this
account can be forwarded directly to the game's creator.
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