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How is 'purpose' a legal term? What is the purpose of a game? To milk money from fans? To obey to some company's internal schedule? To entertain..... review sit

by ominous 10y ago

How is 'purpose' a legal term? What is the purpose of a game? To milk money from fans? To obey to some company's internal schedule? To entertain..... review sites? To entertain me? To showcase technology? To insert subliminal messages and DRM? All of the above? None? What was the purpose of tamagotchis? We may never know.

Sir_Substance 10y ago
>What was the purpose of tamagotchis? We may never know. But we can breath a sigh of relief that whatever it was, we beat them in the end.
wyldfire 10y ago
From what I've seen, courts are frequently asked to answer questions just like this one. They do not seem to be as troubled by slippery slopes because it's their job to decide where the line is. If you're a student using CryEngine you're probably not worth suing for copyright infringement (at worst a C&D maybe). If you're a corporate entity who is distributing a game which licenses CryEngine, you certainly may be worth suing for infringement.
- sillysaurus3 10y ago
  Which subsection restricts a corporate entity from distributing a game built on CryEngine? There are restrictions on Serious Games, but amusingly a Serious Game isn't a game.
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  - DigitalJack 10y ago
    I disagree, re: serious game. It's why we have the term gamification. Taking something mundane and making it, for my lack of a better term, gamey. I'm thinking of things like Starfighters.
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- mijoharas 10y ago
  There is a section[0] of the licence[1] which allows students to develop a Serious Game, but not for profit. [0] 2.2. If you are a student or a member of an academic institution you are in addition entitled to develop Serious Games using CryEngine and to render such Serious Games in object code form (including the CryEngine Assets and the CryEngine Redistributables) pursuant to the CryEngine documentation. However, you are in no case entitled to commercially exploit such Serious Games without Crytek’s explicit prior written approval. [1] https://www.cryengine.com/ce-terms https://www.cryengine.com/ce-terms
dspillett 10y ago
It is probably an arse covering measure. If someone uses the engine for serious work and it somehow fails, there isn't a route to ask them to cover financial/other damages because they told you not to use it that way (and you agreed not to use it that way via this license).
- vertex-four 10y ago
  Game engine companies actually tend to have separate licenses for Serious Games, with different terms and costs. This is because a Serious Game is often unlikely to be mass-market - at the extreme end of the scale, it might be developed for only one client to ever use.

by ominous 10y ago

Sir_Substance 10y ago

>What was the purpose of tamagotchis? We may never know. But we can breath a sigh of relief that whatever it was, we beat them in the end.

wyldfire 10y ago

From what I've seen, courts are frequently asked to answer questions just like this one. They do not seem to be as troubled by slippery slopes because it's their job to decide where the line is. If you're a student using CryEngine you're probably not worth suing for copyright infringement (at worst a C&D maybe). If you're a corporate entity who is distributing a game which licenses CryEngine, you certainly may be worth suing for infringement.

sillysaurus3 10y ago
Which subsection restricts a corporate entity from distributing a game built on CryEngine? There are restrictions on Serious Games, but amusingly a Serious Game isn't a game.
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- DigitalJack 10y ago
  I disagree, re: serious game. It's why we have the term gamification. Taking something mundane and making it, for my lack of a better term, gamey. I'm thinking of things like Starfighters.
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mijoharas 10y ago
There is a section[0] of the licence[1] which allows students to develop a Serious Game, but not for profit. [0] 2.2. If you are a student or a member of an academic institution you are in addition entitled to develop Serious Games using CryEngine and to render such Serious Games in object code form (including the CryEngine Assets and the CryEngine Redistributables) pursuant to the CryEngine documentation. However, you are in no case entitled to commercially exploit such Serious Games without Crytek’s explicit prior written approval. [1] https://www.cryengine.com/ce-terms https://www.cryengine.com/ce-terms

dspillett 10y ago

It is probably an arse covering measure. If someone uses the engine for serious work and it somehow fails, there isn't a route to ask them to cover financial/other damages because they told you not to use it that way (and you agreed not to use it that way via this license).

vertex-four 10y ago
Game engine companies actually tend to have separate licenses for Serious Games, with different terms and costs. This is because a Serious Game is often unlikely to be mass-market - at the extreme end of the scale, it might be developed for only one client to ever use.