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The game assets are included in the snapshot, and can be redistributed for free, but cannot be resold without our permission. I am awaiting the final license f

by aw3c2 17y ago

The game assets are included in the snapshot, and can be redistributed for free, but cannot be resold without our permission. I am awaiting the final license for the assets. To be honest I expected the whole game to be free and open-source so one can freely reuse it. This is a (small) letdown.

kevinh 17y ago
I'm not surprised. It's the route that all games seem to take when they go open source - Quake 1-3, Duke Nukem 3D, and Freespace 2 have all taken this route. It's a way to prevent your game from becoming outdated without losing any ability to make money in the future. You can buy Lugaru for a song right now anyways off the deal website (which has been extended another week). Edit: I think I misunderstood your comment. It appears that the code will be licensed under the GPL (a link on the bundle website indicates as much). I'd imagine you can reuse the code (with the stipulations attached), but not the art assets, which are almost never distributed with source code releases.
chaostheory 17y ago
While the engine itself is decent, it's not like you'd want to use the existing assets anyway if you were building a game of it. I still don't understand why they went with rabbits instead of people in uniform (samurai, pikemen, ninjas, ...). It just doesn't feel right. Besides given their past actions, if you really want to use the assets for a commercial project I'm sure they'd have a reasonable license for it.
- BoppreH 17y ago
  I thought the idea of rabbits excellent. It's something new, especially because of the darker mood the game has, and give some passable excuses for the jumps and throws not break the suspension of disbelief. I think it fitted quite right.
  - cbernini 17y ago
    Usagi Yojimbo is a rabbit samurai, and the plot is really nice (http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/ http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/). Rabbits as humanized characters aren't something original on Lugaru, but yeah, it definitely fitted right. Lugaru seemed nice to me (actually I ended up donating some bucks and getting the 5 games, even though they went open), just didn't have time to play them extensively, except for world of Goo, which is addicting (but that goes for another thread). :)
    - BoppreH 17y ago
      As far as I understand, the game engines went open. Lugaru's characters, levels, textures, models and story will probably be kept commercial. I don't think you could play the real Lugaru game without paying or pirating it.

by aw3c2 17y ago

kevinh 17y ago

I'm not surprised. It's the route that all games seem to take when they go open source - Quake 1-3, Duke Nukem 3D, and Freespace 2 have all taken this route. It's a way to prevent your game from becoming outdated without losing any ability to make money in the future. You can buy Lugaru for a song right now anyways off the deal website (which has been extended another week). Edit: I think I misunderstood your comment. It appears that the code will be licensed under the GPL (a link on the bundle website indicates as much). I'd imagine you can reuse the code (with the stipulations attached), but not the art assets, which are almost never distributed with source code releases.

chaostheory 17y ago

While the engine itself is decent, it's not like you'd want to use the existing assets anyway if you were building a game of it. I still don't understand why they went with rabbits instead of people in uniform (samurai, pikemen, ninjas, ...). It just doesn't feel right. Besides given their past actions, if you really want to use the assets for a commercial project I'm sure they'd have a reasonable license for it.

BoppreH 17y ago
I thought the idea of rabbits excellent. It's something new, especially because of the darker mood the game has, and give some passable excuses for the jumps and throws not break the suspension of disbelief. I think it fitted quite right.
- cbernini 17y ago
  Usagi Yojimbo is a rabbit samurai, and the plot is really nice (http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/ http://www.usagiyojimbo.com/). Rabbits as humanized characters aren't something original on Lugaru, but yeah, it definitely fitted right. Lugaru seemed nice to me (actually I ended up donating some bucks and getting the 5 games, even though they went open), just didn't have time to play them extensively, except for world of Goo, which is addicting (but that goes for another thread). :)
  - BoppreH 17y ago
    As far as I understand, the game engines went open. Lugaru's characters, levels, textures, models and story will probably be kept commercial. I don't think you could play the real Lugaru game without paying or pirating it.