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I immediately recognized the Tesla coils from the game C&C Red Alert. Watch out for copyright there. Some feedback The game is a bit visually-loud. It's overs

I immediately recognized the Tesla coils from the game C&C Red Alert. Watch out for copyright there. Some feedback The game is a bit visually-loud. It's overstimulating for me, I can't immediately figure out what I'm supposed to do to get playing. It took me a while to find the login button. Perhaps a fix is a smaller field of view with pan and zoom? Take my advice with a grain of salt, I'm no game designer.

suifbwish 5y ago
Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting. They are in openRA and that’s an open source version of red alert.
- baud147258 5y ago
  I would think that OpenRA can use the Telsa coils (and other copyrighted elements) because it's a mod for Command & Conquer, which wouldn't be transferable to another project unrelated to C&C
  - wingerlang 5y ago
    It's not a mod, but as far as I know they simply do not distribute the sprites and content themselves.
    - dustymcp 5y ago
      You dont need a copy to Play openra
      - suifbwish 5y ago
        You don’t. I just installed it yesterday on a new Linux laptop. What’s interesting about openra is you can run multiple copies at the same time on the same machine to play against yourself for fun
      - wingerlang 5y ago
        I know, but the files are still not distributed by Open RA, they are downloaded during the installation from the C&C distributor.
    - baud147258 5y ago
      it's not a mod, but regarding the assets owned by EA, it's using the license granted by the 'C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines' [0], so that's why I used that word [0]https://www.openra.net/download/ https://www.openra.net/download/
      - wingerlang 5y ago
        Fair enough
- DrBoring 5y ago
  > Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting I don't think that is a valid legal argument. Based on the last ownership of Westwood Studios, EA probably owns the rights to the Red Alert sprites. So "should be fine" depends on how litigious EA chooses to be.
  - suifbwish 5y ago
    True but it’s probably safer than having characters that look like Mickey Mouse
  - SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
    My first instinct when I see EA is to assume the worst, but they've allowed "Return of Reckoning" (an unlicensed version of their now closed MMO: "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning") to remain operating for years now so I really have no idea.
datalopers 5y ago
Oh come on, nobody is going after an open-source project using some 25-year-old sprites. Nearly all his artwork looks to be borrowed from old tile-based games.
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blindpirate 5y ago
Thanks for the reminder and feedback. Issue created here: https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/119 https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/119 I totally understand the copyright risk. The reason I use it was that I love RA2 so much - that's almost the only game I played when I was a child. I'm proud and happy to put the sprite into a game I design and write. If there's any issue from EA, I'd immediately roll them back, sadly.

suifbwish 5y ago

Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting. They are in openRA and that’s an open source version of red alert.

baud147258 5y ago
I would think that OpenRA can use the Telsa coils (and other copyrighted elements) because it's a mod for Command & Conquer, which wouldn't be transferable to another project unrelated to C&C
- wingerlang 5y ago
  It's not a mod, but as far as I know they simply do not distribute the sprites and content themselves.
  - dustymcp 5y ago
    You dont need a copy to Play openra
    - suifbwish 5y ago
      You don’t. I just installed it yesterday on a new Linux laptop. What’s interesting about openra is you can run multiple copies at the same time on the same machine to play against yourself for fun
    - wingerlang 5y ago
      I know, but the files are still not distributed by Open RA, they are downloaded during the installation from the C&C distributor.
  - baud147258 5y ago
    it's not a mod, but regarding the assets owned by EA, it's using the license granted by the 'C&C Franchise Modding Guidelines' [0], so that's why I used that word [0]https://www.openra.net/download/ https://www.openra.net/download/
    - wingerlang 5y ago
      Fair enough
DrBoring 5y ago
> Should be fine so long as he isn’t profiting I don't think that is a valid legal argument. Based on the last ownership of Westwood Studios, EA probably owns the rights to the Red Alert sprites. So "should be fine" depends on how litigious EA chooses to be.
- suifbwish 5y ago
  True but it’s probably safer than having characters that look like Mickey Mouse
- SketchySeaBeast 5y ago
  My first instinct when I see EA is to assume the worst, but they've allowed "Return of Reckoning" (an unlicensed version of their now closed MMO: "Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning") to remain operating for years now so I really have no idea.

datalopers 5y ago

Oh come on, nobody is going after an open-source project using some 25-year-old sprites. Nearly all his artwork looks to be borrowed from old tile-based games.

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blindpirate 5y ago

Thanks for the reminder and feedback. Issue created here: https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/119 https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/119 I totally understand the copyright risk. The reason I use it was that I love RA2 so much - that's almost the only game I played when I was a child. I'm proud and happy to put the sprite into a game I design and write. If there's any issue from EA, I'd immediately roll them back, sadly.