[QUE] Changing consoles to real consoles

Game Dev Tycoon modding
#1

Is there someway to create a mod where it replaces the game dev tycoon fantasy consoles with the real consoles and real company names without breaking the images, that show up on the Platform Selection Box for Game Development and the story events.

#2

Yes this is possible, but it should be posted in the modding section.

#4

when you create a mod, you have to have the rights to use the images and trademarks you add to the game. so, unfortunately no, unless you have written authorization from all involved companies you can’t just go and add real consoles.

Personally, I think it’s more fun to have parodies anyway.

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#5

What if the mod is private and only a number of people could get it?

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#6

It’s still a violation of copyright, but nobody would prosecute it unless they had some other reason to do that, such as significant political or monetary gain from your downfall.

#7

Mhmm I just have to find the news, but I think Philips (3DO) and Atari (as game developer/publisher) sued people for violating copyrights.

I wouldn’t test it.

#8

So every website with ads on it can’t even mention real trademarks? I think you are all too paranoid.

#9

As long as you use images on Wikipedia, you should have no issues with copyright. Honestly, I’m not sure why the developer didn’t do this.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

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#10

Do you mean this license?

  1. Almost anything can be trademarked, and it wouldn’t make sense to forbid everything.

  2. Trademarks and industrial designs restrictions are pertinent to industrial reproduction, but photographs of such items can otherwise be freely reproduced.

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#11

I’m not 100% on all the technicalities, but I know that any picture legally added to Wikipedia becomes available for commercial use by anyone. And obviously mentioning names of companies, countries, etc. for historical purposes is fine.

It was amusing at first seeing the name parodies, but after playing several times it just makes me wish it were the actual name.

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#12

Wait. So If I made a mod and I used Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Xbox 360 as a console. I could get sued?

#13

Yes, when you use Microsoft in the mod, you and the game devs would get sued.

#14

Microsoft’s name is copyrighted, but if an image is uploaded to wikipedia than you are legally allowed to download it and use it in anything.

So, yes but no

You aren’t allowed to use Microsoft’s name, and I don’t think you’re allowed to use the name of the XBOX 360, but you’re allowed to use images from wikipedia.

#15

You cannot pretend to be Microsoft.
You cannot make false statements about Microsoft (i.e. slander).
You can refer to the company known as Microsoft.

Otherwise Wikipedia would have a very hard time talking about anything.

Of course, this doesn’t apply to mods here, since the developers explicitly state you cannot use the real names.

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#16

Question: Gamebiz 3 (and it’s predecessors) used real console and computer/OS names and the names of publishers and developers, and did so in the vanilla game which sold for about 20 dollars. How was that possible? Was it done technically illegally, or does this reveal something about the nature of trademarks that was overlooked?

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#17

@Twyster, Gamebiz 3 was released 3 years ago. The trademarks might’ve changed over that time.

#18

Please see my post in this thread for more information;
http://forum.greenheartgames.com/t/changing-console-names/8664/11

If you have direct questions, just ask, and i will dig up the pertaining laws surrounding them.

The 2 main rules of modding are;

  1. Know the Law - Actual
  2. Know the Law - Etiquette
#19

Even if that is true for commercial products, for free mods I would like to see the laws that prohibit mere mention of product names.
So you guys are from Austria right, then you should know that in Germany any EULA is void unless you present it to the customer in an explicit way before the purchase.

#20

This topic is full of speculation and I will close it. Discussion based on personal opinions and speculation are useless in this case.

The bottom line is: Unless you have written authorization from the companies involved, do not use their trademarked names. If you do then you go against our Modding Agreement and you no longer have a right to mod the game.

The EULA has nothing to do with this. Only the Modding Agreement gives you the right to mod, not the EULA.

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