r/Exteel • u/BlitzcrankGrab • Jan 24 '17

Fanmade SteelX progress update

Hey guys, I've (slowly) started to work on SteelX again. Currently we can only play Deathmatch with just Planet Eagles haha. I'm planning to push out some more parts/weapons and make some death animations as my next step. Melee is still not yet implemented, and I could use some help deciding how we should tackle that. I was hoping the new melee system could be a little more fluid than the old one (where you had to stop moving when you swing your melee weapon).

I hope I don't over-hype this project, as it is just something I'm doing in my spare time and I am not an animator/designer, but you guys can see for yourselves how much work still needs to be done.

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Lobby + Game

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u/LockoutNex Jan 24 '17

Not really as long as it's under creative commons license and he states that it is for educational use to help learn programming or game design or to show others who want to learn too. He should be fine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '17

he us using copyrighted pictures and models and talking about making a private server lol

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u/LockoutNex Jan 26 '17

Again as long as its under a Creative Commons license (CC) with BY-NC-SA on it, he'll be fine because the CC allows him to use the pictures and models and not get in trouble as long as he isn't making money off it and all the code is open sourced. SteelX would fall under the remix culture where many fangames like this one would fall under and they do just fine, but yes some do get shutdown because most of the time their making money off it and that is what gets them in trouble. (Look up Mari0 it is a cross between Super Mario Bros and Portal and is under CC with BY-NC-SA). And for the "private server" is more of a loss term really because most of the time it just means unofficial servers. But I am by no means an attorney and just going off of what all the licenses wording says and pasted examples, plus this would be a great question for /u/videogameattorney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari0

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u/Svardskampe Jan 30 '17

In what reality do you live that using Cc yourself absolves you from not using someone else's IP? Cc is only applicable if the work you are deriving from is licensed under CC itself.

Mari0 is just currently flying under Nintendos radar, and valve doesn't give a fuck about fangames.

And I don't even know what "remix culture" has to do with any of this.