Target Earth Expansion
Birds
are developing an expansion to Starcraft: Brood War. It picks up where
Brood Wars left off. It involves 3 new campaigns, 6 new units, New
cinematicsm, multiple new hereos, spells, and much more. It is on its way
to completion but progress has been haulted due to technical difficulties.
When I contacted Blizzard to recieve permission to make this expansion after
we had already started I was turned down. Even though we are not planning
to sell this expansion we were turned down. Now, I am wondering if there is
anyone out there that would be against such an expansion. I would like to
convince Blizzard into letting us continue our project and release this
expansion to the public. We are planning on setting up a Battle Net just
for Target Earth and only Target Earth. If anyone has any objections to
this expansion please say so. Also, if you are supportive of this movement
please e-mail me at target...@hotmail.com . Thank you very much.
Birds
Target Earth Expansion
Learn more at http://targetearth.cjb.net
DarkHalf
>are developing an expansion to Starcraft: Brood War. It picks up where
>Brood Wars left off.
ACK!!! ::Smacks Birds with a herring:: Get the name write before you
release an expansion. ;p',',',',',
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Adam Smith
[snip]
A few points:
1) Your expansion sounds neat.
2) Blizzard seems to have the ability to prevent people from
distributing hacks for Starcraft, i.e., they've caused several
hack-distribution sites to get kicked from their host ISPs. Your
expansion is not a hack, but Blizzard may view it the same way and
take steps against you. Whether they really have the power to keep
you from doing this I can't say.
3) Blizzard makes a good bit of money from advertising on battle.net.
If your expansion and its alternative game server become popular,
Blizzard would likely lose advertising revenue as a result, as
people use your service rather than battle.net. Blizzard isn't
likely to be happy about that.
4) The characters and story used in Brood War are copyrighted by
Blizzard. Use of them would probably constitute copyright
infringement, for which they could sue you.
5) I can see that you could use StarDraft to create new units, but I
can't for the life of me figure out how you could create new spells
without writing your own game more or less from scratch.
Good luck, but I think the odds are stacked against you.
--
Adam Smith
Boston University
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
"In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in
practice there is."
evil inside
specific unit (just a UI Catch exception in DX), then, show a sprite......
it..s...RAD's whats' it..?
easy for me, how 'bout u?
tips: Ctrl-D
> 1) Your expansion sounds neat.
um...
>
> 2) Blizzard seems to have the ability to prevent people from
> distributing hacks for Starcraft, i.e., they've caused several
> hack-distribution sites to get kicked from their host ISPs. Your
> expansion is not a hack, but Blizzard may view it the same way and
> take steps against you. Whether they really have the power to keep
> you from doing this I can't say.
well, i have my own SERVER, i can HOST it.
> 3) Blizzard makes a good bit of money from advertising on battle.net.
> If your expansion and its alternative game server become popular,
> Blizzard would likely lose advertising revenue as a result, as
> people use your service rather than battle.net. Blizzard isn't
> likely to be happy about that.
FSGS?
> 4) The characters and story used in Brood War are copyrighted by
> Blizzard. Use of them would probably constitute copyright
> infringement, for which they could sue you.
just change the name. continuing a story hasn't get in the copyright law in
the states, right?
> 5) I can see that you could use StarDraft to create new units, but I
> can't for the life of me figure out how you could create new spells
> without writing your own game more or less from scratch.
from the top.
Birds
files on it. Thank you.
Birds
Cybernetsam
don't say it is an "official" expansion, they cant do a thing. I have seen
allot of expansions like that. go to www.simple.craft.com to see some.
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>A team of programmers that are not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment
Christopher
Adam Smith schrieb:
>
> Birds (forb...@aol.com) wrote:
> [snip]
>
> A few points:
[snip]
> 3) Blizzard makes a good bit of money from advertising on battle.net.
> If your expansion and its alternative game server become popular,
who much ?
do you know anyone who paid for an advert?
[snip]
christopher
JerichoNet
sue you for copyright infringement. You have to do like insurrection did and
get their official permission. All the stuff is copyrighted(Heroes, units,
name, etc.)
Get their permission...even though it'd be hard. They'll probably take some of
your profits if you make it.
Torch
Cybernetsam
off it. I would be like any other map you make.
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DisGrunTled
Birds <forb...@aol.com> wrote in article
DarkHalf
Looks to me like you just said the exact same thing Jericho did in
fewer words...
Birds
DisGrunTled <remi...@fnmail.com> wrote in message
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> whatre the new units?
Go to the webpage to see them.
Birds
jester
wrote:
>You can release it on the internet but if you sell it in stores then they can
>sue you for copyright infringement. You have to do like insurrection did and
>get their official permission. All the stuff is copyrighted(Heroes, units,
>name, etc.)
Copyright issues need not involve money. Someone can sue you just as
much if you release anything that infringes their copyright as if
you'd sell it or distribute it in any other form. See the FAQ on
'myths about copyright'.
jester