Pilchard VIII wrote:
Okay. The only reason I put it on there was to show how far vmy DROD addiction goes. Okay, that's not the real reason, but I thought, "Hey, Shareware version of a demo off a CD-ROM that I purchased, It's gotta be okay." I guess not. Oh well, I guess I gotta be more careful about what I post.
It's alright, P. Easy mistake to make, and nothing's held against you.
FYI...
In the world at large, practically as well as legally, people need to get permission to distribute shareware demos to avoid trouble. The Webfoot DROD shareware demo got on the CD by way of Webfoot signing a distribution agreement with the company making the CD. Also, editors for magazine cover CDs will send e-mails asking for permission to distribute demos. Screenshots, listings, and demos shown on game websites are mostly put there by some initiative of the developer/publisher (press release, form submission) that implies permission. I myself have a process for collecting permission from game developers to distribute their game demos on our CDs. Sometimes shareware demos come with a "
go ahead and distribute"
license which counts as permission, but to my knowledge Webfoot DROD doesn't have this.
I would ask Webfoot for permission to distribute their old shareware demo, but they don't want to handle related support requests, and the Webfoot demo has contact phone# and e-mail for them. We don't really either, i.e. "
How do I get my games from Webfoot DROD to work with Caravel DROD?"
And we already made a version of DROD that is 99% the same (DROD: Architects' Edition) so the effort isn't really worth it. That's not to say the Webfoot demo doesn't have it's distinguishing charms from AE--just that giving 5 or 15 people a small joy doesn't really justify the trouble.
Man, that sounds cold. I'm just a machine sometimes.
-Erik
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The Godkiller - Chapter 1 available now on Steam. It's a DROD-like puzzle adventure game.
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