Re: (TFT) The return of Ogre - Rick did something silly.

[De Des <denisdesharnais@gmail.com>]

I downloaded Demonlord a couple of years ago, and got hit by this huge wave
of nostalgia at the graphics.  I think I might have tried to play it once.
 Wizard's Quest is another one where the artwork meant more than the game
itself.  Maybe that's just me.


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:43 PM, gem6868 <gem6868@verizon.net> wrote:

> IF I recall correctly [and that could be a big IF] games that are OOP can
> be copied and put up on the internet, and as long as you don't sell them
> for profit they can even be downloadable.  But perhaps you need permission
> for the download.
>
> There's another group that has made a bunch of great pocket games
> available for free, it's a Dwarfstar / Heritage Games Yahoo Group, and you
> can download all those games for free.  And some are just amazingly well
> done, like Grav Armor, Dragon Rage, Outpost Gamma, Dark Lord, and more.
>
> But I'm open to correction about this.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Riley
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:54 PM
>
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: Re: (TFT) The return of Ogre - Rick did something silly.
>
> I am curious if anybody has thought about making a new game in the TFT
> spirit?  Game mechanics themselves cannot be copyrighted, only specific
> assets like names, places, wording for rules, illustrations, game board
> layout etc, but the mechanics themselves are free from copyright.  As such
> it is possible to make a game that has the best aspects that we all like
> about TFT and change where we feel it has shortcomings and create a game
> that plays similar to it enough to have that Melee/Wizard experience that
> everybody can enjoy.  TFT components are getting harder and harder to find
> on eBay and more expensive, making a clone of sorts allows the game
> mechanics to live on even tho the original games may fade into history.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>     Mike
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:03:13 -0700
>> Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > *Though maybe if en
>> > ough of us screamed and held our breath and wept loudly, he might see
>> his w
>> > ay to do a TFT Kickstarter to do it the way he originally wanted it done
>> be
>> > fore Thompson screwed the pooch with the original set.  Of course that's
>> > all pure speculation, and I doubt Thompson (who seems to be a
>> small-minded,
>> >  petty, and vindictive sort of person) would ever let Steve have the
>> rights
>> >  back.*
>>
>> There was a list member some time back that looked into acquiring the TFT
>> rights.  He had some resources at his disposal, but he'd have had to get a
>> bank check in the amount he was willing to offer, and Thompson would
>> either
>> give a yes or no with no further negotiation possible.  Given the very
>> limited appeal of such a re-release, he decided it wasn't worth the
>> aggravation.
>>
>> I don't think a kickstarter could possibly help in this situation.  The
>> closest we'll probably come is the Dark City series of games.
>>
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