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Working with a small group of 3 to port halo 1 to mobile, looking for c++ programmers and c#
Don't want anyone with a shitty attitude, looking for people who are passionate and want to stride towards finishing this project, so far minimum progress.
Is this a hobbyist project, or what?
What have you done, so far? How long did it take?
Do you have any project goals (e.g. minimum graphical fidelity, minimum hardware requirements)?
What have you done, so far? How long did it take?
Do you have any project goals (e.g. minimum graphical fidelity, minimum hardware requirements)?
Is it legal to take a companies product and port it to a platform it was never meant to run on. Wouldn't you have to hack the game. Isn't that illegal. Or is halo open source?
Also, were you expecting someone with a shitty attitude, or is this just a disclaimer?
Also, were you expecting someone with a shitty attitude, or is this just a disclaimer?
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If you were to try to then sell the game/port, you'd get a cease and desist letter real fast. I'd also imagine they wouldn't want you putting it on any official app store, regardless of whether it's free or not.
Until then, just people working on a port of a game as a hobby isn't likely to cause anything bad.
Depending on the game, mods can be gray area when it comes to legality. Some communities have avoided legal issues by claiming that they are just making a mod instead of a new game. There have been large modding communities that make sure that at least some part of the original game is needed for the mod to run, so that it can count as a mod and not a separate game. But if you started making money off of it, mod or not... that's when lawyers would start chasing you.
(Also, it also wouldn't matter if it's open source in itself, the licensing/terms of use would be what matters.)
There was a popular mod called Halo Custom Edition that never got taken down by Microsoft, so I don't think there's much to worry about here as long as you don't sell the game.
But it really depends on the company! Nintendo, for example, is very strict about its IP, and has taken down countless mods.
So all in all, it's gray area.
Until then, just people working on a port of a game as a hobby isn't likely to cause anything bad.
Depending on the game, mods can be gray area when it comes to legality. Some communities have avoided legal issues by claiming that they are just making a mod instead of a new game. There have been large modding communities that make sure that at least some part of the original game is needed for the mod to run, so that it can count as a mod and not a separate game. But if you started making money off of it, mod or not... that's when lawyers would start chasing you.
(Also, it also wouldn't matter if it's open source in itself, the licensing/terms of use would be what matters.)
There was a popular mod called Halo Custom Edition that never got taken down by Microsoft, so I don't think there's much to worry about here as long as you don't sell the game.
But it really depends on the company! Nintendo, for example, is very strict about its IP, and has taken down countless mods.
So all in all, it's gray area.
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Im trying to imagine a 1000 yard headshot on a 3 inch screen. :P
Good luck with the project!
Good luck with the project!
Imagine what a 1000 yard shot looks like through a rifle scope, a 3 inch screen is not much different.
Hopefully this project doesn't get slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit.
MS is no slouch when it comes to IP infringement either. Real or perceived. Being the publisher of the game series gives MS quite a big stick.
Hopefully this project doesn't get slapped with a copyright infringement lawsuit.
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| Nintendo, for example, is very strict about its IP |
MS is no slouch when it comes to IP infringement either. Real or perceived. Being the publisher of the game series gives MS quite a big stick.
M$ is nicer than most. They tend to send a cease and desist notice first, but I would rather not provoke them. Moving an antique game to a crappy platform for free would likely just get you one of those. It would not be fun to be selling copies of it, though. Hey, if you get it working, send them an email and ask them if you can distribute it or sell it back to them for a small fee. You never know.
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The project is legal, yes.
As long as we don't make a profit and ask for 343s permission to port the game and use it's resources.
This is a passion project. but before we contact 343 we want to have atleast the first mission working.
If we don't get permission we will still continue the project but won't publish it.
Join this discord if you wish to learn a bit more
https://discord.gg/9AZemF
As long as we don't make a profit and ask for 343s permission to port the game and use it's resources.
This is a passion project. but before we contact 343 we want to have atleast the first mission working.
If we don't get permission we will still continue the project but won't publish it.
Join this discord if you wish to learn a bit more
https://discord.gg/9AZemF
The shitty attitude is more so we don't want to work with people with an attitude we are here for fun and learning new tricks
Honestly I would not bother trying to get permission, because you're almost certainly not going to get it. At least not for free, so it'd be out of the question for hobbyists.
I myself am working on a similarly gray area project (it's a rewrite of Pokemon gen. 1 in C++) and my policy is "continue until told to stop; release P2P if told to stop".
I myself am working on a similarly gray area project (it's a rewrite of Pokemon gen. 1 in C++) and my policy is "continue until told to stop; release P2P if told to stop".
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Theyve said yes in the past, halo online didn't go but instead are they porting halo mcc to pc
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