It has been about a year since I first formed my LLC, and I have already submitted my tax return. Without going into specifics, GBGames, LLC posted losses in its first year. Looking back, I can say that one of my problems was that I didn’t do a very good job of managing […]
I recently finished writing an article called What an Indie Needs to Know About Copyright.
I wrote it because it still amazes me how many independent game developers do not know about copyright. Either they overestimate what it is that copyright does for them, or they underestimate what it does for other people. […]
I found this bit of news on LinuxGames.com. Second Life, the virtual world created by the players, has had its client code open sourced. Linden Labs released the client code under the GPL.
I’m excited by this news because it means that progress on the GNU/Linux client might actually move forward, putting it on par […]
I just got the latest issue of PC Gamer, and I was reading the letters to the editor when I came across the complaint of Jon Ferrell. Jon wrote about the annoyance and pain involved in needing to have a CD in the drive for no other reason but copy protection. Besides being […]
I have been looking into Space Invaders and how it was like to play the original. I played Love Invaders, which has an amusing intro (1978 was all just a big misunderstanding), and Invasion 3D, which actually had some interesting game mechanics, such as exploding UFOs that also destroyed nearby aliens and aliens that […]
A Michigan judge ordered the state to pay $182,349 to pay for legal fees the ESA incurred to challenge an unconstitutional law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. Governments now owe or have paid over $1,500,000 in legal fees trying to pass unconstitutional laws, including the more than $500,000 […]
According to Game Politics, Governor Blagojevich’s administration has not paid the ESA’s legal fees in the court fight over “Safe Games Illinois”, the law that the governor managed to pass last year before it was ruled unconstitutional. Since the payment of over half a million dollars has not been made, the ESA is now […]
Recently the Free Software Foundation put forth a call for volunteers to help answer licensing questions about the GPL, LGPL, and Free Software licenses in general.
The Compliance Lab does do one job which is very public: we answer licensing questions from the free software community. When people want to learn how they can mix code […]
ZDNet featured a news story titled Violent games blamed for German school attack. A man stormed his school, wounded 27 people, and then committed suicide. Due to this fascination with war simulation and video games, government officials are now calling for a ban on “killer games”. GamePolitics.com has also covered this news […]
In an effort to attract more females to computer science, a male-dominated field, the Games 4 Girls competition asks college women to create computer games designed to be fun for middle or high school age women.
In previous competitions, Game Maker was required, but this year other tools and platforms can be used. […]
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