Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 23:26:33 06/26/04
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On June 26, 2004 at 09:29:05, Uri Blass wrote: >I want to know if ... or if the programmer of >zillion of games is allowed to improve his program to make it stronger in most >games or if another programmer is allowed to write a program with free source >code that can play games that the user define in a similiar way to zillion of >games(No special code for a specific game). Interesting questions. I have designed lots of games with and for "Zillions of Games", have a look at http://www.zillions-of-games.com/games/index.html Zillions is a fantastic product. You can realize almost every board game with help of it. Simply formulate a rules file, and in most games Zillions immediately plays the game rather strongly. But of course you have to respect personal rights, copyrights and so on when you make such a game publicly available. I learned this the hard way in Summer 2003. At the end I had to rename the game. Now it is called "Permission denied". It can also be found on the Zillions site, given above. Ingo Althofer. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am greatful to Nina Hagen and her attorney Julia Bezzenberger. They gave me a very insightful lesson on personal rights and name rights. Unfortunately this lesson was also rather expensive. The name "NINA" - nothing more and nothing less - is trademarked by Nina Hagen in the field of games, electronic games, and computer games. In the original version of my game there had been one piece called "NI" and another piece called "NA".
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