Calling out to all Battlestar Galactica modders!!! Thread

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ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	Oct 28 2011, 7:13am Anchor
ambershee Nimbusfish Rawks	ModDB won't have to close if companies pull the plug on use of trademarked IP. There are plenty of creative projects out there that are capable of standing on their own merits without relying on another universe.
masternerdguy	Oct 28 2011, 11:47am Anchor
masternerdguy	ambershee wrote:ModDB won't have to close if companies pull the plug on use of trademarked IP. There are plenty of creative projects out there that are capable of standing on their own merits without relying on another universe. Not to mention ModDB deals with indie games as well, which generally don't use IP without permission. -- All posts are phase shifted and routed through the main deflector dish for quality assurance purposes.
Phrey Composer	Oct 28 2011, 12:24pm Anchor
Phrey Composer	ambershee wrote:ModDB won't have to close if companies pull the plug on use of trademarked IP. There are plenty of creative projects out there that are capable of standing on their own merits without relying on another universe. Sure, but are we talking about mods ? i don't think so... ? A mod (by definition) is a modification of an existing game as you know. If the companies refuse mods... ModDB will only host games and will have no reason to be named ModDB ...That's what I meant... Ok it doesn't help a lot of course, sorry. -- Composer for movies and video games
Jok3r098 “A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows” - Linus Torvals	Oct 28 2011, 1:11pm Anchor
	Phrey wrote: ambershee wrote:ModDB won't have to close if companies pull the plug on use of trademarked IP. There are plenty of creative projects out there that are capable of standing on their own merits without relying on another universe. Sure, but are we talking about mods ? i don't think so... ? A mod (by definition) is a modification of an existing game as you know. If the companies refuse mods... ModDB will only host games and will have no reason to be named ModDB ...That's what I meant... Ok it doesn't help a lot of course, sorry. What he means is that as long as developers have unique IP's for their mods (or indies) they are safe. There are tons of modable games out there and its not modding a game that causes issues, The game developers release a modding SDK and expect you to mod the game, they arent going to start suing... and its perfectly legal to mod a game (within the restrictions of their respective licenses). The issue is people modding (and making indies) that are based around another IP Eg battlestar, star(wars/trek/gate), and other games not related to the modding SDK of choice, etc
EclipseStardestroyer	Jan 16 2012, 1:26pm Anchor
EclipseStardestroyer	It's stupid! I have been watching Battlestar Galactica: at War mod for quite sometime! It was on the edge of completion until this happened! It's ridiculous! And why did they decide to remove it NOW all the sudden!? Mods of this show have been up on this site for YEARS!
Smoth Zeonic Loyalist	Jan 17 2012, 2:27pm Anchor
Smoth Zeonic Loyalist	yawn you guys were working on a project that was seen as competition to their product. This is known history of non-independant IP games/mods. BidforPower was killed before a bunch of dbz games came stateside.. halogen was killed when microsoft came out with Halowars.. My own project, it is possible that Bandai may kill it if they want to make a gundam rts.. and I will be ok with that. Funny that Earth's Special Forces has not been shutdown yet, I think it is awesome. Anyway, point is, that is the REAL reason most hobby developers will not touch other people's IP because their project can be shut down. of course if it does, what is so bad about that? you do new models, you still have all your code. Make it into something new and it could be loosely based/inspired by bsg. After all there are no original ideas. Most importantly you should be happy that all they did was shut you down. I think it is really awesome that companies merely C&D you rather than take any real heavy handed legal action. I am not saying I don't feel your pain but you should have known this was a possibility given the history of prior IP based projects.
mal98	Jun 19 2012, 8:03am Anchor
mal98	So...is there some hidden webpage I may go to?
EclipseStardestroyer	Jun 19 2012, 8:51am Anchor
EclipseStardestroyer	Yeah I remember that. I'm so pissed that that happened! I was so getting my hopes up for Battlestar Galactica at War mod =(
romnus	Jun 19 2012, 1:43pm Anchor
romnus	Does anyone remember who was working on BSG at war mod? It would be cool if there was a small hush-hush release...
Henley Grossly Incandescent	Jun 19 2012, 9:20pm Anchor
Henley Grossly Incandescent	romnus wrote:Does anyone remember who was working on BSG at war mod? It would be cool if there was a small hush-hush release... Don't let the fact that we cannot host your mods be the reason you stop making them! --
jstubbles	Aug 4 2012, 5:49pm Anchor
jstubbles	Indeed. We're still working on Nexus BSG, we have a temp site up on a subdomain of my website: www.ivassago.com/nexusbsg We're also still trying to contact NBCUniversal, to get ModDB to host the content again. NBCU worked with mod developers in Second Life, to let them create BSG related content in there, falling under the creative commons license. We're trying to get the same for our mods. So keep you heads up!
SinKing bumps me thread	Aug 4 2012, 6:43pm Anchor
SinKing bumps me thread	It makes me sad that companies can pull a plug on projects that have no commercial interest. They could just roll with it and eventually offer the devs to take their game to a commercial level. But no - that's not corporate thinking... It's always a risk to get into any modding of that kind of stuff, even though it is exactly that kind of stuff that keeps a company + their series thriving. Nobody arrests people for painting or Cosplay. I don't see why modding a game after your favorite series is that much different. I hope someone will make a decent Galactica game one day. So far all (2?) I've seen were pretty horrible and far from the essence of the series. Diaspora and the Nexus BSG looked and felt like they were done by people, who actually know the series and care about it. I see you're still working on it and I wish you luck. Edited by: SinKing --
Karajorma	Sep 5 2012, 12:33am Anchor
Karajorma	I thought this thread would have died long ago, but since it's only a 30 day bump, here's where you can find the Diaspora : Shattered Armistice release. Have fun.
Risbosix	Sep 7 2012, 5:39pm Anchor
Risbosix	Diaspora is out \o/
Jok3r098 “A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows” - Linus Torvals	Sep 9 2012, 6:58am Anchor
	Website down permenantly? i cant access Tgdaily.com -- links to .torrent (Diaspora.fs2downloads.com) giving it a try now
Byron_Rees Mod Leader BSG at War	Oct 23 2012, 7:44am Anchor
Byron_Rees Mod Leader BSG at War	To all BSG modders out there. I am the leader of the mod BSG at War for Star Wars Empire at War. We have setup a temporary website to house BSG mods at Bsgmods.com so if your looking for mod hosting then give me a pm or sign up on the forums and make an application. We are still continuing our content even with the takedown notice for "one" of the mods. And I have to support Moddb's actions here. They where just in the firing line of NBCU's DMCA so don't take it out on the site or the staff. Nothing much they can do to help it.
formerlyknownasMrCP	Oct 23 2012, 9:09am Anchor
formerlyknownasMrCP	Damn big ass mainstream media giants in America.. fucking IP Nazis the lot of em. Its just a good thing that traditional media is now all but completely dead. Sooner or later NBC will be begging for you guys to make games for their shows lol.