Am I allowed to reproduce a BGA game on other websites?

[Usay Dress A H]

Am I allowed to reproduce a BGA game on other websites?

[N_Faker]

Ask the license holders.

[whatshisbucket]

If the game is owned by someone, I imagine you would need to ask them to do so legally. Of course, you can reproduce public domain games (like anything with a standard 52-card deck), which constitute a decent portion of the games on this site.

[RicardoRix]

what do you mean by 'reproduce a BGA game'. Replay the game, or create your own on-line adaption?

BGA do not own any of these games. They asked the license holders (publishers and/or game designers) if it was OK to make an on-line adaption.

[Usay Dress A H]

If the game is owned by someone, I imagine you would need to ask them to do so legally. Of course, you can reproduce public domain games (like anything with a standard 52-card deck), which constitute a decent portion of the games on this site.

What about Seasons or Iove Ietter?

[Jest Phulin]

Those are not recreating a BGA game. Those are recreating games owned by Libellud and Alderac Entertainment Group, respectively. In which case the answers already given by RicardoRix and whatshisbucket apply: you need to ask the owner for a license.


That is, of course, if you want to do it legally. If you don't care about copyright laws and intellectual property theft....

[Usay Dress A H]

Those are not recreating a BGA game. Those are recreating games owned by Libellud and Alderac Entertainment Group, respectively. In which case the answers already given by RicardoRix and whatshisbucket apply: you need to ask the owner for a license.


That is, of course, if you want to do it legally. If you don't care about copyright laws and intellectual property theft....

Sorry, I don't know how to contact Libellud.
And, I tried to ask Gigamic for Papayoo, but I couldn't speak French.

[Giordano Bruno 1974]

Why would you want to recreate an online game that already exists online?

[Usay Dress A H]

Why would you want to recreate an online game that already exists online?

In case The BGA website either shuts down or gets blocked In China.

[Giordano Bruno 1974]

Why would you want to recreate an online game that already exists online?

In case The BGA website either shuts down or gets blocked In China.

Everything is blocked in China. You need a VPN even to do a google search. But if you have a VPN then you can ignore the great firewall of China.