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Hia, I love this game as a solo experience but find the sun scoring a bit odd and so I was wondering if you could implement the Melodies campaign (see BGG files) here on BGA? I think it would be a lot of fun:) thanks for considering!

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LSchmatkins wrote: ↑13 December 2024, 23:36 Hia, I love this game as a solo experience but find the sun scoring a bit odd and so I was wondering if you could implement the Melodies campaign (see BGG files) here on BGA? I think it would be a lot of fun:) thanks for considering!

House rules are not allowed on BGA, everything has to be authorized by the publisher.

Could we ask the publisher somehow? It would only benefit the reach of the game and improve a somewhat odd solo mode

LSchmatkins wrote: ↑17 February 2025, 17:50 Could we ask the publisher somehow? It would only benefit the reach of the game and improve a somewhat odd solo mode

You can find the publisher of every game in the game info. For Harmonies it's Libellud. You can then reach the publisher in many ways - send them an e-mail asking to make something official, make a petition on some website that offers free online petition, gather some signatures and send them the link to the petition to show that many people actually want it, post on their social media etc.

The problem is, to make anything an official expansion, if it's made by a fan, it can possibly be difficult from the law point of view (copyright issues). Even if the author of the unofficial expansion consents, it may require some additional actions to be able to properly prove in future than they consented, and the publisher may not want to risk getting a lawsuit in 5 years from now saying something like "I never said you can make a profit out of my houserule, only that you can publish it on your site, and because of X I think you made Y money, so I want half of Y". (I know that someone who creates homerules for a game they enjoy and shares it with other people on the Intenet is probably a very nice person who wouldn't have done that, but a company shouldn't bet its business on someone being a nice person).

And even if in this case, for the law of the publisher's country it will actually be easy enough to make this campaign official by the publisher and avoid law problems, it will still need some volunteer to develop it for BGA.

I would also love some solo camping for Harmonies, and if someone actually convinces Libellud to make Melodies official or to create their own campaign, it will be amazing and I hope it happens. I just know it will most likely require more effort by the publisher to make it official than it looks like. (And I hope they will get convinced that it's worth the effort)