Sorry if this is a silly question or if it sounds critical, but I`m considering doing an OpenRCT2-style reimplementation of another older game and wondering how (legally) OpenRCT can be distributed for free without harming the original work. What can and cannot be used by older games, and what legal frameworks protect OpenRCT from claims of copyright infringement? This and other useful/up-to-date information can be found where most of the community is: on reddit /r/rct and /r/openrct2. I do not think there are any copyright issues. OpenRCT2 does not distribute code/assests copyrighted by Infogrames/Chris Sawyer. And the openrct2 code that is distributed is written from scratch, so no copyright infringement there either. With the exception of ORCT2, none of this does its good in the sense of sharing, because it is not sold, given or claimed as its own. It simply modifies the code that the person(s) already have. Which is completely legal. EULAs (or contracts) cannot take away any rights you have legally. It should be noted that Atari itself is fully aware of our existence and has supported it by 1) using it in their streams and 2) allowing GOG to offer an OpenRCT2 bundle with RCT2.
This is hardly surprising since OpenRCT2 has been a big driver of RCT2 sales – many people bought RCT2 on Steam or GOG because they lost their original discs or didn`t have a convenient way to play them. Hello! I created this account just to share my thoughts. OpenRCT2 would probably fall into the realm of “fair dealing” because you still need the original content of the game to play. OpenTTD seems to follow the same principle. Halo has a fair use policy that allowed a non-profit spin-off game project (whose name I forgot) to move on after legality was questioned, I guess OpenRCT2 would be exactly like that. (I have no experience with legal issues and haven`t read much) About the demo: I`m not happy with it either, but please note that this is not an official site, but a fan-created site, and we have extremely limited control over what happens on it. The official website is openrct2.io. We (the developers) never link to it from our Discord or Reddit (and all posts linked to it will be deleted). That`s a good summary of laws in general – technically, any action is legal as long as no one wants to lay charges. [2] play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atari.mobi.
There was a problem preparing your code space, please try again. OpenRCT2 uses AppVeyor for continuous integration on Windows and Travis-CI for continuous integration on Linux and macOS. The project has no endorsement or approval from Chris Sawyer and, in our view, it is both unethical and illegal and involves violations that may be criminal in some areas, as well as a violation of the rights of Chris Sawyer and its licensors – all of which are reserved. Pretty much the same game, even the description says: OpenRCT2 is an attempt to recreate RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. Plus, IAP`s terrible reputation means I regularly don`t engage with apps because they say “contains IAP,” which makes things much harder for those who want to get it right, as people will immediately ignore the app because of the label. What we need is for stores to have a way to specify or list the number and type of IAP options available before purchasing the app. Hell will freeze before I play RCT 4 Mobile. Seriously £93.99 on IAP. I didn`t download it, but I guess it`s the pretty standard “coin pack” model, where everything you do in the game costs coins. Oh, 404 dead link. Well, at least Archive got it and Google still seems to host the files: storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-source/v2.
Since the revolutionary bugs were fixed relatively quickly by the development team in the “Develop” branch versions, the majority of the community plays OpenRCT2 with the latest version of the “Develop” branch. To automatically update the game to the latest version, a third-party OpenRCT2 launcher is used (link below). OpenRCT2 has an active community of developers and users who communicate mainly via grids. Gitter is a chat and networking platform for communication between GitHub users and developers. As far as I know, he never shared his opinion on the matter. I want to know his position, and I thought other people in this forum might want to know too. Without him, we wouldn`t have had this wonderful game in the first place. Testers: Testers write tests or play the game to test certain features or behaviors to make sure they are correct. And I`ve always wanted to put Battle Chess on something modern:D The main objectives of the future development of OpenRCT2 are currently to: In addition, the first game was written almost entirely in assembly. I don`t think you can do this without having very high coding standards, so I`m not surprised that the game works really well! The game works really well.
