{"id":85952,"date":"2019-03-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/337856"},"modified":"2019-03-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T23:00:00","slug":"theres-confusion-around-an-unofficial-adaptation-of-one-hour-one-life-says-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/theres-confusion-around-an-unofficial-adaptation-of-one-hour-one-life-says-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s confusion around an unofficial adaptation of One Hour One Life, says dev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Rohrer, the developer behind One Hour One Life<\/em>, published a blog post earlier today<\/a> detailing the confusing events that\u00a0transpired after launching the commercially successful game under public domain, only for it to be “unofficially” ported to mobile.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a good reminder for developers who choose to upload their work under public domain\u00a0to\u00a0take caution when doing so,\u00a0and use Rohrer’s experience as a lesson in what to do should they find themselves\u00a0in a similar situation.<\/p>\n

Rohrer\u00a0begins with explaining that, just like with his previous games,\u00a0One Hour One Life\u00a0<\/em>is placed in the public domain and isn’t subject to copyright. The content and code of the game are available on a public GitHub\u00a0server for other developers to access.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There have been unofficial adaptations of my work in the past,” Rohrer\u00a0writes. “There was never any confusion about these adaptations, and I generally have no interest in controlling other people, so the more the merrier.”<\/p>\n

But now there’s an unofficial adaptation,\u00a0One Hour One Life for Mobile,\u00a0<\/em>which Rohrer says is causing confusion among players and reviewers alike.<\/p>\n

The aforementioned mobile developers behind the adaptation implemented design changes that strayed from Rohrer’s vision, which was an issue because players thought the decision was approved by him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rohrer\u00a0requested the mobile devs\u00a0be clear in their marketing and promotion of the game to be transparent about how the unofficial adaptation was just that– unofficial.<\/p>\n

Rohrer even provided sample wordings the studio could use, but they responded with wording that was\u00a0“confusing, and not the clear wording that I originally asked for.”<\/p>\n

The unofficial mobile adaptation was published to\u00a0TapTap (an online mobile store) in China as a free demo, with Rohrer\u00a0writing that “the wording on the splash screen AND in the TapTap app store text was missing.”<\/p>\n

“No mention of it being an adaptation, no mention of it being unofficial.”<\/p>\n

So what can Rohrer\u00a0do about it? He admits that he’s making it up as he goes along, but sent over a few solutions to the mobile devs in an attempt to make things right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Be sure to read the entire, complicated debacle over at Rohrer’s\u00a0blog because it’s definitely worth the read. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jason Rohrer, the developer behind One Hour One Life, published a blog post earlier today detailing the confusing events that\u00a0transpired after launching the commercially successful game under public domain, only for it to be “unofficially” ported to mobile.\u00a0 This is a good reminder for developers who choose to upload their work under public domain\u00a0to\u00a0take caution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}