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infinity421 wrote:

Soulzarath wrote:This would be an extremely great idea. However I understand that Containment Breach runs under a free license agreement therefore Regalis would have to set up some different agreement and maybe create another license for Xbox. On the xbox360 marketplace you can find an indie market whichi indie games (like CB) are there to download and play for just 80 Microsoft points (1 dollar). It'd be great for people with out a computer who'd like to play CB on their xbox. Anyone agree? I know most of you are console players but I'd prefer my xbox over PC sense you can communicate with players online while playing all these games with out have to join steam or anything like that. Add ArchDevil808 if you want to play w/ m via xbox live.

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I apoligize for any vocabulary mistakes I may have made. I'm using my xbox internet explorer which doesn't correct anything.

So, about that...
Regalis doesn't own the SCP objects. He didn't make them. The authors at the actual SCP website did, and let me tell you, the creative commons license comes to bite us in the arse at almost every opportunity, as it would if he tried to port it over onto the xbox. Theoretically, if we were to port it over to the xbox, royalties would need to be paid to the authors of each and every SCP object appearing in the game, which would be extremely difficult with173 as it was posted anonymously on 4chan in 2007.

So, yeah.
Not gonna happen.

Regalis wrote:First of all, everything in the SCP wiki is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported-license, which allows making commercial use of the work. So yes, SCPCB could be sold and it would be perfectly legal. The authors would probably not be very happy about it though.

I think you've ignored the biggest issue about porting SCPCB to another platform: how to do it? Porting a game that's designed to run only on PC to Xbox isn't an easy task. I don't know much about programming Xbox games, but I'm quite confident that it would at least require rewriting the entire game in some other language and using some graphics library that is compatible with Xbox360. I don't think I have enough programming skills to do the port, and I'm not very eager to start remaking the game almost from scratch, but if someone is willing and capable of doing it, you have my approval.

Juicy wrote:

Regalis wrote:First of all, everything in the SCP wiki is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported-license, which allows making commercial use of the work. So yes, SCPCB could be sold and it would be perfectly legal. The authors would probably not be very happy about it though.

I think you've ignored the biggest issue about porting SCPCB to another platform: how to do it? Porting a game that's designed to run only on PC to Xbox isn't an easy task. I don't know much about programming Xbox games, but I'm quite confident that it would at least require rewriting the entire game in some other language and using some graphics library that is compatible with Xbox360. I don't think I have enough programming skills to do the port, and I'm not very eager to start remaking the game almost from scratch, but if someone is willing and capable of doing it, you have my approval.

So you don't need the approval of the people who created the articles n stuff?

Regalis wrote:First of all, everything in the SCP wiki is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported-license, which allows making commercial use of the work. So yes, SCPCB could be sold and it would be perfectly legal. The authors would probably not be very happy about it though.

I think you've ignored the biggest issue about porting SCPCB to another platform: how to do it? Porting a game that's designed to run only on PC to Xbox isn't an easy task. I don't know much about programming Xbox games, but I'm quite confident that it would at least require rewriting the entire game in some other language and using some graphics library that is compatible with Xbox360. I don't think I have enough programming skills to do the port, and I'm not very eager to start remaking the game almost from scratch, but if someone is willing and capable of doing it, you have my approval.

InnocentSam wrote:

Regalis wrote:First of all, everything in the SCP wiki is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported-license, which allows making commercial use of the work. So yes, SCPCB could be sold and it would be perfectly legal. The authors would probably not be very happy about it though.

I think you've ignored the biggest issue about porting SCPCB to another platform: how to do it? Porting a game that's designed to run only on PC to Xbox isn't an easy task. I don't know much about programming Xbox games, but I'm quite confident that it would at least require rewriting the entire game in some other language and using some graphics library that is compatible with Xbox360. I don't think I have enough programming skills to do the port, and I'm not very eager to start remaking the game almost from scratch, but if someone is willing and capable of doing it, you have my approval.

Oh good. If the C++ port goes well, I might attempt a port to PS Vita.

InnocentSam wrote: snip
Oh good. If the C++ port goes well, I might attempt a port to PS Vita.