You are allowed post about your game in the "Show off your project" forum. The post should link to where your game can be downloaded or hosted (itch.io, steam, dropbox, etc.) but there is not a good way to have the downloadable package attached to your forum post.
If you are asking about making an art submission, then you may share the game's assets as an art submission, and you may include a playable game along with that submission, but the downloadable package should be arranged such that the focus is on the game assets and making those assets reusable and easy to access. The playable game component should be secondary to that.
Submitting just the game without any openly-sharable and reusable game assets is not allowed.
I don't think you have anything to worry about, Ragnar. The point you were bringing up is correct and it will help remind us all to keep it about compassion instead of politics. :)
"I appreciated blue_prawn's original post and I thought it was respectful and quite well pitched."
I agree and I would like to have that link to the itch game remain. As I said, games containing political narrative and artistic expression of political topics are an exception.
"No report button near comments"? Every comment on the site has a report spam button next to it. Where are you seeing comments without a report spam button?
Ah, there it is. I know Bonsaiheldin is not a spammer, but it looks like the place where their assets were stored is defunct and is being used to harvest clicks. Thanks for pointing that out. It should be fixed. Let me know if there are others like that.
Ragnar is not mistaken that political content is not permitted on OGA, however I am delighted to see this is in the form of a game :) ...though the content of the game is itself not quite so delightful by design. :(
Artistic expression and gamification of political topics are an exception to the "no politics" rule. Provided this thread does not devolve into the discussion of politics and stays within the bounds of discussing the game as well as the concern for our fellow community members, this is fine and welcome.
that user's last activity on the site was April 26th 2020. I hope he and our other friends in Ukraine and Russia are doing ok. If any of you are struggling and if there is anything we can do to help, please say so. If you have heard from others recently, please pass along any news.
I don't think the deletion was intentional, just coincided with a temporary topic-lock. I have the original text of it:
I don't know if they are right to do so or not, but some people that scan or take pictures of public domain contents claim copyright on these scan or pictures. They argue that the scan or the pictures are derivative works, and that they can claim copyright on it. It's true in some way that scaning all a book or taking pictures of public domain art sometimes represent a lot of work. I don't know what the law of different countries say about it.
It's not clear to me what you're asking here, or informing us of, but that isn't related to it's disappearance. If you're saying that taking a photograph of a public sculpture makes a copyrighed photo, yes that is correct. You can also convert a physical public domain book into digital scans of the book. The scans can be copyrighted, but they really shouldn't be. How does that relate to the topic of using Public Domain works to create a CC0 derivative?
That aside, I am not seeing what link you're talking about on the space game art pack extended page. can you tell me which comment it is or which commenter made it?
You are allowed post about your game in the "Show off your project" forum. The post should link to where your game can be downloaded or hosted (itch.io, steam, dropbox, etc.) but there is not a good way to have the downloadable package attached to your forum post.
If you are asking about making an art submission, then you may share the game's assets as an art submission, and you may include a playable game along with that submission, but the downloadable package should be arranged such that the focus is on the game assets and making those assets reusable and easy to access. The playable game component should be secondary to that.
Submitting just the game without any openly-sharable and reusable game assets is not allowed.
Nice!
oh, wow. ok, I am interested as well, because I don't know the answer for any of the mascots, then.
Are there FOSS mascots that aren't free and open? If so, how are they FOSS?
I don't think you have anything to worry about, Ragnar. The point you were bringing up is correct and it will help remind us all to keep it about compassion instead of politics. :)
I agree and I would like to have that link to the itch game remain. As I said, games containing political narrative and artistic expression of political topics are an exception.
"No report button near comments"? Every comment on the site has a report spam button next to it. Where are you seeing comments without a report spam button?
Ah, there it is. I know Bonsaiheldin is not a spammer, but it looks like the place where their assets were stored is defunct and is being used to harvest clicks. Thanks for pointing that out. It should be fixed. Let me know if there are others like that.
Ragnar is not mistaken that political content is not permitted on OGA, however I am delighted to see this is in the form of a game :) ...though the content of the game is itself not quite so delightful by design. :(
Artistic expression and gamification of political topics are an exception to the "no politics" rule. Provided this thread does not devolve into the discussion of politics and stays within the bounds of discussing the game as well as the concern for our fellow community members, this is fine and welcome.
that user's last activity on the site was April 26th 2020. I hope he and our other friends in Ukraine and Russia are doing ok. If any of you are struggling and if there is anything we can do to help, please say so. If you have heard from others recently, please pass along any news.
I don't think the deletion was intentional, just coincided with a temporary topic-lock. I have the original text of it:
It's not clear to me what you're asking here, or informing us of, but that isn't related to it's disappearance. If you're saying that taking a photograph of a public sculpture makes a copyrighed photo, yes that is correct. You can also convert a physical public domain book into digital scans of the book. The scans can be copyrighted, but they really shouldn't be. How does that relate to the topic of using Public Domain works to create a CC0 derivative?
That aside, I am not seeing what link you're talking about on the space game art pack extended page. can you tell me which comment it is or which commenter made it?
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