It is allowed and encouraged. The reason is because, although your music wasn't made for games, it would still be useful in a game.
The phrase 'not useful in a game' is referring to is stuff like 30 second samples that cut off abruptly, or music with an audio watermark. None of that can be used in a game because the players would be like "WTF?" :)
If you visit this demo page, you can see this HTML5 game can display the full credits within the "Credits" screen. I've also included the full list (with embedded links to the original source, author's page, and license details) as plain HTML below the game's window (scroll down to see it.)
It is usually not necessary to embed links like this, but it is nice to respect your artists with hyperlinked attribution. However, some assets do require you to include a URL to the source, so if you aren't going to make a hyperlink, you can just include the plaintext URL next to the attribution text for such assets.
I have intentionally used overly verbose attribution and have even included assets I have not yet implemented into the game just to inflate the size of the credits text, yet it constitutes no more than 31 kilobytes for several pages of credits. This is far less than the size of a fairly typical tileset or other graphical resource file your game might use, so I'm a bit skeptical that including credit information within the game itself would be much of a file size hinderance, regardless of the platform the game is on. I mean, are you using some incredibly inefficient method of storing attribution data? (like taking screenshots of a text file, then displaying the screenshots as images of text, instead of just displaying the text itself on the screen)
If you're hosting your game on Itch.io or similar, you may not be able to include the plaintext credits in html below your game window, but there is still a description area on itch's game pages, so you can include a link to the full credits and attribution text file, or even include the full list of credits right in the description itself:
Remember that OGA has excellent tools for tracking and generating attribution text for all the assets from OGA you may use in your game:
Click on the "Collections" menu along the top of the OGA site.
Click on "New Collection" to create a new collection for your game project.
Name the collection, and add a description and link to your project if you want.
Browse OGA for all that awesome art and game assets!
As you find assets you like and think you might use in your game, select your new collection from the dropdown on the left of the submission, then click the "Add to collection" button.
This will keep track of all your game's assets so you can find them easily again... PLUS it will generate a list of credits for everything in the collection.
Scroll to the bottom of your collection and click the "Download Credits File" link.
If you want, you can pare down a lot of the fluff in this file as long as you're confident what you're left with still adheres to the attribution requirements of the assets.
So... yeah! Several options! Let me know if you have any other questions about this. We're always happy to help. :)
Why wouldn't you be able to put the credits in the game itself? My html5 games have the credits in the game itself.
If your game doesn't have an in-game credits screen, then I would recommend putting the credits in the same page as the game but just further down the page or just below the game portion of the page.
If you're talking about an html5 game hosted on itch.io, you can list ask the attributions in the "Description" section of the game details page, or even as a downloadable txt file link on that page.
The site has a hard time with certain special characters like curved quotes and em dashes. A hyphen is what your keyboard shows, but some word processors like to change hyphens to em dashes without telling you. When you copy-paste text from such word processors, you introduce a character that makes the site barf white all over the screen.
This should be in the Feedback forum, not General Discussion. [Topic moved]
Submissions you've contributed are tracked on your profile, so... My Submissions
The number of views are not tracked at all, and will remain so.
The number of downloads of a submission is tracked on the given submission's page.
Links to users that have commented are listed next to the comment.
If you're wanting all this data on one page instead of on individual submission pages, there is not sufficient benefit for such a feature to justify the effort involved in implementing it.
HAHAHAHA! Definitely not. Here is a more translator-friendly version of the same text:
Effective communication is important. I found those images using archaic techniques. This gave me an approximation of the source of the images. It is not necessary to abandon those images, but if you prefer to proceed to new art searches, we can leave those behind and recruit people to help you find useful art. I am confident it will progress quickly.
Clarity is key. I found the image using some old school techniques to get a ballpark idea of their origins. You don't need to give up on them cold turkey, but if you feel like tabling the item, we can blow this pop sickle stand and get others to jump on the bandwagon to find you some replacement goods faster than you can say bob's your uncle.
strange. can you screenshot the page just before the last click that led to that message?
checking server logs now...
can you take a screenshot of the page and message?
It is allowed and encouraged. The reason is because, although your music wasn't made for games, it would still be useful in a game.
The phrase 'not useful in a game' is referring to is stuff like 30 second samples that cut off abruptly, or music with an audio watermark. None of that can be used in a game because the players would be like "WTF?" :)
Certainly! :)
If you visit this demo page, you can see this HTML5 game can display the full credits within the "Credits" screen. I've also included the full list (with embedded links to the original source, author's page, and license details) as plain HTML below the game's window (scroll down to see it.)
It is usually not necessary to embed links like this, but it is nice to respect your artists with hyperlinked attribution. However, some assets do require you to include a URL to the source, so if you aren't going to make a hyperlink, you can just include the plaintext URL next to the attribution text for such assets.
I have intentionally used overly verbose attribution and have even included assets I have not yet implemented into the game just to inflate the size of the credits text, yet it constitutes no more than 31 kilobytes for several pages of credits. This is far less than the size of a fairly typical tileset or other graphical resource file your game might use, so I'm a bit skeptical that including credit information within the game itself would be much of a file size hinderance, regardless of the platform the game is on. I mean, are you using some incredibly inefficient method of storing attribution data? (like taking screenshots of a text file, then displaying the screenshots as images of text, instead of just displaying the text itself on the screen)
If you're hosting your game on Itch.io or similar, you may not be able to include the plaintext credits in html below your game window, but there is still a description area on itch's game pages, so you can include a link to the full credits and attribution text file, or even include the full list of credits right in the description itself:
Remember that OGA has excellent tools for tracking and generating attribution text for all the assets from OGA you may use in your game:
If you want, you can pare down a lot of the fluff in this file as long as you're confident what you're left with still adheres to the attribution requirements of the assets.
So... yeah! Several options! Let me know if you have any other questions about this. We're always happy to help. :)
Why wouldn't you be able to put the credits in the game itself? My html5 games have the credits in the game itself.
If your game doesn't have an in-game credits screen, then I would recommend putting the credits in the same page as the game but just further down the page or just below the game portion of the page.
If you're talking about an html5 game hosted on itch.io, you can list ask the attributions in the "Description" section of the game details page, or even as a downloadable txt file link on that page.
what is the search you're running that doesn't show your asset?
The site has a hard time with certain special characters like curved quotes and em dashes. A hyphen is what your keyboard shows, but some word processors like to change hyphens to em dashes without telling you. When you copy-paste text from such word processors, you introduce a character that makes the site barf white all over the screen.
This should be in the Feedback forum, not General Discussion.
[Topic moved]
Submissions you've contributed are tracked on your profile, so...
My Submissions
The number of views are not tracked at all, and will remain so.
The number of downloads of a submission is tracked on the given submission's page.
Links to users that have commented are listed next to the comment.
If you're wanting all this data on one page instead of on individual submission pages, there is not sufficient benefit for such a feature to justify the effort involved in implementing it.
HAHAHAHA! Definitely not. Here is a more translator-friendly version of the same text:
Haha! Ok. Now I understand.
Let me know how the translator does with that. :D
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