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Copyright Concerns & New Original Tripod Design
🕑 Added 2023-02-28 00:46:31 +0000 UTCWe are aware that many of you have felt concerns and fears regarding copyright. Many are worried that paramount may take action to shut down the game because of using the 2005 War of the Worlds film tripod design in the game, especially after revealing the new movie accurate model earlier this month. We have addressed these concerns on several occasions and several forums and are aware of the risks of doing so. While we stand firm on continuing to use the movie accurate tripods unless any action is taken, we are still preparing ourselves for a worst-case scenario where we need to swap the movie accurate tripods and switch them for a design that isn't prone to a copyright issue.
For this reason EldeBH has begun work on the back up tripod model. The new machine (Designed by project members local & EldeBH) is obviously designed to resemble the 2005 tripods closely, while at the same time being significantly different enough to avoid any issues. The reason we want to stay close to the 2005 design and not stray towards something completely different is because we have been marketing the game with a specific tripod design and feel & it would be senseless and a bad move to completely switch up the design to something completely different.
The tripod will use the same animations and rig meaning minimal work will be needed to put it in game when it is completed and should we need to replace the movie accurate tripods, the delay would be minimal or non existent. As of now we plan to have both tripods as toggleable options in the game and should the movie accurate tripod need to be removed, we will have it available as a third party mod to install to your game upon release. We've also attached some comparison photos showing the difference between both designs side by side.
Comments
Vee Zee
I love the idea of being able to switch between the two
jack white
That design looks actully really really awesome so it's a great back up idea
FlipSwitch Games
Its really not your concern. Identical is an extreme overstatement. We provided side by side comparisons for this exact reason. For you to actually compare and look at it. Does it look very similar, yes, thats the point. Is it identical, not by any means.
Ryan Bigguy
What makes it a rip off is that it looks identical, down to the little spikes on top. Whatever, not my concern I suppose.
FlipSwitch Games
People in discord are not lawyers or the IP owners who have the ultimate say. Neither are you. There are other games and even a movie out there that use close 05 designs blatantly. Just cause it has 3 eyes, 3 legs, and an elongated head doesn’t mean it’s a rip off of the design.
Ryan Bigguy
I'm sure it is, but that doesn't change the reality of things. It's not different enough and people have been saying that in the discord for weeks. You chose to ignore them, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just saying any half competent lawyer in the world will take you to task over it.
FlipSwitch Games
From Elde: It’s real demotivating to see someone saying you just took the original model and did some “warps” and “applied some greebling” when my friend drew a full body concept and i’ve been making the model from scratch for a few weeks now.
FlipSwitch Games
There are no characters or no locations from the movie
Scan
Changing the model to be more visually distinct from the 05 interpretation is perhaps not enough, it depends on how similar the presentation is to the movies depiction of events, characters and location. So what im saying is, dont 3D scan Tom Cruises face.
Chris Wintle-camp
Looks great team! Very excited about the progress made so far. Fingers are crossed that it does not go legal but glad you have the alternate plan in place
FlipSwitch Games
We can let the IP owners make that decision if it ever comes to that. Thanks for your concern though.
Ryan Bigguy
If you get hit over copyright on the original model, the new one is not different enough to skirt that. It doesn't take a law degree to see it's a copy of the original with a few geometry warps and some greebling applied. Don't get me wrong, it looks sick, but it's not going to be enough.
FlipSwitch Games
The point is to stay as close to the original inspiration as possible. The reason we want to stay close to the 2005 design and not stray towards something completely different is because we have been marketing the game with a specific tripod design and feel & it would be senseless and a bad move to completely switch up the design to something completely different.
Ryan Bigguy
Nowhere near different enough.
Aliens Guy 42
The alt models give me vibes of the reapers from mass effect
Brendan Cook
Honestly I love them both, the Alt Ver. Looks excellent, it maintains that menace and brutality of the orginal design while putting a very appealing twist to it!
