WAW OGL

[Troll66]

Hi

Any news on the OGL for battlefield evolution - release date, terms etc

 

[NemesisCH]

Still waiting for answers.... :roll: 8)

 

[Rob_A]

I hear it's ina month or so. Probably a whole load of legal stuff to sort out.
Who knows though.

 

[NemesisCH]

Still waiting for answers.... :roll: 8)

... and waiting! :roll:

 

[dmccoy1693]

Well the terms of the OGL are well known. I suspect the biggest delay is in the compatability license. Between trying to figure out what would be required to make it open for someone to make a western BE minis game while someone else to make a fantasy BE minis game and another a scifi game vs not deluding the value of the logo (like Wizards did with d20 by having the logo on Fantasy, Scifi, and Modern games). Legal things on subjective matters are not easy.

 

[Paladin]

From the 15/05/08 blog post

7. Lots of people have been asking us about SRDs and OGL games. The Traveller SRD (and its Developer's Pack) is almost complete, with just a couple of sections that need finishing off. Expect to see it towards the end of June. The Battlefield Evolution SRD will be following in a similar time frame - it was going to be sooner, but there have been some suggestions made for the SST army lists that I want to incorporate into the SRD.

emphasis added.

 

[emikanter]

There should be two logos, one for military, serious army stuff, or even sci-fi, but that is in touch, and one only for the mechanics. One that's more related to the products, and other that's not... so you could make one more compatible, and the other only vaguely compatible.

For example, if you're making something on vietnam war, you'd use the first one. And if you wanted to do something in the like of giant warriors, transformers, something like that, the second. Realistic vs. Basic Mechanics.

What about that?

 

[Mr Evil]

might be interesting to tinker with these rules to do ancients or wild west !!!

 

[emikanter]

Wild west would be great. I don't know about ancient, tho... I think the rules focus on more free troop mobility. Unless you are talking about barbarians, something like that, I don't think they are appropriate. Romans, greeks, until napoleonic and other linear warfare, those I don't think are so suited for bevo. But I would be delighted if you prooved me wrong!

 

[MongooseMatt]

Hi guys,

With Modern Combat bumped up the schedule, you can expect to see the Logo Licence and SRD appear shortly after its release - most of the work is done on the SRD, so we are pretty set to go.

 

[emikanter]

That's great news!

Thanks for the feedback, Matthew