USCSSS Nostromo - Alien - The Board Game

Started by Corporal Hicks, Apr 15, 2018, 02:13:30 PM

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USCSSS Nostromo - Alien - The Board Game (Read 37,442 times)

Wweyland

Quote from: skhellter on Apr 15, 2018, 04:02:01 PM
i'll wait for reviews.

But i see no miniatures there so my interest is diminished... (You have one of the best monster licenses ever created. Not even interested in creating 1 miniature of it for your board game? errr...)

Also... "4 films in the saga"?

Cover art is terrible. :laugh:
Looks like there actually are some miniatures, although "presales only".

skhellter

skhellter

#16
 :(

a miniature that doesnt even look very good.... is one of the presale "bonus"...

If these guys want people to buy their game then they need to release a gameplay video.

Show us that it IS a fun game... then we'll think about it.

They cant just expect to get by on the license recognition...

SiL

Pre-sale includes an Alien miniature.

*orders*

JungleHunter87

Quote from: SiL on Apr 17, 2018, 10:24:07 PM
Pre-sale includes an Alien miniature.

*orders*

:D

Benobi

Benobi

#19
It was Ash in the Billiard Room with the flamethrower ! ;D

SM

The rolled up jazz mag you mean.  ;D

Corporal Hicks


orzeh

orzeh

#22
do you know if it is legal? from this forum: https://www.trictrac.net/forum/sujet/alien-uscss-nostromo
it seems to be an plagiat from another game?

Shizu

Shizu

#23
It's plagiarized content, please do not give your money to this fraud, the proper author deserves credit.

SM


Tsss

Tsss

#25
"A Communiqué from the French Game Designers Union

This newsletter will be more specific than usual, dealing with the legal protection of boardgames. Regularly, by mail or in our facebook group, wannabe designers ask us « how not to have my idea stolen by a publisher ».

We won't go into details about this topic here. Someday, the SAJ (Société des Auteurs de Jeux, the french game designers union) might publish a comprehensive text on this issue, but usually we mostly try to calm down the anguished designers. In France, since there's no legal way to protect a game rule, the best way to ensure one's paternity over it is to show it around to as many gamers as possible. Since the boardgames business is largely open and honest, any obvious plagiarist would soon be toast. Anyway, it almost never happens.

Well, it looks like we are witnessing one of the few exceptions to this long standing rule. A game publisher, Wonder Dice, is launching a preorder campaign for the game a young designer, François Bachelart, has shown them a few years ago. The publisher even proposed him a contract then, but they failed to find an agreement and it wasn't signed. From what we know at the moment, it looks like the publisher simply « stole" the game from its designer, developing and publishing it without his agreement, without his name and of course without royalties.

The SAJ firmly disapproves of such practices, and gives all its support to François. Since legal actions would be expensive and their result unpredictable due to ambiguity of boardgames legal status, the only thing we can do is to inform designers and gamers of the bad dealings of Wonderdice, and hope they will deservedly fail.

We want to make clear that this sad story is only an exception. Relations between game designers and publishers are usually trustful. As a matter of fact, Edge, a major French distributor, has declined to sell the game. All the gamers and game designers who have heard of this story are already spreading the word about Wonderdice obvious dishonesty, and are of course restraining from ordering the game. The boardgames world reacts in the best possible way, and it's not a surprise for us."

Source (non-partagée en public)
https://www.facebook.com/bruno.faidutti.7/posts/10156392037084884

SiL

... good thing I didn't finish that preorder. That's pretty shitty.

SM

So they're claiming a dude made an Alien boardgame and tried to get it published, and after that fell through the publisher went ahead and did it anyway without him?

SiL

That is the claim, yes.

By the looks of it he pitched it long before the publisher had the rights to the property, then when they got the rights they pulled this out.

SM

Should be dated correspondence to support his claim, you'd think.

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