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"When it comes to fan-created video games utilizing established IP, the vast
majority of instances tend to result in a narrow set of responses from the
original creators or publishers. The Nintendo route is to go fully nuclear as
often and immediately as possible, destroying any and all attempts. Take 2
follows a similar path, albeit one that also includes actual lawsuits. Sega, on
the other hand, mostly ignores fans creating their own games using Sega IP,
even occasionally slightly endorsing this behavior. And that’s… sort of it.
Nuke or ignore.
But some developers and publishers out there are willing to try other avenues.
Recently, Paradox, creators of the popular TTRPG and video game franchise
Vampire: The Masquerade, rolled out a kind of fan-developer affiliate program
called
World of Darkness Unbound, in which fans can make licensed fan-games
in the
Vampire universe and even profit off of them."
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