Hero or Villain: Genesis (Thread for reporting bugs etc)

Or: “Hero or Villain: The Beginning” (maybe? Depends if you’d be definitely making more installments for it though as it sounds more like a series name :slight_smile: )
Or maybe “Hero or Villain: Genesis”

Just thinking aloud though. I’d be fine with Birth of a Hero…or Villain or Hero or Villiain: The Birth too.

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So, if you want to sell (you can make it for your own personal pleasure) a comic book called “Star Spangled Superhero Stories,” you would not be able to. But if you want to refer to your characters as superheroes within the comic, you can do so. This is what allows DC to refer to their character Captain Marvel as Captain Marvel within the comic, but they cannot use the name Captain Marvel in advertising or as the name of the comic, because Marvel holds a registered trademark of that name.

Huh? How does that work? You can’t use superhero on the cover but you can in the book?

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I was actually reading that I guess what they mean is that you can’t put it as the title because according to marvel and dc when a person thinks about superheroes it’s usually one of them , but you can have it in the book just not in the title , kind how DC can use the name caption marvel in the comics but they have to advertise the name of the comic as Shazam

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How about,
Hero or villain, whichever will it be?
sit the f*ck down steel astronaut i’m here to spill the real tea.

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@Dloading Still super bizarre though. Like if you repurposed the names of Harry Potter cast but called it Sorcerer’s world on the front cover, you’d still be getting a cease and desist order from JK I’d imagine. Maybe it has something to do with the odd arrangement where both DC and Marvel wan’t to continue to be able to use the same things. No idea.
(At least hopefully that means you don’t have to scrub every mention of the word superhero from the entire game?)

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Yeah it is kinda bizarre how they trademarked superhero , hopefully adrao only has to change the title and not the whole story

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They got to trademark the word as a title but because the word is in common use to refer to the hero as superhero, they can’t trademark that.

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Since I marked down other I’ll have to provide a suggestion. Heroes and villains: birth, or heroes and villains: origin

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Could also probably keep the original name, but just split it from “superhero” to “super hero”.

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@Dartknight I don’t know if that is too close to break copyright rules…

Otherwise yes, it seems really odd about the use of the words. Anyway, I’m happy that they can be used inside the game, as otherwise I’d be having to go inside and checking again everything!

So, it seems that the “Hero or Villain” part is the most popular (to be honest, I also like it). However, several other suggestions for the second part have been proposed. Given that it’ll likely be a series (I’m thinking of maybe calling the second part “Battle Royale”, “Coliseum” or “Trial of Champions”), what do you think could be the best?

  • Hero or Villain: The Birth
  • Hero or Villain: The Beginning
  • Hero or Villain: Genesis
  • Hero or Villain: Birth
  • Hero or Villain: Origin
  • Hero or Villain: What will it be?

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So hyped!! congrats on getting this far👍

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Well, I could wait a bit longer, but it seems most people have voted for Hero or Villain: Genesis… which was also my vote. So, I think that should be the title! (thanks for all the suggestions thought, it has really helped). Actually, I think I like it much more than Birth of a Superhero or villain, so maybe that copyright problem was a blessing in disguise!!! :slight_smile:

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Excuse me, but could someone pass me the link to the game?

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The game is currently on publishing queue. Please wait for the official release.

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Thank you very much. I’m new here so I didn’t know

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No worries. And yes, the game is being checked. I’m thinking of having a very last round of testing immediately before it is released, but maybe that won’t be until a couple of months time. So, stay tuned…

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With Sharpies, Pens, or Pencils?

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Haha, no. Or maybe that too :smile:. Checked as in its being copyedited (because it’s that good :slight_smile: )

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:slight_smile: Yes, currently in copyedit (as shown in the Upcoming Hosted Games).

I’m told that this might take a couple of months or so, but I guess much depends on how busy the copyeditor is (and, it is a long game…)

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