Making Indie Games with Public Domain Content

In this 2022 Independent Games Summit session, award-winning game designer Chris Totten shows how to use public domain content for building unique visual and audio identities, making games from recognizable IP, or even promoting your game to new audiences.
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[@cybrandir]

Sherlock Pooh vs Dracula lets go!

[@SandwichConsumer]

Super smash bruvs

[@Totter87]

Exactly

[@THExRISER]

Now this is a talk for broke ass devs like me!

[@morgan0]

public domain smash bros sounds super cool

[@assakurayoh]

This is AAAaawesome !! It's full of information, it's onpoint and gives a lot of insights !

[@Lunareon]

Thanks for the great talk! This can indeed be a great tool to save time, especially in student projects. Remixing stuff is so much fun, and I hope copyright laws will allow people to do it more in the future.

[@gergop.]

Great talk, I wish more people cared actively about public domain works... Like those in Project Gutenberg, Wikisource...

[@DOSRetroGamer]

I often wondered why there aren't more Robin Hood or Hercules games.

[@theaudioLOVER]

Hercules has been underutilized in gaming but I think we are getting some more game that derive from public domain content. The last but one was Alice: Madness returns but God of War and Assassin’s Creed heavily uses stories in the public domain

[@hikaruyoroi]

Why does the thumbnail have Stadia controllers haha

[@LTEKMU2LOUB]

Can I have myself declared retroactively dead and re id with cloned offspring to either hold copyrights or release them open source for easier transfer to developers' hands. I want to continue working at high level and lived a VERY long and maximally difficult life.

[@Micheal_Volcko]

But do you know about CopyLeft?

[@DctrBread]

public domain smash bros? so darkstalkers?

[@RPGAuthority]

Ohio: Am I a joke to you?

[@ipgaming86]

link still works

[@SanzoArts]

Nintendo and the big companies are already doing big games with asset shop stock assets cranking up the shaders to the maximum, like... sonic frontiers

[@livingsurvivor]

Now Ima use the Bible and all other old stuff to base my game on. *evil laugh. Mwahahahaha

[@jopemeofficial]

Great talk! It's definitely important to look at the options available that we may not know of.

[@JustDaZack]

Good Presentation :)

[@clintsteed1822]

Good talk.