Competitions with good rewards.

BYOND shop, I want that BYOND shirt

The BYOND shop ended up costing more to run than it ever made, that's why it's gone.

I want a BYOND baseball cap and hoodie. Always have.

Maybe selling tile-sets that come loaded in a demo for anyone to just copy, paste, and use? Lummox could probably just purchase a set then re-sell it to the community or something, maybe even having a few free sets. would promote some newbies to start their own games, from scratch, as well.

In follow up to Zagros, Offer "professional" resources from members or something as a purchase, art or framework stuff

Popisfizzy wrote:

Zagros5000 wrote:

Lummox could probably just purchase a set then re-sell it to the community or something

Very few licensing agreements would allow for such a thing. In order to do this, Lummox would probably have to outright commission pieces and pay for the rights to them, which would be very expensive for decent quality art.

Wouldn't be an issue with CC-BY; products. Although that's more of a community thing(as in artists within the community concocting an art-style something simplistic) and then making it Creative Commons Attributed.

Edit: Or just a hired pixel artist in general, creating a style simplistic enough to be used by beginner or intermediate level artists/simplistic art-resources. Due, to the art-styles simplicity users could submit art-works to be included in the resource. Something like the LPC-Artstyle on opengameart.org



Source: http://lpc.opengameart.org/

Release as a CC-BY-NA licenced art product allow for commercial use upon purchase. I believe RPG Maker does something similar, don't quote me on it though.

Edit: I should have said CC-BY instead of CC-BY-NA

It might not be an issue, but I think these licenses typically apply to derivative works, not just redistribution. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm looking through the license to try and put the pieces together and figure out exactly what is allowed, but I feel that just paying for them and trying to resell them would at minimum fall in a gray area for a CC license.

As for RPG Maker, I'm 99% sure you're allowed to use their pre-supplied graphics with the caveat that you use it in an RPG Maker game. You can sell it with the game, but you can't, for example, just outright sell the artwork by itself, or use the artwork in a game that doesn't use the RPG Maker engine.

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As for CC, I think the important sections (using this as my reference point), are 1(a), 2(a)(4), and 2(a)(5). They seem to be the ones that would specifically restrict this sort of thing, i.e. your work has to really qualify as a derivative work before you could sell it.

I feel like managing such a system would be a huge drain on BYOND's staff and finances, most artists wouldn't want to work for free and administrating copyright would be a major hassle.

Not a good idea, need more gooder ideas.

Right no, I understand the good intentions behind the idea, but the issue is that it's supposed to be making money, and having Lummox dip into the already VERY dwindling BYONDfund even if only a little, is already counterproductive to that end.

Member benefits were nice, but the drain they had on the server didn't warrant the upkeep, and again, I'm looking for things to spend my money on, I already have a membership.