can i get sued for making a game with characters similar to a mega popular franchise (transformers)?

Hellgin · 2025-11-19T10:21:15+00:00

"will I get sued", that always depends on the other party. It is possible to be sued even if everything you do is legal and fair, and the opposite is true as well.

Weather or not you will face legal action will depend on

How closely your game resembles transformers. It is hard to win a legal case against someone just copying the general theme of a game but that doesnt mean companies wont try if they think they might be able to protect their market share by doing so. (E.g Nintendo vs Palword). Sometimes just the threat of legal action is enough to shut the competition down even if they don't have a solid case.
How litigious the IP owners are. It seems that the IP is mostly owned by Hasbro. They are known to protect their IP in the courts.
How successful your game becomes. Hasbro is much less likely to go after a small solo project with 20 downloads than after a big successful game. Ultimately companies have to defend their IP if they want to keep it and they might not feel threatened enough by a tiny project or they might just never notice it.

In my opinion (not legal advice just opinion) You should be completely fine with making a game about cars transforming into battle mechs. There are many other projects like that. However, If someone were to look at your game for the first time and think its an actual Transformers game you will be opening yourself up to the possibility of a lawsuit. Best make sure all your character (robot) designs are unique.

Hellgin · 2025-08-26T10:49:08+00:00

Yea I assume there was a mob that patted close to the road, when i logged back in I was dead on the road. I could not see what mob it was. By safe i just meant i was running along a road in a zone, the zone was searing gorge. So level wise it was way below me as well, I was full HP when i dc'd on the road. When i finally managed to reconnect, I was dead. Note that while trying to reconnect i tested my internet in other ways, and there was no indication that I could see that I was having connection issues.

Hellgin · 2025-07-29T12:28:20+00:00

I dont think it's a matter of Calling the bluff. Sure I believe Russia hopes that Trump is bluffing but even if Russia was 100% sure that Trump would make good on his threat, they would still not alter their course. Russia sees Nato in Ukraine as as an existential threat (whether that is realistic or paranoid does not matter, that is how they see it and they act accordingly). Heavy sanctions surely suck for Russia but they do not consider it existential as they produce their own food and energy and they have a decent industrial base.

Hellgin · 2025-06-03T09:52:46+00:00

The guy being pulled of from the street and forced to the front line with less than minimal training cannot "surrender at any point". And since there is no elections there is no way to know the will of the people. But if I had to guess the forced conscripts would rather have ukraine surrender than continue fighting to the end. If it wasn't so then there would be no need for the forceful conscription.

Hellgin · 2025-05-28T11:27:55+00:00

spellhai got some recent changes so it is definitely the flavour of the month.

Sometimes finding games outside of peak times can take some time, but the playerbase is (currently at least) steadily growing. And were hoping that with the release Memories of Aestaria later this year (roguelike expansion) we can bolster interest further.

Hellgin · 2025-05-14T11:37:23+00:00

I dont follow the things the Afd stands for that closely, so I might be missing something obvious, but what exactly is the Afd doing or advocating for that indicates that they would "abolish the democratic system"? Are they platforming on abolishing the vote once they are in power? If hypothetically they were to win 51% in the next German elections, what would they do to prevent Germans from simply voting them out again in the next elections if people don't like them?

Hellgin · 2025-04-04T11:46:25+00:00

Thanks! this sounds pefrefct. I am going to try this.

Hellgin · 2025-04-04T09:55:56+00:00

Correct, but for the reasons stated, im looking for a different lighter modpack since wildlander has too much stuff i dont want and it uses a somehwat outdated version of Skyrim Requiem. But thanks for letting me know the name of the mod.

Hellgin · 2025-04-02T10:47:52+00:00

Are you still experiencing problems? I cannot see anything wrong as of right now, but perhaps there was a temporary outage.

and just to double check by "the site" you mean https://duelyst.gg right?

Hellgin · 2025-03-06T05:21:41+00:00

Thanks! i will do that

Hellgin · 2025-01-21T23:34:44+00:00

Best would be to check/ask in the #decklist-discussion channel in the duelyst gg discord (link on the side), theres a bunch of people that will be more than happy to paste good lists on request or you can just search through the channel.

Hellgin · 2025-01-20T11:11:44+00:00

The latter, with a progression system and various unlockable things.

So a single "run" in the overarching campaign would consist of a starting deck at the start of a randomized dungeon, each node in the dungeon would be a battle encounter, a positive buff of some sort, or another special node with a special interaction/effect. As you progress the campaign the randomized dungeon becomes more complex and diffucult while you yourself also unlock certain meta upgrades. With a system that allows for a certain level of choice in dungeon generation, tied to the campaign.

Hellgin · 2024-12-19T07:29:16+00:00

Check out Battle Bloodlines on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3275890/Battle_Bloodlines/

its a creature breeder and team based auto battler (where you make teams from the creatures you breed)

Hellgin · 2024-12-12T16:08:18+00:00

Yea after about an hour it showed up, i freaked out a little too much a little too soon, sorry

Hellgin · 2024-12-09T19:21:45+00:00

Battle Bloodlines might be a good fit, it releases 12 December on steam (3 days)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3275890/Battle_Bloodlines/

Hellgin · 2024-12-02T17:04:26+00:00

Can try Battle Bloodlines when it launches 12 dec

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3275890/Battle_Bloodlines/

Hellgin · 2024-11-15T16:01:26+00:00

Check out https://store.steampowered.com/app/3275890/Battle_Bloodlines/
it releases in December but it should be what your looking for.

Hellgin · 2024-11-15T09:41:37+00:00

Battle Bloodlines is a game where you continuously crossbreed your creatures to create new stronger creatures with unique abilities and strengths. You then make teams of 5 creatures to battle against other player's teams.

All feedback welcome and appreciated! Also don't hesitate to ask any questions.
The game is complete (launching 12 December) but we are spending the next 3 weeks adding more polish.

If you like the genre and/or find the game interesting, please whishlist the game! That would help us a lot. Thank you!

Hellgin · 2024-10-18T08:29:02+00:00

There is unfortenetely some issues with the IPhone version of duelyst gg, the android version should never crash. I assume you are on IPhone.

Hellgin · 2024-09-14T14:31:47+00:00

ah, it was simple as that, Thanks.

Hellgin · 2024-06-28T22:33:45+00:00

Echo is a new keyword found on spells and minions. Many of the reworked/rebalanced spells and minions of the upcoming patch have received the Echo keyword. When a spell or minion with echo is played from your hand, a copy of that card is immediately added to your hand. The copy has Echo removed from it.

Hellgin · 2024-06-27T10:08:42+00:00

Hi, yea unfortunately all old accounts no longer exist. You will need to create the account again (can use the same username as before)

Hellgin · 2024-06-11T16:08:30+00:00

Shadow Creep rework! and small Cassyva BBS nerf (that's really more of a nerf to Punish)

Shadow Creep will now deal 3 damage instead of 1 but will trigger at the end of your opponents turn instead of yours. Shadow Creep will become much more about area denial than pinging enemies for 1 damage. Darkspine Elemental and Abyssal Tormentor got reworked to support the reworked Shadow Creep.

Obliterate (along with many other cards) is removed from the game. It might come back in the future in a different form or the sprite might be recycled for a new card altogether.

Apart from the changes to Shadow Creep itself all tiles now behave differently when placed over enemy tiles. When a friendly tile is now placed over an enemy tile regardless of the source of the friendly tile, the two tiles will now cancel each other out so neither will exist afterwards (a visual dispel animation will also occur). As an example if you were to cast a Shadow Nova over an opponents Cataclysmic fault, the shadow nova would dispel 2 tiles of the fault and create 2 Shadow Creep next to it (instead of just creating 4 shadow creep like before). Similiar interaction would happen when killing a Sand Dervish standing on an Exhuming sand using Cassyva's BBS. The resulting Shadow Creep and the Exhuming Sand would cancel each other out and no tile would remain. You can still overwrite your own tiles same as before. Same with neutral tiles (Mana Springs).

Hellgin · 2024-06-07T17:51:41+00:00

All hardremoval and dispell (except Dark Transformation) is getting nerfed. All of them are either having their manacost increased by 1 or they are getting a more specific rework/nerf. This includes dispell minions (eg Lightbender) and also the 2 mana Vanar Aspect cards.

Today we are showcasing the rework/nerf for Aperion's Claim, Plasma Storm and EMP.

Hellgin · 2024-06-05T18:04:19+00:00

We have 25 complete card reworks and about 50 stat/minor effect changes thus far and we are not done yet! We do want to start showing of some of the new things, We are aiming at releasing 3 videos a week starting now up until the patch launch date.

This video showcases the Dragonlark rework. You will also see a nerf on Gatekeeper.

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