Hi, Well, there is Jedi Quake maintained by Cara Quinn. It is basically quake with a Star Wars type theme to it. As for any outright Star Wars games for the blind there aren't any. I was working on one called Jedi Strike, but when I attempted to license the Star Wars copyrights via Lucas Licensing they flatly refused. Besides being very expensive Lucas Licensing only deals with one company at a time. For example, since Lucas Arts holds the exclusive copyright for Star Wars vidio games my company USA Games can't license the copyright, because Lucas Licensing says it would be a conflict of interest. I would be competing with their games, and never mind the fact my games for the blind wouldn't even scratch their markets. Besides witch the couple thousand I would earn off of making said Star wars games wouldn't even pay for the royalties they wanted to legally license the Star Wars copyrights. Bottom line, what I learned is clearly Lucas Licensing has nothing in place for small time developers wanting to create a game using a Star Wars theme. It is clear all of their dealings are with companies with millions of dollars to spend, and thus will pay millions to Lucas in royalties. A guy expecting to make a few thousand isn't even worth their time of day unless I use their copyrights illegally, and then they can sue me for copyright infringement. It is a lose lose situation, and Lucas Licensing is a bunch of jerks if you ask me. I have thought about releasing the game as freeware under the creative commons license, but even that is no absolute protection. That may give them less of a reasont to sue, but they still can come after me with a cease and desist order that the courts would uphold stating I have to remove the content and destroy all source code, all known copies, etc. I'm not sure it is worth the trouble for a blind developer to risk that or not.
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