Hex-a-hop

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	A great game! posted by Minder @ 78.88.59.54 on Aug 29 2008 9:25 PM
Reminds me a classic One Step Beyond :D
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	It's GPL posted by mbabuskov @ 212.200.136.73 on Jul 5 2007 10:26 PM
I just got a reply from the author. The game's code is GPL. There is a new download available with license information (and a small bugfix).
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	Time killer posted by bojster @ 80.53.230.66 on Jun 29 2007 5:50 AM
Now that's what I call a good puzzle game. :-)
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	Addictive posted by jamyskis @ 84.61.59.8 on Jun 21 2007 9:25 PM
I felt somewhat compelled after somewhat stupidly losing the first level after six attempts to GIMP this together in about thirty seconds, in the vein of the famous train and zeppelin posters. I found it amusing anyway. The game itself is excellent, very addictive and well put together. I'd give a B+ for the presentation, as I can see the author has been a great deal of effort into the graphics and all-round presentation - little touches such as the water reflections are nice. I'm sure someone else mentioned it though - this game isn't half as much fun in silence. Put some sound and music in!
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Re: Addictive posted by jamyskis @ 84.61.59.8 on Jun 21 2007 9:26 PM And just a word of warning: I do believe copyright law in some countries states that if you do not assert your copyright (that includes mentioning the license that the product is under) then the product falls into the public domain. I'm wondering if this is what the author is intending but he should make a declaration pretty quickly soon.   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 88.96.136.14 on Jun 23 2007 12:14 PM   You are completely wrong. Unless otherwise specified by a license, the original author retains all rights.   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 74.37.156.81 on Jun 23 2007 12:42 PM   Hey, Mr. Amateur Internet Lawyer: there are other countries in the world besides yours, and some of them *gasp* have different laws!   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by mbabuskov @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 23 2007 1:47 PM Ok, but it's not good. If those are the rules, I could for example take out a GPL game, throw out all the GPL text from it and give it to someone else. That 3-rd person could then assume that he can do whatever he wants with it.   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 74.37.156.81 on Jun 24 2007 8:38 AM   No, you couldn't. GPLed works are copyrighted, the GPL merely grants you an exception if you obey its terms. Thus you are asserting your copyright if you release a GPL program, and it wouldn't fall into public domain as under this type of law.   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 24 2007 10:44 AM   If I were to remove GPL text how would you know it is GPL when I give it to you. Let's suppose that the author of Hex-a-Hop simply removed someone else's copyright from all files and dumped the code on us. We don't know the license, thus we shouldn't assume it is public domain. In your previous message you wrote that it should be considered public domain in some countries? I wonder what countries are those?   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 74.37.100.194 on Jun 29 2007 10:50 AM   Well if you took a Bugs Bunny poster and airbrushed out the "(C) Warner Brothers" text it'd be no different. Except more and better lawyers would come to visit you when somebody saw it. And as far as countries, I'm not sure. I've heard it before, that there are some countries wherein a creator who does not claim copyright over his works is assumed to be releasing them in public domain. It's a reasonable way of handling things, IMO. That would not be the case for your GPL-with-the-license-snipped code, since the creator *DID* claim copyright over them. You're just infringing his rights by removing it.   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by Anonymous @ 213.151.217.130 on Jun 30 2007 12:00 AM   There is of course the internationally binding Berne Convention. There are some (very few) countries that have not signed it (Eritrea?), but mostly they have their local copyright laws, following the general trend of "all work is protected unless stated otherwise".   [Reply]   Re: Addictive posted by jamyskis @ 84.61.53.122 on Jun 30 2007 11:23 AM The Berne Convention only lets different countries' copyright laws interoperate with each other. As far as stripping out a copyright notice from a title, this is how lengthy court battles begin. And they do get lengthy when both sides claim they own the copyright.   [Reply]

	Great Puzzle game posted by ragadaa @ 84.167.115.66 on Jun 19 2007 10:46 AM
Thanks for programming this game, i really enjoyed playing it! :)
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	Great! posted by Anonymous @ 84.187.87.74 on Jun 19 2007 4:47 AM
This is a really nice puzzle, which is wonderful for small breaks during work/learning. I would give it 5 stars if I weren't "anonymous". :)
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	license posted by Anonymous @ 80.219.74.253 on Jun 18 2007 1:33 PM
i tried as well - no reply
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	Great game posted by mbabuskov @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 15 2007 10:52 PM
Perhaps music/sfx isn't really needed for this type of game. It's like playing minesweeper or solitaire. Anyway, puzzles are great and it's really good that the game introduces new elements as you go: green, blue, walls, lasers, turns, ice, etc. so it never gets boring. Also, ability to skip some puzzle when you just 'don't feel like it' and play something else is very nice. I'd love to see this game being installed by default in many distros, rather than all those dummy KDE/Gnome puzzle games.
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Re: Great game posted by Anonymous @ 83.189.139.111 on Jun 16 2007 4:21 AM   indeed! i wish it had a free software compatible license, and i'd do the debian/ubuntu packages.   [Reply]   Re: Great game posted by mbabuskov @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 18 2007 6:52 AM I tried to contact the author directly by e-mail (regarding the license), but got no reply yet.   [Reply]   Re: Great game posted by Draconishinobi @ 69.148.135.182 on Jun 18 2007 9:07 AM Hehe, I did too ... again, no reply :-( Now, if something is released without a license, can we assume it is in the public domain ?   [Reply]   Re: Great game posted by mbabuskov @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 18 2007 10:49 AM No, unfortunately we can't.   [Reply]

	Great one! posted by Pit @ 81.207.48.18 on Jun 15 2007 10:21 PM
Wonderful puzzle game, with excellent graphics and lots of brain twisting. Just two points: Sound would indeed be nice, and also some sort of personalizing the thing (e.g., use $HOME/.hexa/ for save files etc.) Pit
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	Very nice posted by Anonymous @ 82.208.250.137 on Jun 14 2007 11:50 AM
Cute, interesting. Add music and sfx and it will get 5 stars from me.
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