Visionaire Studio 5 Lizenz? Kompatibilität mit anderen Game-engines?

Nun, ich möchte eine Lizenz für Visionaire Studio 5 erwerben, jedoch sind nur Lizenzen für Visionaire Studio 4 Varianten verfügbar.

-Sollte nun eine Visionaire Studio 4 Lizenz erworben werden, um VS5 vollständig verwenden zu können?

-Außerdem.. ist es möglich  eine "single user"-Lizenz zu einer "Multi User"-Lizenz "upzugraden"?

-Nebensächlich: Wie sieht's mit anderen engines aus? Ist es möglich für ein Minispiel, oder puzzle, Dateien von Construct 2 oder gamemaker zu nutzen?

Visionaire Studio 4.x license is valid for both Visionaire Studio 4.x & 5.x, so don't worry about that.

The multi-user license is to do with multiple developers (people working with the editor on a single project), if it's just you that will be using the Visionaire Studio editor then you only need an indie individual license. To answer your question, no I don't believe it's possible to upgrade & the different licenses don't add any additional features/changes to the editor or export options in anyway what-so-ever.

Quick note: the mobile & professional licenses include the multi-user license, while the mobile & professional licenses themselves are only intended for a single game (title) release.

As for cross-compatibility of game engines... I'm not sure how you imagine that will work? It would mean using multiple executable files which wouldn't be very smooth or nice looking to the person playing your game. As for mini-games, Simon has been working on adding box2D physics engine, object duplication, gamepad & keyboard support & various other things that will allow developers to get a bit more creative with the game engine.

-Nebensächlich: Wie sieht's mit anderen engines aus? Ist es möglich für ein Minispiel, oder puzzle, Dateien von Construct 2 oder gamemaker zu nutzen?

Wie AFRLme schon erwähnte, du bräuchtest mehrere .exe-Dateien dafür. Diese kannst du i'm Spiel über Lua starten, mit dem Befehl: os.execute("vispath:example.exe")

Ich hab' da auch noch eine Sache zum Abklären diesbezüglich:

Fürs Indie/Single- und Multi-User Package steht:

-Spiele dürfen als Kleinauflage in physischer Form weitergegeben werden. Ein professioneller Vertrieb als physisches Produkt im Einzelhandel ist allerdings nicht erlaubt und erfordert eine höhere Lizenz.

Heisst das, man darf die Spiele im kleinen Rahmen für einen kleinen Betrag verkaufen? Gibt's da eine Limite? Dürfte man hier schon eine Webseite erstellen und in eigener Promotion die Spiele bewerben und für real Monay verkaufen?

Weiterhin funktioniert der Link zum Branding-Material nicht, da hätte ich gerne einmal hineingeschaut, gibts das Zip noch irgendwo?

http://www.cunics.com/Visionaire_Branding.zip

Ich nehme mal an, dass das mit dem Branding nicht so eng behandelt wird?
Ansonsten gäbe es doch weitere Infos für Mindestgrösse/-Dauer etc., einen aktuellen Zip-Download Link usw.?

Ist es erlaubt eine Pixel-Variante des Visionaire-Logos für ein Spiel mit geringer Auflösung zu erstellen? Weiss jemand wo ich zu Lizenz/ rechtlichen Fragen genauere Infos erhalte?
Habe leider keinen entsprechenden Forenpost gefunden.

With the Indie-Developer (multi-user) license it says, that you are allowed to sell your game on digital marketplaces. 

Ok, simplified version...

indie single user license allows you to develop & release as many games as you like & distribute them digitally for windows, mac & linux via services like Steam, GOG & Humble Bundle, etc.

indie multiuser license is the same as the single user license except multiple developers can work on the game at the same time. What's unclear is whether this is a single computer, multiple computers at the same location or multiple computers at different locations (i.e when you are working with a team of people over the internet). For me personally it should only be applicable to the same location & individual users that will be working directly with the VS editor at different houses/locations should each buy their own single user license. Any team members that won't be working inside of the editor don't need a license.

mobile is currently a per title license (1 license per game) & gives you permission to release a game digitally for windows, mac & linux as well as for iOS & android. The indie multiuser license is included with this.

professional is also a per title license & allows you to release your game wherever & however you like. As a physical boxed copy in a store, as a special limited edition boxed copy on dvd or maybe on a custom pendrive like Chris did with STASIS. Branding is also optional. & like the mobile license, it includes a multiuser license. The professional license is more to do with budget; especially if you have a publisher/have been contracted to work on the game for a company that isn't your own. For example, let's say Coca-Cola asked you to make them a short game which would be released for free. Now despite the game being given away for free, it was still contracted by a third party commercial company & thus a professional license would be required to distribute it.

Technically you could do all of this with any license as the editor is exactly the same for all of the different licenses. Whether you choose to pay & support the engine is down to your own moral principles.

Hmmm...

If pirates cared it would be on piratebay or some other similar site, but it hasn't been so far. Not popular enough to warrant it I suppose & these days crackers can crack/patch anything regardless of DRM (denuvo).

I think if VS ever gets a Steam release version, that the way it works will likely need to be adjusted to something along the lines of dlc being used to determine which platforms can be exported to.

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