Alleged infringement player exposes "Three Kingdoms kill" The cottage "bang!"

"Killing of the Three Kingdoms" is a deck of cards, the different characters on the card have different skills, play similar killing, others think of it as a card version of the killing.　　These for the domestic 6 million players, is not needed to explain-according to the "three Kill" production company "travel card" data provided, "Three kills" in two years sold 1 million sets, according to a set of 6 players to use the calculation (each game can be up to 11 people at the same time), 6 million players is a very conservative estimate.　　Shoplifting？ "The Three Kingdoms Kill" is "the bang!" the Cottage edition!　　Some people in the "three Kill" official website angrily jiede. 2006, the third-year students of the University of communication, Huang in class distracted, the initiation of a very "through" the idea-for their favorite Italian card game "bang!" set on the familiar background of the three Kingdoms to create a new game.　　Huang two years of time to produce and launch the "Three Kingdoms Kill". "Bang!", born in 2002, is a very famous game. "game designer Huang told the southern weekend reporter," "Three Kingdoms Kill" although to "bang!" did a lot of excellent improvement, but in the eyes of the industry, it is still a ' translation '. "There are netizens to kill the Three Kingdoms," said the game mode of reference can not be called plagiarism or theft, netizens, "The mystery of the" say: "Have you played Monopoly chess" and "monopoly"? "Three Kingdoms Kill" for reference only game mode, if this should be "bang!" to investigate the original responsibility, I believe that more games to be corrected.　　"The competition of the cottage" soon went abroad, in June 2008, on the internationally renowned board games website "The Game Geek", has the player to post "the bang!" in China: because the card board meeting in China has released a name "The Three Kingdoms kills" the play, "bang!" in China's several big cities are rapidly being sought after. The post drew the bang! of the Silvano, the staff of the Italian Leonardo da Vinci company. Solentino, he replies that "Copyright is a controversial topic in the world of board games, but the Three Kingdoms kill" copy "bang!" game rules and architectural design, only to modify the game background and role name of the practice, constitute the "bang!" copyright infringement. "Three Kingdoms Kill" and "Bang" in the end how much like the controversy with the "bang!" author Emiliano. Charra's appearance culminated in the "unfairness" of the Charra: "If you copy the whole rules of the game, just change some names and make a little change, you are stealing the fruits of other people's work." Charra, the designer of Bang!, said in an interview with a southern weekend journalist that he began to pay attention to the development of "The Three Kingdoms killings" and the "bang!" game in China as early as two years ago. "We think 80% is different, this is not a localized process, this is an original game." "Dubin, CEO of the cruise board, said to the southern weekend correspondent that the board has neverDenial of the game as a reference to the "bang!" mechanism, but the "three kill" will shift the mechanism of gravity to the generals, adding a lot of new mechanisms, but also a high degree of recognition of the players. "It's very common in online games, such as the relationship between the Tower of Eternity and World of Warcraft, which is carved out of a mold, but it also has some original systems and episodes," he said. "In the Three Kingdoms kill" designer Huang, the so-called plagiarism is actually a degree of the problem: "bang!" is not completely original game, its guessing mechanism from killing, the way to attack by hand is not unique. The car is 4 wheels, I design a two-wheeled car, this is plagiarism? I design a car without wheels, is this original or plagiarism? If we just change the subject, but nothing moves, then this is definitely plagiarism and cottage, but our situation is certainly not the case. "Whether it constitutes plagiarism, that is the lawyer's problem, we have an Italian proverb is" imitation is the best flattery, "Everyone can compare two games, make their own judgments. "Charra said, and" kill "whether the" cottage "problem, he is more worried about the" bang! "in China" pirated ":" I personally know that at least two pirated games are directly translated "bang!" into Chinese, even the name and the box are identical.　　"[Page] out of nothing?" Huang is a "board game fan", and in junior high school he used to use cardboard cards to imitate the popular board games, "the King" to draw more than 1000 card games. He is also a "Three Kingdoms game" fan, he played many of the three themes of the game, "Kingdoms", "true three unique" ...　　Favorite is the arcade set card game "Kingdoms War".　　After he went to college, he learned more foreign classic games in a foreign friend's board game, one of which is "bang!". This is a won a number of awards card game, to the Western Cowboy Shootout background, the sheriff, deputy sheriff, gangsters and traitors four kinds of identity. Core rules for gangsters to get rid of the sheriff, deputy sheriff to help the sheriff kill the gangsters and traitors, the traitor will strive to live to the last.　　The game set up sharpshooter, gamblers, autopsy experts and many other roles, as well as guns, wild horses, beer and other props. Huang was fascinated by "bang!": "The mechanism of this game is very good, but the background and the role is a little strange, at that time all thinking is, can make it a close to the Chinese player's game?"　　He told the Southern Weekend reporter. He began to try to replace the role of the game with the people around him, familiar friends, the same dormitory brother, and even the teacher is lecturing on the podium, he was forced into the role of the game, and tailor-made a unique stunt. Soon, he thought of "kingdoms war"-it is more than "bang!" role, and all of his familiar three characters, the Three Kingdoms story in China has a unique mass base, is the perfect theme of adaptation.　　He then plotted the first imaginary character, Liu Bei. "I imagined Liu Bei to be a lessA man who likes to talk but is very powerful, he's kind of cool, he has long hair, and a little mustache, "Huang said," I began to draw a modern version or the feeling of the world, to give each of the three characters to the new design, some people wear a suit, some people wear T-shirts, you can see is the three people.　　"This kind of unrestrained creative method is very painful, he quickly abandoned the modern version of the program, the election of the generals directly with the Japanese game" true three unique "illustrations.　　Three weeks later, Huang completed the first version of the game-matchless version, Lenovo to the killing, he will be the game named "Three Kingdoms Kill." This version and "bang!" is very similar to the player's four identities into the Lord, loyal, anti-thief and Mole. The role of the game is also replaced by Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, the Three Kingdoms.　　Huang reference to the setting of "bang!", for each role set a unique skill, such as "bang!" inside the "Billy Boy", he can be in a round of games unlimited "bang!", and "three kill" in Zhang Fei, can be an unlimited number of "kill". "Billy Boy" in "bang!" (left), can be in a round of games unlimited "bang!"　　, and the corresponding, "Three Kingdoms Kill" in Zhang Fei (right), can be an unlimited number of "kill" Huang has retained his first role in the design-the modern version of Liu Bei, height 1.89-meter, wearing v-collar long-sleeved T-shirt, jeans, long hair, ears than normal ears twice times longer, the head of a motorcycle helmet on the general hat. At the end of 2006, the "Killing of the Three Kingdoms" began to circulate in universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University.　　At that time in Tsinghua Computer Department read Bo Dubin initiative to find Huang, two people together Group Tour card studio, to improve the game.　　The main direction of improvement is to get rid of "bang!" to the card strategy as the core of the game structure, they borrowed from the "World of Warcraft", killing and other game elements, the focus of the game moved to the generals role. They will be "matchless version" of the 40 generals cut to 25, to find a variety of versions of the three stories, including the Yi Zhongtian "three Products" series, and so on, repeated study of each of the generals biography or personality characteristics, and then combined with the game mechanism, improve the generals skills.　　They played a very vivid name for Zhang Fei's continuous killing skills-roaring; and Shangxiang's unique skill is called "marriage", the skill of the use of the method also has the meaning of marriage-she abandoned two cards, you can designate an injured male role, two people each return a little strength. The first principle of skill design is "easy to Remember", and Liu Bei's skills were eventually designed to be "humane"--to the other players, "good at using favors win is the most well-known aspect of Liu Bei's character." The characters of the Three Kingdoms are very complicated, Guan Yu has a proud side, but I cannot give up his most representative bravery because of this.　　"Guan Yu's skills were eventually designed to be" sacred "-any red-card killing. There are two more functional cards to counteract--"unassailable"and "Diehard", at the same time, in the "bang!" only bear the distance calculation of the role of weapons, but also have a unique function. "Generals, skills and weapons improvements, coupled with the background of the Three Kingdoms, so that" kill the Three Kingdoms "can play Beyond the" bang!. "　　"Player Sol told the Southern Weekend reporter. Compared to the "bang!" simple character image, "Kill the Three Kingdoms" painting wind has been widely praised.　　Saul believes that the "Three Kingdoms Kill" illustrations with a strong Japanese style comic, such as Shangxiang has a full of stunning breasts, and Zhang Fei let many players think of "The Japanese arcade game" kingdoms-swallow Heaven and earth, the guy who will suck blood. "Three Kingdoms Kill" takes the Chinese Traditional literature novel "The Tri-" as the content, for reference is the Italian game "bang!" structure and the Japanese game of painting wind, inside of the Little Joe is a Japanese comic in the United States Girl January 2008, "Kill the Three" "Promotion version" officially listed, the first printed 5,000 sets, each set of retail price of 64 yuan, The original 1000 numbered editions were soon sold out and the remainder sold out in less than half a year. Dubin and Huang formally set up a company, a CEO and a chief designer.　　[Page] impeccable? In January this year, thousand-qi animation in Guangzhou released the "Domestic first spy War class" card Game "Wind", the game system design by two from the senior players to transform the game designer Huang and Jingun completed.　　In the game, the player can play "old Gun", "Old Ghost", "intelligence director", and other players to start the psychological war.　　Soon there are players posted, "Wind" Collection of "Three Kingdoms Kill", "Shadow Hunter", "Wine God's Feast" and other famous hand games outstanding elements. "Some people even have fun to show off that he has played a lot of games." "It's not fair for designers to deliberately find the shadow of other games in a game, because the game designer is bound to be influenced by other games," Huang. "You have to play a lot of games, sometimes you don't even know where the inspiration comes from, after the game is done, find a friend to test, he said it is similar to that, you will understand." "Wind" in both conceptual and visual design is easy to associate the same movie and novel, but developers said they do not have any copyright links. "We are inspired by the current popular movies and TV dramas, and you say it works, but the whole board itself is original."　　"Thousand-Qi animation Development Department manager Hui Huisong told reporters.　　"Three Kingdoms Gang" in Big Joe and "Three Kingdoms chop" in Liu Bei Dubin that "The Three Kingdoms Kill" and "bang!" there is no infringement and authorization issues, but there are at least 14 kinds of products in the market that are similar to the three kills, and they will take action against this infringement of the IPR of the Three Kingdoms. Some of the products for the "bang!" set on the "Journey to the World", "Water Margin", "God Kingdoms" and other classical classic background, "bang!" in a name "Indian Invasion" (indians!) "The function card, in the" Three Kingdoms Kill "," Shui Hu Kill "," The West Swims kill "is called" Southern Invade "," Liao Jin South Invades "and" boil ". There are also some products that directly aim at the huge space of online games.　　June 2009, the card board game joint Grand Network launched the "Three Kingdoms Kill" network version, in the next six months, the network appeared "Three Kingdoms Chop", "Card Kill", "Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms Dream" and other online card games. These games and "kill the three" in the characters and play the same, most of them claimed that they "stand on the shoulders of the same giant". "The Three Kingdoms" official website in a "to the player open letter" said: "This game is based on the" bang! "game concept, and the combination of killing rules and formed. The current industry and the "Three Kingdoms" similar products are based on the "bang!" game concept evolution, processing, is similar to the company's products and competitive products. "Intellectual property experts, China Youth Political college lecturer Liu Xiaochun told the southern weekend reporters, on the basis of some foreign desktop game rules, to join the Chinese local culture factors, in the characters, plots, props and many other aspects of the new creation.　　In this case, whether it constitutes an infringement of the original game rights is a complex problem. Desktop game is a series of creative elements of the composition, including game rules, card design, role name and so on. Some elements, such as the original card design, game trademarks, game manuals can be protected through copyright laws and trademark law, but whether other elements can be protected by the existing intellectual property system, there are doubts.　　such as the rules of the game itself, although it may have condensed the game developers a large number of intellectual creations, but if not in the form of tangible forms of writing, or that the imitators do not directly copy the rules of the manual, but in a completely different way of expression to describe, then can not constitute a copyright infringement. "In short, if you do not use the rules of the game by means of direct copying, it is difficult to identify the infringement in the sense of copyright."　　"Liu Xiaochun said. Like "Wind" such a game, if only use the role of the name of the work, and did not use specific plots and scenes, generally not considered infringement.　　This involves the "commercialization right" of the role of the work, which in Japan, the United States and many other countries have achieved a certain degree of recognition in the judicial practice, but in China has not yet such a clear right, so far, can not be through the copyright law, trademarks to obtain protection. At present, "bang!" is about to launch a new expansion package, including some 9 drops of the interesting role of blood. Charra happy to tell reporters, from Taiwan's new Swan Fort Company is currently engaged in the "bang!" official Chinese version of the matter, Chinese players will soon be able to play to the genuine "bang!." (Edit/Zhang Lei)