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nmunro
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Bored waiting for a long running test cycle to complete, so...

Monopoly: Software Dev edition.

All properties are companies with apple and alphabet being the most expensive ones, course the online version plugs into stock tickers to accurately reflect the current share price.

All railroads are broadband providers.

You don't build houses or hotels, but patent portfolios and 'landing on another property' becomes 'infringing on a patent'.

Cards:
- Kickstarter refund, collect £200
- Hit by ransomware, pay 1bitcoin.
- You are sued in East Texas, go straight to jail, do not pass go, do not collect dividends.
- Get out of court free card.

Yeah, I'm that bored that I'm rewriting bloody monopoly...

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  • 1
    9y
    I'm totally down with creating that as an online game, have you ever done any web dev?
  • 1
    9y
    I am a web developer, I just lack free time. Too much to do, never enough time to do it all in.
  • 0
    9y
    @nmunro fair enough... I might start it someday and I'll post a github link if I do it
  • 1
    9y
    Awesome idea! I might be up for helping on the web game. Don't have a lot of time at the moment, but it seems like a fun side project so I'd be in :)
  • 0
    9y
    You'd need to be very careful from a copyright point of view, I'm pretty sure Hasbro owns the monopoly rights and you'd have to distance the game sufficiently from a legal point of view to not get sued out of existence.

    You might get away on the parody/fair use concept but I would not risk it personally.

    I'm just not sure how different it would have to be to not be classed as a derivative work under copyright law.
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