   publishing games from iran
  hi guys we are a small game dev team in iran and we published a few games here but i wonder is there a way for us to publish our next game with worldwidelicense in another word is there a engine that give us their license or publishing a game worldwide will always have to stay as a dream for us ?   
  by the way u can see our latest work here http://www.mediangames.com/   ;  The game looks great, congratulations :). I would critic but im not the one sitting here with a single decent game to my name let alone a published one :PAs for publishing your future projects world-wide under some universally accepted license, I wouldn't know. Though im sure Tom Sloper does and perhaps he will answer your question at some point.Keep up the good works :)   ;  This is a bit problematic, since this goes beyond the usual license questions. The US/UN has imposed a general trade embargo against Iran, and this includes any transfer of services and software, commercial as well as open source. The fines and other legal ramifications of circumventing these restrictions are extremely harsh, so I assume that you will not find any publisher based in a UN-affiliated country taking that kind of risk.There are exceptions, but they require specific trade permits from the department of commerce of the publishers respective country. I don't know about the legal specifics of this complex subject though. IANAL.Good luck with your project !;  You can always leave Iran. At least until you have a government more concerned about trading with the most important consumers of this kind of products.The game looks excelent. It portrais a kind of ambientation I haven't seen before.Keep it up!   ;  You could perhaps find someone in a country which is a trade partner of Iran, but can still trade with the US/UN etc.And is it also forbidden to use digital distribution? (is there paypal etc in Iran?)   ;Quote:Original post by TigranYou could perhaps find someone in a country which is a trade partner of Iran, but can still trade with the US/UN etc.AFAIK, this is also illegal, and would count as circumvention.Quote:Original post by TigranAnd is it also forbidden to use digital distribution?Of course. It's also not a question about commercial vs. free. Sourceforge, for example, was recently forced to deny IP connections from Iran (and other countries on some DHS list).Quote:(is there paypal etc in Iran?)Paypal (aka eBay inc) is an American company, and is as such not allowed to make business in/with Iran.As politics are right now, the OP doesn't have any sensible option, I'm afraid.;Quote:Paypal (aka eBay inc) is an American company, and is as such not allowed to make business in/with Iran.As politics are right now, the OP doesn't have any sensible option, I'm afraid.God, I'm currently deployed right now and it's like hell using Paypal to do anything over here.  Everything is IP blocked, if Paypal doesn't accept it, I sure as heck am not going to put my credit card information in manually -- I don't believe that the middle easy believes in firewalls from what I can tell security wise.At any rate, you'd probably have to move out of country to market your product -legally- with any big buyers, though I'm sure Russia and China would be much abliged to buy.  Some actually sensible options that are close to you movement wise is Turkey or Kuwait.  Both have great relationships with NATO.   ;Quote:Original post by Christopher LoydGod, I'm currently deployed right now and it's like hell using Paypal to do anything over here.  Everything is IP blocked,Do you guys need to use the local networks down there ? That sucks. I thought that you were being routed over some US based server with a US IP. With all what the war costs, they could at least give you decent internet access.;Quote:Original post by Yann LQuote:Original post by Christopher LoydGod, I'm currently deployed right now and it's like hell using Paypal to do anything over here.  Everything is IP blocked,Do you guys need to use the local networks down there ? That sucks. I thought that you were being routed over some US based server with a US IP. With all what the war costs, they could at least give you decent internet access.Our actual MILITARY internet that we use is via a US IP, and is secured by teeth and nail.  Our paid for, individual internet, is done via a local Iraqi ISP(though I actually think that it's a Turkish based vendor, like 90% of them here) and pretty much has no security whatsoever.EDIT: Although I'm a network administrator over here, it seems as though I supply my company with almost everything computer wise, half my nights are spent with people knocking on my door a 3am in the morning asking me why their computers are popping up with Trojan viruses and what they can do to fix their computer and make it go faster, lol.  I have to work with crappy BestBuy bought, 300 dollar laptops that couldn't load a .txt file much less browse the internet and help them solve their problems.  Furthermore, it was leaked that I'm one of the senior electronics technicians back home for a warranty company that repairs cell phones and video game systems...so when I'm not wiping/cleaning/scrubbing someone's computer of malicious software I'm repairing their cracked iPod screens, red ring of death Xbox's, and everything else in between.  I actually had to mail my soldering gun and heat gun over here just to fulfill some of the repairs I've done. Definitely a FML situation.To further this, I am currently paying 180 bucks a month for a 512kb upload/512kb download over here. Extortion? yes.  But welcome to vendors who supply U.S troops with stuff :)Unfortunately the military internet here is restricted to military business, though me being a network administrator and working closely with our firewall guys I've had them unlock Gamedev.net from our servers firewall ban list ;) I gotta have something to do over here while I teach 50 year old brass that makes 10x as much as me how to create shortcuts on their desktops, haha!   