Enlarge / Survival horror game Descent is one of the first Vampire: The Masquerade fangames to be officially licensed under the Unbound program. (credit: Descent / Itch.io)
Vampire: The Masquerade video game publishing house Paradox Interactive has announced a program that allows fans to create, publish, and profit from video games set in the pen-and-paper RPG's dark, urban-gothic universe.
Paradox said the Unbound program was inspired by the success of the recent Vampire Jam, in which nearly 90 developers had a month to create games based on Vampire: The Masquerade'sWorld of Darkness mythos. "While we could only award one grand prize to Heartless Lullaby, we knew we had to create a platform that empowered our community to work on the projects they love while giving them the support they need to be successful,” World of Darkness Community Developer Martyna Zych said in a statement.
Developers that take part in the Unbound program will receive "a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, nonsublicensable, royalty-bearing right, and license" to the World of Darkness IP "to develop, localize, publish, sell, distribute, promote, and advertise" their game, according to an extensive license agreement.
