{"id":74081,"date":"2019-12-10T03:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-choose-your-own-adventure-publishers-are-trying-to-get-the-phrase-banned-from-itch-io\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T03:08:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:08:59","slug":"the-choose-your-own-adventure-publishers-are-trying-to-get-the-phrase-banned-from-itch-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/the-choose-your-own-adventure-publishers-are-trying-to-get-the-phrase-banned-from-itch-io\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choose Your Own Adventure publishers are trying to get the phrase banned from Itch.io"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PurrfectPurrfect Apawcalypse | Itch.io<\/small><\/p>\n

Chooseco, which publishes the famous Choose Your Own Adventure series, is apparently trying to stop indie game developers from using the phrase \u201cchoose your own adventure.\u201d It\u2019s sending trademark infringement notices to the Itch.io gaming storefront, and so far, they\u2019ve resulted in four game pages being suspended.<\/p>\n

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran told developers about the takedowns this afternoon. \u201cWarning to any devs using the phrase \u2018choose your own adventure\u2019 to describe their games, Chooseco is issuing takedown notices,\u201d he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. Corcoran tells The Verge<\/em> that the games include Purrfect Apawcalypse<\/em>, an \u201capocalyptic dog dating choose your own adventure game\u201d; a \u201cchoose your own dating sim text adventure\u201d game called It\u2019s a…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Purrfect Apawcalypse | Itch.io Chooseco, which publishes the famous Choose Your Own Adventure series, is apparently trying to stop indie game developers from using the phrase \u201cchoose your own adventure.\u201d It\u2019s sending trademark infringement notices to the Itch.io gaming storefront, and so far, they\u2019ve resulted in four game pages being suspended. Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":74082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t