Stock photos in games

kkoenigkkoenig Member Posts: 10
in Art, Graphics, Music and Sound

Does anyone know more about using stock photos in games? The more I search the sites, it seems one has to pay $50 per image with an extended license just to be able to redistribute the image more than 10,000 times (+10,000 downloads = wishful thinking)

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  • HopscotchHopscotch Member, PRO Posts: 2,782

    @kkoenig, yes, this is the usual pitfall that the normal fee/subscription for stock images does not cover usage in apps.

    Some providers allow the use of images to the standard fee/subscription if they are not integral part of gameplay, just a background for example.

    However, if the image is a character, prop, texture in a memory game card or image in a four-pictures-one-word type game, etc., then the expensive extended licence applies.

  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934

    yikes at $50 per image you could have some pretty high quality custom art I would think.

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