- Introduction
- Download
- Mailinglists
- Roadmap
- [Legal issues](##Legal issues)
Atlantik is a KDE client for playing Monopoly-like games on the monopd network.
Purpose of the Atlantic board game is to acquire land in major cities in North America and Europe while being a transatlantic traveller. One of the game modes plays like the popular real estate board game based on Atlantic City street names.
Atlantik was previously known as KMonop and might still be referred to as such in some documentation.
Atlantik can be downloaded from: https://apps.kde.org/atlantik/
Atlantik is developed in the KDE invent games group in the module https://invent.kde.org/games/atlantik.
A game server monopd is available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/monopd/
There are mailinglists available for discussion of Atlantik development. The kde-games-devel list is for general discussion and development of the codebase.
See https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel
for information on subscribing, posting and list archives.
The TODO file gives a nice approximation of desired functionality and priorities. It can be used as roadmap or checklist.
Many people have expressed their concerns about possible copyrights, trademarks and patents applicable to Monopoly® and the possible implications for Atlantik (and monopd) development and distribution.
I believe that Atlantik and monopd are completely clear of violating any copyrights, trademarks or patents and that there are no legal issues that might affect development or distibution of either application.
Although Atlantik is not yet as generic as I envision it, you will find no code in Atlantik at all which even remotely refers to Monopoly® game rules, definitions or object names and looks. Atlantik only visualizes these aspects during gameplay, much like a web browser visualizes Internet content. Any artwork used is original and has been specifically designed not to closely resemble the artwork of Parker Brothers.
Monopd implements two games currently. One of them indeed has a close resemblence to Monopoly® and features the streets of Atlantic City just like Monopoly®. However, this is a folk game predating Parker Brothers Monopoly®. Parker Brothers has no rights to this folk game other than their copyrighted visual enhancements.
The Monopoly® Trademark
Atlantik was renamed from KMonop to avoid possible legal action over the Monopoly® trademark. Wherever the phrase Monopoly® is used, it should be accompanied with the registered trademark symbol, except there where I use "Monopoly-like" which is my preferred term as monopd boards can be completely customized and changed in a configuration file.