The Choose Your Own Adventure publishers are trying to get the phrase banned from Itch.io

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Reported today on The Verge

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Reported today in The Verge.

The Choose Your Own Adventure publishers are trying to get the phrase banned from Itch.io

Chooseco, which publishes the famous Choose Your Own Adventure series, is apparently trying to stop indie game developers from using the phrase "choose your own adventure." It's sending trademark infringement notices to the Itch.io gaming storefront, and so far, they've resulted in four game pages being suspended.

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran told developers about the takedowns this afternoon. "Warning to any devs using the phrase 'choose your own adventure' to describe their games, Chooseco is issuing takedown notices," he wrote on Twitter. Corcoran tells The Verge that the games include Purrfect Apawcalypse, an "apocalyptic dog dating choose your own adventure game"; a "choose your own dating sim text adventure" game called It's a Date; an unofficial GameBoy game called Choose Your Own Adventure GB; and New Yorker writer Luke Burns' A Series of Choose Your Own Adventure Stories Where No Matter What You Choose You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf, whose plot is self-explanatory.

Corcoran says Itch.io isn't trying to fight Chooseco on this issue. "We are in no way trying to negatively represent the actions of Chooseco. We understand that they need to protect their brand and are happy to work with them to ensure that their trademark is not violated." Chooseco apparently contacted the platform about four months ago as well, which resulted in one game getting suspended. Corcoran says his platform tries to work with developers to remove infringing content. But for now, the pages are being suspended to avoid problems with Itch.io's web host. Chooseco didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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