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---- Thanks phil. I learnt something new today. So if I understand the members' correctly, the south African harry potter stories which are different from the original jk rowling books is fan fiction and there's nothing wrong with fan fiction? I didn't mean to intimidate you, you have your reasons for keeping the character sarah and I do understand it clearly. I understand your reasons completely, and also the fact that harry have to find voldemort's horcruxes, it won't make sense for harry to explore the castle. He already knows the castle very well, sarah doesn't so it adds more meaning to the game if the character doesn't know the castle. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Vlasak Sent: 09 May 2007 02:31 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a game withharryas character Hi Nicol, I thought about doing a game with Harry Potter as the main character but did not do it for several reasons. 1. I wanted to base it on exploring the Hogwarts castle and when Harry is at the school, so are about a thousand students and teachers. Electronic Arts has the budget to record 1,500 different voices for their Harry Potter game but I do not. That is why the game occurs during the Summer Holidays so there would be less work in creating it. 2. I thought the way I finally did the game would be closer to fan fiction than ripping off the Electronic Arts sounds so I did not use their sounds or anything for the Sarah game. 3. I wanted to make a game exploring Hogwarts but since it would be very close to Shades of Doom, I made it different by having a female rather than a mail character and by making the game less of a killing spree than an exploration game that is rare in the blind game arena. 4. I decided on having a female American as the main character since Sarah agreed to record the script and no teenage British boy did. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:32 AM Subject: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a game with harryas character > > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > Phil, my friend, go ahead and create a game with harry and friends as > characters if you wish. You don't need to be afraid of getting into hot > water for copyright infringement. Let me proof my statement. Someone > from south Africa went and wrote his own harry potter books using some > content of jk rowling. My colleague told me that harry wade his way > through a rose garden with a sword. The rowling books proofs this wrong > as harry only used a sword to kill the basilisk. My sister-in-law told > me that her friend's kid watched harry potter movies and that harry's > friends's names is the names of demons. The harry potter books from jk > rowling once again proofs this wrong as the weesley children, Neville > longbottom and hermien was harry's only friends. So this is why I feel > so strong about it. If its too much work for you to change the > character to harry and his friends, then I understand if you prefer not > to do it but if you are only afraid to get into hot water, my friend, > there's no reason to be afraid. You just tell the person that > approaches you, that someone from south africa commited bigger > copyright infringement than you for he wrote his own harry potter story. > If you prefer not to use harry and friends as characters because of the > fact that he is after voldemort's horcruxes, I do understand it, but the > point that I just wanted to make is: Phil doesn't need to be afraid of > getting into hot water because an unknown dood from south africa has > commited bigger copy right infringement than phil. > If I find out who did that, I will report him to Joanne rowling. > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
