Hi Trenton, Actually, Lara was 16 when her father wrote Von Croy, and asked him to train Lara in archeology. Anyway, when I do come up with my own TR clone I have to be careful how I do it so as to side step any major copyright issues. One way is developing a story line similar to TR, but come up with my own cast of characters, and given them each different bios. For example, the evil god Set is a public domain character. After all his character is 4000 years old, and shows up in old Egyptian myths and folk tales. Saving his character from TRLR is totally exceptable since Edos has no copyright rights to his character. His dark minions like mummies are completely public domain as well and I can populate my game with mummies, sword wielding skeletons, snakes, betals, and all sorts of creatures and there is nothing Edos can say about it. However, some of the characters that Lara knows like Von Croy, Jean, have to go since using them would be obvious copyright issues. Maybe Edos would look the other way, and perhaps not. Now, if I made a TR game using those characters I could release a game for free as fan fiction, but as complex a game as TR is I can't really afford to do that. TR is a complex game to write, and I would like to sell. Selling means the game has to be slightly different. As far as the music goes good question. I really like the TR music myself. However, my thoughts on this tricky and sticky subject is this. I can ship the game with it's own sounds and music which avoids any legal entanglements. However, I can post a extra pack of free sounds, that happens to be TR sounds, which end users can download and install if they accept the Edos license. That way I might be able to have my cake and eat it to.
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