Hi Al,
Yeah, copyrights can be a serious pain in the backside sometimes. It all
really depends on how strongly the company wants to press the issue, and
weather or not the content is in the public domain.
For example, in the 1990's there was a show called Hercules the
Legendary Journies. Legally you can write all of the fan fiction games
and stories you want because all of the main character's are all in the
public domain anyway. However, Xena Warrior Princess, which was a spin
off tv series of the Hercules show, is copyrighted up the butt, because
the author's of the Hercules show created Xena from scratch so to speak.
Anyway,you are right. It doesn' have to be an issue of picking one or
the other. It is feasable to do both game ideas in time. one
specifically fantacy and write one sci-fi. I guess it is justa matter of
deciding which to do first, or more like deciding which idea I would
like to do first. Grin.
Allan Thompson wrote:
Hi Tom,
That copyright stuff sounds like a mess. With the litigious nature
of companies and people today, I can understand why you want to avoid
that mine field as best you can.
When it comes to which game to make, there is nothing saying that you
couldn't create both over time. If I understood it correctly, the
online game you mentioned could have a lot of less work to it, and
gamers with sufficient brain power can crank out those modules for
expanding the online universe. At least, I think that is what you
said about it. I do prefer the stand alone game, but it doesn't mean
none of us would try out the online game, and it does sound
interesting too.
I never thought much about the sounds of games. I just assumed that
there was this giant reservoir of game sounds just sitting around
ready to get used. I admittedly know nothing about all that, but is
it possible to create the sounds needed, or to get some friends
together, give them a bunch of medieval weapons and record what
happens,lol. If I remember right, I think it is the foley artist in
movies that make sound effects, and a while back I saw a show where
they use various things to mimick sounds in a movie, like footsteps,
twanging of bows, hitting a metal sheet with a drum stick to recreate
thunder, things like that.
al
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