True tom, however so many of the concepts are fairly generic I don't see the
problem.
You could for instance have a skeletal horseman with a lance, ---- just not
called Raodain, a giant flying bat boss just not referd to as the zap bat
etc.
I'm surprised that the dracula novel is pd, ---- but if so that offers some
interesting possibilities, ---- Mina dracula as a boss? or Lucy?
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Castlevania was: Developer time was: My Opinion of
Q9
Hi Dark,
Actually, Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is now in the public domain. So
not only is Count Dracula in the public domain so are the other main
characters in the novel. I guess what people need to be aware of there are
two copyrights to think about when developing games or any other
multimedia.
The book itself is in the public domain. However, various radio
broadcasts, movies, and of course any games using Dracula are not. So even
though Castlevania uses a lot of common public domain enemies etc I still
have to be careful how much of the original game I reuse for my own clone.
<smile>
dark wrote:
Nice idea Bryan, however my point was that other than in the castlevania
series, whips as holy weapons that have power over even normal undead
like skeletons and zombies, let alone vampires etc are rather
unknown, ---- I'm not sure why nintendo chose to give Simon a whip in the
first place other than it being cool rather like Indiana jones' whip is
cool.
As though Tom would obviously for copywrite reasons create an audio
castlevania game which did not use the Belmont Family, ---- or possibly
the Vampire killer whip, ---- why not include a more biblically logical
weapon such as King Soloman's spear, the sword of Richard the Lion heart
etc.
I'd hope Count Dracula was enough of a general public or historical
character (there was afterall really a Count called vlad tepes dracula),
for him to be useable in the game, even if all the other character's from
stokers novel, ---- Johnathan Harker, mena and lucy etc wouldn't.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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