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,
Hi Dark,
Absolutely. That's why I've been thinking off and on of doing a good
Castlevania clone. The game is so generic that no one can come and pull
the plug on it by screaming about copyrights. It is like, 'copyrights?
What copyrights?
Take the Belmont's out of the picture, drop the
True indeed Tom.
Actually, sinse many developers, particularly for arcade games rarely
do their homework as far as research goes, you might even improve upon
things.
For instance, instead of just cobbling together a skeletal horseman boss and
giving him a good name, as was done
Hi Dark,
Hmmm...That's an interesting suggestion. If there is one thing I like
better than programming it is studying and researching history. As long
as I could remember I've always had an interest in archeology, history,
and anthropology. That's why movies, books, and games like Indiana
Well Tom, simply because a plot is there doesn't mean people have to bother
with it unless they wish to.
Take the mega man series for instance. There is extensive information on
every single robot master, what order they wer ebuilt, what their
personalities are like, what purpose they bwere
Hi Dark,
Oh, I wasn't talking about what the end users would think of a complex
plot or story for a arcade game like Castlevania, but how much work goes
into it from the developers end. As a game player the more complex and
interesting the plot the better. However, as a developer I'm pretty
I understand your issues with Mota and your desire not to embark on a long
research issue.
However it firstly seems you've got a lot of information on the subject
yourself naturally, ie, the long discourse on Elizabeth Bathory,
and secondly this is certainly an area others could
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
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
Just changing this subject line so I don't keep reading messages about a
subject I'm not interested in.
Thanks,
Che
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