Ruddertail wrote: I don't know. Do you think going back to a Redwall theme would be the kind of thing we need in a theme?
I had no problem with the old unit types or scaling. I quite thoroughly enjoyed it.
But I do think the troop type names should be consistent throughout location. That way we wont have to say "don't attack with T2 or T4," etc...
Like instead of Quinqueremes and Triremes, just pick one, and do the same for all of the other troop types.
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Wheel of Time keeps coming up in theme discussions. Theme discussions are the only place I've ever heard of it, honestly. Is it really /big/? Are there online communities for it, or is the name fairly well known?
I think Redwall used to be good. The problem is, its online community seems to have died out in large part...
I really don't know. Fantasy stuff is pretty big, I think, in general. I don't know anything specifically.
Empires: WOA: Attila the Hun(#13)
BFR: ? Founder and Leader of Hungry Huns (HH)
Ruddertail wrote: Wheel of Time keeps coming up in theme discussions. Theme discussions are the only place I've ever heard of it, honestly. Is it really /big/? Are there online communities for it, or is the name fairly well known?
It's huge. It's up to thirteen 1000+ page books and counting, and they are all well-written. It is the only series i would ever even consider writing to author about to congratuate him. It's not even the genre I normally read - I am more into Ian Banks' fiction and nonfiction, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett..
Actually Terry Pratchett might be another good one.
Not the series, the fanbase. Long, good books are well and good, for reading. But for themes, we want a huge fanbase of possible gamers, people who will look at a game with that theme and want to play it, just because of it being that theme.
Empires: WOA: Attila the Hun(#13)
BFR: ? Founder and Leader of Hungry Huns (HH)
Ruddertail wrote: Not the series, the fanbase. Long, good books are well and good, for reading. But for themes, we want a huge fanbase of possible gamers, people who will look at a game with that theme and want to play it, just because of it being that theme.
Terry Pratchett and Robert Jordan both have truly massive fanbases worldwide. People try to pick apart Robert Jordan's books almost as much as Star Wars, although with much less success :*laughs*:
Those are 5 of the 10 first hits on google regarding Wheel of Time. There are hundreds more. The first one is a text based RPG game - their forums might be a good place to start advertising if we decide to go this route. The other 4 are forums. I can get more if need be. I have never been to any of the sites before this, so I am not sure what the communities are like, but is it certainly big.
There is another thing we have to be worried about if we use an existing book/movie/TV/etc. series as the basis for our game; Copyright and Trademark. We may end up infringing on the author/writer/director/studio/whatever's trademarks (names) and copyright (derivative works).
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That would be something I know nothing about. I do know that Robert Jordan passed away recently while halfway through writing the final installment to the series. His book is being finished by another author based on his notes and what he told family and friends. It is scheduled to be released in 2009, so you can expect huge interest and hype around the final book in a series that has been many years in the making. I think I started reading these when I was 10, and I am now 17 - 9 years of suspense is going to keep people very interested in these sites for years to come.
Unfortuneately, I seem to the the only one here who reads it, so we may have trouble keeping members when they find out we know nothing about the books . I have never been one to talk about fantasy (or even read it, beyond WoT), so we may be out of luck there.
The community for this is huge, but we might want to go with something that more of our vets have a working knowledge of.
FEE was based off of Fire Emblem, and tied in to a Fire Emblem Fan site.
As far as knowing about it, it sounds like you and FWF have read it. You could be our chief development types. Though I suppose the rest of us not knowing much about it could be a problem when we start getting people, if they want to chat about the books and all, instead of just about the game.
Nev - Given what RWL and others, not to mention FAF, have done with various stuff, I don't think you really run into copywrite issues. I mean, it's not like we're using half the text in the books or something, just using names of stuff from the books. So far as I know, that can't be trademarked. Title maybe could, but...
Still, could you look into exactly what would be copywritten, and let us know what we could not do?
Empires: WOA: Attila the Hun(#13)
BFR: ? Founder and Leader of Hungry Huns (HH)
. I have never been one to talk about fantasy (or even read it, beyond WoT), so we may be out of luck there.
