Author Topic: Your own video game (Read 15094 times)

WarpRattler · « **Reply #30 on:** August 30, 2009, 06:44:26 PM »

(For anyone who didn't notice, Glorb's idea is largely a ripoff of Brütal Legend.)

TEM · « **Reply #31 on:** August 30, 2009, 09:42:03 PM »

In my game you would fly on a kite through the sky. The environments would range from small village to loose forest. You'd carpet bomb everything you see by hand. Whoever destroys the most stuff wins.

Glorb · « **Reply #32 on:** August 31, 2009, 01:53:51 PM »

Quote from: WarpRattler on August 30, 2009, 06:44:26 PM

(For anyone who didn't notice, Glorb's idea is largely a ripoff of Brütal Legend.)

Except for the game genre, music genre, tone, control input, and entire gameplay system, yeah, it's a very large ripoff.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #33 on:** August 31, 2009, 02:02:30 PM »

I had a couple game ideas as a kid that have, shall we say, been "taken" over. One was "SimFish", where you'd, like, build your own reef and fill it with all kinds of undersea life--I saw some DS game like "My Aquarium" or something like that at Game Crazy the other day that was basically that (though I knew the concept had already been done).

One idea I came up with, though, was going to basically be a 2-D platformer/racing game. Another was a more complex, full-length game built around the concept of those "Purple Pipe Puzzles" (as I like to call them) in Wario Land 4.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 31, 2009, 02:31:20 PM »

I used to have a computer program where you put together an aquarium in pretend-3D and the fish lived in real time. Ate up a lot of the processor, though, especially on a computer back then. For a while, my mom was always worried that Age of Empires would do the same thing when she played it, since it's "real-time strategy".

WarpRattler · « **Reply #35 on:** August 31, 2009, 02:50:42 PM »

Quote from: Glorb on August 31, 2009, 01:53:51 PM

Except for the game genre, music genre, tone, control input, and entire gameplay system, yeah, it's a very large ripoff.

And yet the plot (someone involved with music gets sent back to medieval times to fulfill his destiny and start a peasant uprising) is almost identical, which is just enough for a lawsuit nowadays.

Glorb · « **Reply #36 on:** August 31, 2009, 03:12:19 PM »

I threw that in there when it realized it needed a plot. I actually thought it sounded more like a Red Faction ripoff (subtract the time travel and music, replace medieval peasants with miners and it sounds pretty similar).

The Chef · « **Reply #37 on:** August 31, 2009, 04:26:29 PM »

Maybe you could change the plot so he gets sent to the future instead...?

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #38 on:** August 31, 2009, 09:20:06 PM »

The post-apocalyptic future, where technology has been destroyed and civilization is back to a medieval level!

Weegee · « **Reply #39 on:** August 31, 2009, 09:30:26 PM »

That's actually pretty intense.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #40 on:** August 31, 2009, 11:29:17 PM »

It's actually a ripoff of Nausicaä and stuff.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #41 on:** August 31, 2009, 11:35:52 PM »

Just enough for a lawsuit nowa-wait, scratch that. No one has cornered the post-apocalyptic futures market yet.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #42 on:** September 01, 2009, 12:58:45 AM »

Um, are you sure? Do you pay attention to any fiction?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #43 on:** September 01, 2009, 01:19:13 AM »

I'm almost certain there's a misunderstanding here, though I don't know who's misunderstanding who. I'm trying to say that it's been a common plot device in sci-fi for a long time now and it's a bit late for any lawsuit due to copyright infringement, short of outright plagiarism.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #44 on:** September 01, 2009, 08:21:12 AM »

Quote from: Chupperson Weird on August 31, 2009, 11:29:17 PM

Nausicaä

I haven't watched--let alone learned how to pronounce--that movie yet...