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[Cesque]

Originality is not always good. Look at the games like Fallout or StarCraft - 90% of character names and quotes are from other things like books and movies, and it's fun to find these.

My game is not very original. Or is not intended to be so. Only a few names are thinked over by me (like "Kodra" etc), most others are deducted by logic, and took from other languages. Characters are called after historical or mythical people (you'll find references to Napoleon, queen Victoria, Moebius, Dalton, Marx, Lenin, Rasputin and most other XIX-XX century famous folks), cultures are openly based on existent ones (Kitan = China, Solaria = Japan etc), there are used existing languages and alphabets (latin, futhark) and this all overally is in a world pararell to ours, flavored by some other things.

It's not really "ripping" - it's rather "intelligent use of existing knowledge".

[Haraldur]

Yeah, I mean, the first nine games in the series are pretty much solely based on Norse myth, I cannot really create towns which do not exist, otherwise people might complain, however number 10 is all origional when it comes to place names.

[Cesque]

I take town names from different things, but they are never true names of a town. Think Terranigma.

Also, I try to put up some "chaos theory" into my game... For example, in XIX century France is still ruled by kings, and "Constantinopole" (Arcenciel) is located on an island, because Europe and Africa are separeted, so Moors have never conquered Spain... There was no reformation, as religion is a bit other from what we see... Mekkah was under persian rule (not a nomad city, like in reality, I rhyme like a diety) so Mahomet's God's name is Mazda, not Allah, etc, etc...

[Haraldur]

Hehe, I will be doing a generic fantasy adventure a lot later than this year, probably 2009, if the TK lasts that long.

[DarkElite]

even if it doesnt....ill still play it

[Haraldur]

Yay! Someone actally wants to play my games.  Very Happy

[Mark of the Dragon]

Well, if you turn all of your projects into just ONE game, then I'll probably play them.

See, as far as I know, only newbies plan out more than 2 projects at once. You seem to be a newbie. I do not play games made by newbies. Simple as that. I refuse to play the first demo of "Eternal Blade," which is MY demo, simply because it reflects my old newbie-ness. I am so much better with graphics and shit now.

[Cesque]

You're better with shit? You mean you've got some problems with it some time ago? Heh.

I don't refuse to play any games, except they are absolute idiotic and so n00000bish that they smell like that for kilometers (think minicars, which I played anyway)...

[Haraldur]

Thankyou Cesque. MotD, I am currently concentrating on one game only, the others are future plans.