Hi Nicol, I thought about doing a game with Harry Potter as the main character but did not do it for several reasons. 1. I wanted to base it on exploring the Hogwarts castle and when Harry is at the school, so are about a thousand students and teachers. Electronic Arts has the budget to record 1,500 different voices for their Harry Potter game but I do not. That is why the game occurs during the Summer Holidays so there would be less work in creating it. 2. I thought the way I finally did the game would be closer to fan fiction than ripping off the Electronic Arts sounds so I did not use their sounds or anything for the Sarah game. 3. I wanted to make a game exploring Hogwarts but since it would be very close to Shades of Doom, I made it different by having a female rather than a mail character and by making the game less of a killing spree than an exploration game that is rare in the blind game arena. 4. I decided on having a female American as the main character since Sarah agreed to record the script and no teenage British boy did. Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:32 AM Subject: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a game with harryas character > > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > Phil, my friend, go ahead and create a game with harry and friends as > characters if you wish. You don't need to be afraid of getting into hot > water for copyright infringement. Let me proof my statement. Someone > from south Africa went and wrote his own harry potter books using some > content of jk rowling. My colleague told me that harry wade his way > through a rose garden with a sword. The rowling books proofs this wrong > as harry only used a sword to kill the basilisk. My sister-in-law told > me that her friend's kid watched harry potter movies and that harry's > friends's names is the names of demons. The harry potter books from jk > rowling once again proofs this wrong as the weesley children, Neville > longbottom and hermien was harry's only friends. So this is why I feel > so strong about it. If its too much work for you to change the > character to harry and his friends, then I understand if you prefer not > to do it but if you are only afraid to get into hot water, my friend, > there's no reason to be afraid. You just tell the person that > approaches you, that someone from south africa commited bigger > copyright infringement than you for he wrote his own harry potter story. > If you prefer not to use harry and friends as characters because of the > fact that he is after voldemort's horcruxes, I do understand it, but the > point that I just wanted to make is: Phil doesn't need to be afraid of > getting into hot water because an unknown dood from south africa has > commited bigger copy right infringement than phil. > If I find out who did that, I will report him to Joanne rowling. > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
