Hi, A new RPG? Sounds like a good idea...I must confess that after awhile you want something more than Entombed, even with all the possibilities.
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:56 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Community Projects Hi everyone, Speaking of cummunity projects I've got a number of these in mind I've been thinking about for quite a long time myself. Since Ken has brought the subject up of community projects on list I thought I might share afew of my own ideas, and see what you think. For instance, when I was growing up in the 80's and 90's I was a real super hero junky. I use to buy comic books, action figures, play video games, etc all containing popular comic super heroes like Superman, Batman, the Flash, Wonder Woman, you name it. I rarely went anywhere without a comicbook with me to read. So not surprisingly when paper and pen roll playing games started to become really popular in the 80's and 90's I got books for both the DC Universe and Marvel Universe roll playing games. Unfortunately, to make a long story short through a number of reasons I really didn't get much chance to enjoy them. I lost my sight so I couldn't look things up easily, my friends lost interested in those roll playing games, and these days I don't know of a guild in my area interested in playing such games. To add insult to injury most of those roll playing games have migrated to the internet like DC Universe Online and odds are hell will freeze over before the developers will make it accessible enough for us to play. Which brings me to my point. As I already own the source books for these games I've often thought I could create an open source RPG game using the stats and characters from the books, and write my own adventures for the DC and Marvel Universe characters. Since the project would essentially be open source, a full comunity project written as fan fiction, I don't think copyrights would be that big an issue here. If I wrote it as a text-based project without official music, sounds, and voice clips it is even less likely DC Comics or Marvel Comics would come after me. However, before I would even put the time into a project of this size I'd like to know if there is any community interest in something like this. I know roll playing games that we can play are few and far between, and what RPG games there are like Entombed, Angband, and Sryth are set in a Dungeons and Dragons style universe. I'd like something a bit more with a super hero theme personally. Of course, text-based roll playing games aren't the only thing on my mind. I've been thinking that what we need is some good accessible retro remakes of classic arcade games such as Asteroids, centipede, Double Dragon, Legend of Kage, etc. Not tomention some of the super hero themed games like Batman Return of the Joker or Spiderman verses the Sinister 6 etc. These might be more complext to crate as we'd need sounds, music, etc but I think it would be a great experience for the community as a whole to have some of these classic games. To enjoy them as I once did. Any thoughts/suggestions here? Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.