Hi tom. Have you ever tried the commonwealth series by peter f hamelton? That has some really interesting concepts. The weirdest is going from planet to planet via wormhole, but not using starships, but trains of all things! Everything is done on trains! You really should give that a look. it's very good plot development that's for sure. Shame there's not a game out there like that as it would be rather interesting to say the least.
-----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 13 August 2012 15:36 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Mapping, item collecting and puzzles in games Hi Dark, Exactly my point. That's why I used the Warlord series as an example of what can be done using an old idea, but can be made so totally different as to be an original story in its own right. It just takes a good imagination and some creativity on part of the author in question. Recently I have become a huge fan of the Vatta's War series by Elizabeth Moon. I've listened to the Graphic Audio reproduction of the books, and now I'm reading the version from the NLS library. What strikes me about the series Elizabeth Moon does a great job of starting out with your typical peaceful galaxy with interstellar trade between worlds, and the Vatta family end up getting caught up in a pirates aspirations for galactic conquest that leads to all out galactic war. The only mistake the pirates made is they murdered the Vatta family, and the surviving member, Ki Vatta, is a military genius. What makes Vatta's War compelling is Moon doesn't require a Federation, Empire, or any kind of Star Trek, Star Wars, or Babylon 5 type setting to tell a good science fiction story. She works from a basic concept of a rich interstellar trading company who gets caught up in a conflict with space pirates, and that smaller conflict then leads to an interstellar space war. In other words she started out with a basic storyline about intergalactic trade and slowly lead up to bigger and better things. On 8/13/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi tom. > > Agreed on both counts, indeed I am a big fan of bernard cornwell's arthur > series myself. > > Originality is something of a fine line, what is a general concept that is > reuseable, and what is a copy of an idea, but obviously if you are a good! > author, you'll try to avoid the one and strive for the other, which again > brings us back to the hole subject of a workable game plot and world which, > > though it might have space exploration, ftl travel and aliens, would not > involve a galactic federation, an evil galactic empire, an ancient order of > > semi religious semi magical warriors, a race who prized logic above all > else, a randomly dressed alien wandering around time and space in an old > phone box, a single space station where humanity was one of five central > powers etc. > > Beware the Grue! > > dark. > > > --- > 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://mail.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://mail.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://mail.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.
