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[Lord Zaros]

Well im thinking about making a new game. The game consists on a Magic game like Harry Potter but ... you are not Harry Potter, you are yourself. It will be a mixture of both. Erm... i dont know if this counts as a definition but some players thought that Stellar Dawn would be like Runescape but in the space, and its not like that it has the same logic but its not like that. Well in this game players will think as Runescape but in magic, and they will be wrong because it will have the same logic but nothing to do with Runescape.
First of all i want to say that im not making the game. Im not making the ... graphics, sounds, etc that has to do with the game. Im creating the story of the game. For example: How it would be when you start the game. You will start in a school and you will have to choose some houses and etc... It would be like writing the game. The places, monsters, teachers, history, etc.

Well comment what you think and make a lot of questions.

[TehBigGun]

Then it's not a game, it's a story.

[Lord Zaros]

No it wont be a story... I dont know how to explain it well in english but im making the places, monsters, teachers, buildings and else so when a player creates a character he will be able to start playing on the things that i created before (places, monsters, teachers, etc...). Do you understand now?...
Im making the game in written, so then its a lot easier to make it in "software".

[Lord John]

Huh?
Don't understand it at all...

Well in this game players will think as Runescape but in magic, and they will be wrong because it will have the same logic but nothing to do with Runescape.

Makes no sense to me :S

[TehBigGun]

Huh?
Don't understand it at all...

Well in this game players will think as Runescape but in magic, and they will be wrong because it will have the same logic but nothing to do with Runescape.

Makes no sense to me :S

Yeah with you there.

[Lord Zaros]

Yeah, that what i thought it would happen.
Well, it will be a school of magic. It will be like "Hogwarts" but this time you arent Harry Potter or his friends, this time its you and a new adventure. You will have skills, like you do in Runescape, to train and achieve more spells.
In the school will be 4 houses, that i dont know the names yet. You can choose one house, and each house has a secret subject. For example the house that will be like "Slytherin" will have dark arts. This is a little description of how the game will be like...

[Shadow of Sofia]

You can always give it a try and test it, but I'm not sure if it would work...

[Lord Zaros]

Well, i dont know yet. Im writing it right now. Maybe in 2 years i finish writing it and then we start making it. Im 95% sure that it will work.

[MrThomas]

I'd suggest you actually get people together to build the game first.
Believe me, it's a lot harder than it looks.

[Lord Zaros]

I'd suggest you actually get people together to build the game first.
Believe me, it's a lot harder than it looks.

I know that its a lot harder than it looks. Im trying to get people, also thats why i made this thread, but its very hard to get people that support you and help.

[Lord Zaros]

Well i read what i wrote and actually it doesnt explains nothing at all. I will put here what i wrote about the beginning.
Note: I said that it was not going to be a Harry Potter game, well it will be now. Then when you read this i will ask you some questions...

The game will start in the diagon alley where you can buy the wands, cloth, ingredients for potions, books, etc (everything needed for the school and some candies...). Then at the end of the alley there is a fireplace where you can teleport by "Flue Dust" to the 9 3/4 platform so you take the train to Hogwarts. When they reach the lake the students take a boat to the castle. Then they enter to the dinning room, they are welcome by the teachers and they choose their houses. Then the students will go to their rooms which at the entrance of the common room is a door with no lockpick and they have to answer the question right to enter. (The rooms and the common room are described by a picture so there is no need to write it)

I will say no more because i want it as a surprise. Now i will have to ask you some questions:

1) Do i need a kind of permission to make a Harry Potter game? Because when people made "Runescape Private Servers" Jagex Ltd could cancel it like it happened with Dodian... So im scared that they do that with my game.
2) Where do i have to go so they "make" the game? To Jagex? To Blizzard? To Electronic Arts? (Just throwing examples). Which one? Because i need a whole team to make it.
3) More will be asked soon.

[Lord John]

There are so many "Magic school" books and stuff that there should be no problem with copyright unless you directly rip ideas.

[Crash Jordan]

Just try not to use anything too specific, and you'll be right.

Anyways, I kind of get what you mean. Can't say I'd play it, if I wanted to go to school, I'd do it irl, not in a game.

[Lord Zaros]

So i will be in a problem. Because the game is totally taken from Harry Potter. Is there a way that i can get a kind of permission or something?

Anyways, I kind of get what you mean. Can't say I'd play it, if I wanted to go to school, I'd do it irl, not in a game.

Haha you are right. But this wont be like a normal school. This will be Hogwarts!!!
Of course, i agree with you, if i want to go to a school i will go to a real one. But this wont be like a school, in the classes you take them to learn spells, or you simply dont take them and you read the books. Then there are a lot of activities outside school. When you are in holidays you can apply your knowledges, for example: You go in search of the "elder wand" that is the most powerful wand, and there you will see many monsters trying to attack you. Another example is that when you grow up and its time to leave the school (You can leave the school when you want, but its not recommended) you can choose to be a "dark lord's" follower, a member of the order of phoenix, etc... which will be very entertaining.
With this i mean that the game wont be based on the school.

This post has been edited by Lord Zaros: Nov 8 2009, 02:33 PM

[Crash Jordan]

How about creating your own school/story/lore, if you use just harry potter, you're quite limited. Making your own has endless possibilities.

[Lord Zaros]

Yeah that is what i thought first. I thought it would be limited too. But then i saw that it was very very difficult and that im alone, and its very hard to create beasts, spells, places, houses, history, NAMES if you are alone. So i thought about making a kind of Harry Potter game based on Runescape, which it already has the story.
But now that you tell me all this i think i will have to start again. I will start making this game again that will take a lot of time until i find more people and they help me.

[Lord Zaros]

For those that want to help me with the game you can go to my forums (making them right now) so we dont make useless threads here.
The forum is www.hogwarts.mybbnew.com
There we will discuss many things about the game like skills and else...