Lance Treiber
Educated
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- Feb 23, 2019
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Hello. You may know me by my previous thread where I failed to make a game. It was a 2d mobile MMO, in which I lost interest:
Then I decided to make an NWN style MMO based on SRD 3.5 with a friend, but he lost interest in it when he realized how difficult level design was.
We spent 2 months on it, too bad he bailed. This is how it looked.
And so now it's time to move on to yet another vaporware project, which I'll fail at as usual. I have a new quirky idea that intreagues me.
The idea is simple. Work alone, do not hire anyone, and use public domain assets.
Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, many others - all public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=downloads
British library digitized a million images from public domain books. Some examples:
Look at these spooky skellingtons. The story writes itself, doesn't it?
I want to make a visual novel (kind of like coteries of new york) using these assets, and I want to draw inspiration from public domain books. All of which points to the 19th century as the setting.
I don't want to bore you with my ideas for gameplay. Let's leave it at that for the moment.
I'd appreciate any public domain sources you may have heard of, or any other suggestions.
What themes do you think fit a gothic 19th century narrative? What books or other types of art do you think you would research?
Then I decided to make an NWN style MMO based on SRD 3.5 with a friend, but he lost interest in it when he realized how difficult level design was.
We spent 2 months on it, too bad he bailed. This is how it looked.
And so now it's time to move on to yet another vaporware project, which I'll fail at as usual. I have a new quirky idea that intreagues me.
The idea is simple. Work alone, do not hire anyone, and use public domain assets.
Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, many others - all public domain: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=downloads
British library digitized a million images from public domain books. Some examples:
Look at these spooky skellingtons. The story writes itself, doesn't it?
I want to make a visual novel (kind of like coteries of new york) using these assets, and I want to draw inspiration from public domain books. All of which points to the 19th century as the setting.
I don't want to bore you with my ideas for gameplay. Let's leave it at that for the moment.
I'd appreciate any public domain sources you may have heard of, or any other suggestions.
What themes do you think fit a gothic 19th century narrative? What books or other types of art do you think you would research?