Re: Re: Re: How easy would it be to create a king of sun country game?

From: Henk Langeveld <hlangeveld_at_...>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:43:27 +0200

David Dunham wrote:

>>Glorantha is a very rich, very detailed setting for a
>>RPG -- has anyone thought of developing a unique interactive magic and skill
>>system for the game, and developing it into a console RPG?

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> Console games have even bigger budgets than computer games these
> days. My guess is that anyone investing that sort of money is going
> to want to own the intellectual property, and won't want to license
> Glorantha.

Right. And even if a *big* company would actually license original content for a derivative product (game, movie) they would inevitably need to shoehorn it into their own type of story.

We'd give them Glorantha, the studio'd turn it into 'The Seven Samurai meet Godzilla'.

Oh, well...

Henk