Re: Game idea....

[Brad Johnson <foxtrot@autobahn.mb.ca>]

>On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 01:56:26AM +0000, Martin Shergold wrote:
>> General Description : Picture, if you can, Street Fighter II (the arcade
>> game); a direct rip off of that. But with a twist, instead of  the
>> normal characters; the linux mascot (tux), the freebsd mascot (deamon?),
>> bill gates, etc (or very similar)...
>
>I would like to post a warning against such ideas. Sure, the Tux-clones of
>games are fun for a while, but do you really want to see that penguin 24*7??
>Writing your own storyline/characters is much more work, agreed, but also
>more original and rewarding.
>
>I am not saying your game wouldn't be extremely cool.. but sometimes I get
>the feeling that some people think that putting Tux (etc) in it _defines_
>the game as cool which is just not true (for me).

	Strangely enough, just today I saw a new game at the Linux Game Tome
(http://happypenguin.org): Kombatant. It's a fighting game with digitized
graphics ala Mortal Kombat. I haven't downloaded it yet, and it seems it in a
very early stage of development, but in case anyone is interested in checking
it out, it's homepage is at http://www.netcom.com/~cjang/ (As a side note, the
author seems to be stressing networkability). The webpage says it comes with
tools to make your own characters, so jamming Bill Gates and Tux in there
might not be too difficult
								--Brad