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Originally Posted by Endoperez
I wouldn't mind having a d different game set in the Dominions universe, and I'd like to create some content set in it sometime in the future (3d shorts, trailer-style, or something). It's just that it isn't as easy as you think, and it'd be a pity if (some of) your work went to waste because Shrapnel was forced to take action. The secret Illwinter project might be rpg set in the Dominions universe, for all we know, or they might have plans for the future of Dominions.
The time period is good, but if you're toning down the Dominions influences there's too little to go by.
Will there be magic? Will there be armies? Will there be sieges? Will there be monsters?
Since this is also athmosphere, how will in-game traveling be implemented? How long will it take if you just walk from a city to another? Let's say that they're relatively close to each other but not nearby; "three days' walk". Will you require food, shelter? If there's a river, can the character just walk through it, or will it be dangerous some way?
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it's a roguelike. that should answer all your questions.
PS. I think the only roguelike in history that encountered copyright issues was TOME using content from Pern, and then it was using unique literary content, not reappropriations of history and mythology. I don't think the content of dominions is copyrightable, only the particular ways in which it organized it to construct its nations. however I'm moving into it into a 'new age' in which the organization and construction of nations and bits of story around them must necessarily change. I'm most concerned with avoiding doing something that KO is already doing, because I hear that he will not work on anything related to what someone else is doing (mod-wise, you know). I was thinking that since there is no Dom4, there is no danger of the dominions nations being portrayed in 16-17 century garb, so it would be a good setting. However, if there is too much overlap between this and IW's secret project, I would of course find some other setting.
(this is my conniving way of getting a better peek at aforementioned secret project)