Dominions : The Movie

[Atreidi]

As I was playing the Dawn Map I wondered how a Dominions movie would be. It could easily be something as immense as Lord of The Rings but even better because there are more razes and nations with their own histories religions, gods, and so on.

I just hope someone out there buys the idea and makes something big out of it.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think something was discussed back in Dom2 about it. The conversation went something along the line of....

1) how can I record a combat?
2) fraps
3) upload to youtube
4) edit it to add funny comments or add dance music?
5) Mac(imovie) Windows(windows movie maker)
6) real movie, me and my buddies, I want to play Lord of the Wild who draws droves of wild party girls out of the woods.

Well from there it went off track
But it does sound like it could at least be your 15 minutes of fame on YouTube (plus abit of advertising for Dominions) if someone wanted to do it. Better than the backyard wrestling or just-another-starwars that I keep seeing there.

[Atreidi]

Well I was thinking of something bigger... Like an actual Motion Picture Blockbuster Directed by someone big. An Epic movie with grand design and direction something like Lord of the Rings, Starwars, or even like Troy.

[Gandalf Parker]

Kristoffer is a prolific writer. I get the impression that we would get a lot more storyline if he didnt feel try to avoid flooding us. Maybe he could write up a script.

[Endoperez]

I've thought about doing Dominions-themed practice projects once I can really start doing 3d stuff. I've managed to get my foot in (I'm going to study "game modeling", or 3d for games - I'm not interested in that, but didn't get to the schools I really wanted), but I'm still trying to learn to draw and quite far from actually doing anything. Still, in ten years or so, I'd like to have some cool stuff done. Perhaps not quite LotR stuff, but very good looking nonetheless. There are many, many ideas, but I don't have the skills to do them properly yet.


Example: abysian kills a satyr hoplite, zoom out and show abysians fighting satyrs/maenads and storm of vine arrows killing several abysians, a demonbred dives out of the clouds and answers with flame eruption, entanglement and dangerous melee, horde of spine devils advancing from far away BAM - music stops, black screen, and text/voice: "The flames are burning" flash of battle "The forest is in danger" flash of hoof striking ground "Your time has come" black screen, voice booms "I AM BELLEPHORON" Great White Bull smashing the abysians under his hoofs "FIRST BORN OF GAIA" various magical effects going off around him, falling fires failing to hurt him "I AM LORD OF THIS FOREST" *bang* black screen, fades to the hand grasping map image, the title appears. "Make thy kingdom come. Dominions 3 - the Awakening."

[Juzza]

We need to base it around a nation and it's national heros, the big bad enemy would likely be Ermor (we'd probably be talking MA or LA)

I'm glad someone brought this up, I had this idea a while back but never said anything about it.

Oh, but the start has to be a sorta bird view, flying over the separate nations and showing their massive armies, haha, that'd be so cool.

[Autochthon]

Atreidi said:
As I was playing the Dawn Map I wondered how a Dominions movie would be. It could easily be something as immense as Lord of The Rings but even better because there are more razes and nations with their own histories religions, gods, and so on.

I just hope someone out there buys the idea and makes something big out of it.

Well, how about starting with something a bit more low-key. Like, say, a Flash Comic series on the Web?

8Bit Theatre for Dom3? Yes please!

Then we release then Dom3 Music Album, CCG, RPG, RTS, MMORPG, FPS, anime, comic series, phone cards, calendars and tube socks(huh?).

Then, when we've enough capital, we can leverage more funds to deliver the coup-de-main in the form of Kris O's magnum opus - Dom3: The Movie.

It'll be to cinema what Wagner's Ring Cycle is to Classical Music.

Please...somebody stop me...

[Aezeal]

lol a comic would be nice but since it's not about individuals but about armies and you can't connect the different ages and how they get that way in one comic I think it would be hard to make it interesting and still feel like dominions...

Comics are about individuals.. Dominions is NOT about individuals

[Autochthon]

Aezeal said:
Comics are about individuals.. Dominions is NOT about individuals

You could narrate from the top down (Pretender, the ultimate Deus Ex Machina) or from the bottom up.

After all, when sacrificing Mictlan Blood Slaves to spread Dominion, do they not bleed? Do they not have hearts that beat?

4 out of 5 Mictlan Priests say: "Yes, at least they did at the beginning". The 5th Priest was a Moon Priest, so it's debatable whether he understood the question in the first place

Good lord, LA R'Lyeh and Ermor are practically begging for a visit by Rincewind, Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography.

I did mention Samurai Cat and The Redeemer, didn't I?

Edited for poor spelling, the typing equivalent of wiping spit off the person you've been talking to.

[S.R. Krol]

I'd like to add why not Dominionclix? You know, those collectible miniature games? I mean c'mon, if HALO with about four different units in the video game rates their own clix game, how about Dominion's 1500+ units?