The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: lunchboxkilla on June 01, 2005, 02:25:00 PM
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Leanthar... if a dev company like say EA soft or Bioware came to you and asked if they could buy Layonara woud you sell it?
and if so would say you and the DEV team look over production or would you let it fall to the mercy of other game Dev guys.
Strange question indeed but i was thinking of it in the bordem of work.
I mean if you did I would Preorder it and have massive gripes about game delays :)
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Would I sell the Intellectual Property (IP) to a game company? No. For many reasons really but the main reason is that I have worked in the game industry for some time and for a short time (1.5 years) ran a game studio and I know I would lose what has been created by the players, team, and myself. Layonara would no longer be Layonara without the team and community that surrounds it--simple as that.
Would I watch over the IP and let a game company create the world for the players? Possibly, but only if I were able to put in key people at the right positions that have done so much for the world already and who share the same value and vision that I do. And if I had control of what was done with the world and the community as well as the team. If that happened and the deal was right for those key people and myself then I would think about it and discuss it with those individuals.
*bites tongue to keep from talking more on this subject* :)
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Awsome *thumbs up* sorry but my line of work just go so boring... mowing 300+ acers of grass does this to a man... strange things will be said.
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lunchboxkilla - 6/1/2005 3:37 PMAwsome *thumbs up* sorry but my line of work just go so boring... mowing 300+ acers of grass does this to a man... strange things will be said.
You have my sympathy, I have about 70 acres of lawn, 400+ trees of various sizes and species, shrubs, flowers, 100 'retirement villa's' and 140 residents whos median age is 79. Thank GOD I don't have to worry about the medical staff... just me and my 4 gardeners/landscapers.
Vyris
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....I mowed my lawn yesterday... *Looks at feet and walks off*
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man... I wish I had a lawn...
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Be careful what you wish for, Talan! ;)
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ye'd be much better off using the open source D20 clauses and publishing the entire setting 1st as a PnP campaign set under your own publishing company before you consider going digital release via 3rd party. The very second you let a gaming company get it's grubby little hands on your setting, some suit struts in from the marketing office with "high impact" changes to sell the "product". I could just see it now...
"Great setting, great! Me and the boys were marvelling at how this will be the best seller of the 4th quarter! Buuuut... we'd like to change a few things..."
L-what kind of things?
"Well, does it *have* to be called "Layonara?" I mean, that sounds like "goodbye" in japanese... what's that word... ah yes! Sashami! We were thinking something more current, more NOW... Like "Dr. Dre's Ho House of Horror!"
L-but there is no Dre in my setting...
"That's another thing we've been meaning to talk about. This Ozymandius... nobody likes Ozzy anymore! since the ratings dive of his reality TV show on MTV, we feel we need a fresher face. You know, a bard that helps the player out with the power of Hip Hop! *does a retarded little marketer dance and starts singing* 'it's like this and like that and like this and uh.. UH UH! YEAAAAAHH, smoke dat dragon mofo!"
L- *sounds of forehead slamming into the table*
"Oh, and speaking of music, to sell this thing, we really need our own custom soundtrack... something nobody's heard before! Let's get Billboard to sell us the liscensing to their top 40 for exposure! I was thinking Gwen sining here 'Im just a girl' song would make an excellent intro! And imagine the battle scenes pumping with that "Rolling rolling rolling" song by that Durst fellow... oh yeah!"
L-look, I really don't think...
"THINK?! We don't pay you to THINK! We pay you so we can own your vision, nothing more! This name on the dotted line means we can do anything and everything we want to make this game a blockbuster! Oh, and we need to sell toys. How do you think the kids would like it if we dressed this Duur fellow up in gold chains, a feather hat and gave him a CaRAAAZY foreign accent? eh? eh?! We can get Leanoardo Dicrappio to do the voice acting and give him, I dunno... purple neon fur? Kid's be begging for 2 billion by christmas!"
L-*opens fire and destroys all at the board room meeting mercilessly, before storming off into the downtown sprawl all post-office like*
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Comming soon... a spin off of Layonara... Pimp my golem Starring Celgar
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I propose to beat Talan to the punch, and open a jewelry store in Hlint named "Blingz" I'll sell everything from gold teeth to huge, tower shield clock faces on chains for my giant homey's. And after hours I'll have Krumping lessons... and all I'll need is the "siezure" feature from the emote wand.
I can see it now... Maybe I can work something out with Celgar and he can pimp a gem golem for my bling shop...
Vyris