are these games illegal?

[theswitch]

I'm really interested in doing two quite different adventure games

first one is a tour of the net driven like a standerd AGS game and screenshots are taken of sites that the player clicks through with a character to get feedback and rants from a slightly weird character

the other game I don't want to reveal yet but a kind of adventure rpg using screenshots of Unreal Tournement Maps/Levels and I would post this in there UT forums to announce it and ask them if this is a form of mod status (mod = Modification to a game)

don't get too worried, I havent started them yet, but I just wanted to ask for a heads up on ether game idea and any steps I would go though to make ether an acceptable project to make happen

also, I wasn't perfectly sure where to post this, just so you know

[m0ds]

Hi switch, this forum is fine for these kind of comments.

The first could be innovative - but where exactly is the "gameplay" in that idea?

The second one could be fun. I'm not a UT fan but I'd probably play. Would it be as gory?

[theswitch]

well the internet one would be more of just interactive fiction making fun at many different things on the net wich would be all thrown into different themed chapters

the UT thing came to mind when I started thinking about making a party based adventure through a dark deep dungeon (like roguelikes) and solving puzzles but I wanted to create a really dark dreery atmosphere in a dungeon with my drawing skills and some moody music but I found that I couldn't do what I wanted with my drawing skills so I realized a perfect place for dungeon and cave shots, UT2004, I used to be a UT2004 avid player and I have tons of maps, though I have returned to the art of Zen with my home Unreal Tournement Original (first one). actually I fisrt turned to a game called Morrowind but it just didn't offer what I was looking for, also I am interested in makeing another game similar after the dungeon games finished, a kind of space hulk style of game setting witch UT2004 has lots of sci fi stuff for creating spacehulks, (though thats not what theyd be called in my game ofcourse)

[Mozesh]

The UT thing sounds interesting, I did a similar thing for backgrounds of my hard drive crashed game Horror Hospital, only then with DeusEx (same engine as UT).
About morrowind if you might want to download the lights 300/w mod (http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind/modcontrols/mod.asp?modid=2193) it really makes everything more dark, you can't see shit now in most dungeons, and the Darker Morrowind mod (http://www.rpgplanet.com/morrowind/modcontrols/mod.asp?modid=3626) it's really huge but gives you much darker and sharper textures, probably every texture in the game will be replaced.
Personally, I would choose the UT for this kind of thing.

[theswitch]

so anybody know if these game ideas would be illegal? I'm not much of a Law Buff, thats all, Oh and I'm glad you guys like the ideas

and No I'm not makeing these commercial in anyway but I would like to share the games with as many people as I can

[Pumaman]

first one is a tour of the net driven like a standerd AGS game and screenshots are taken of sites that the player clicks through with a character to get feedback and rants from a slightly weird character

I don't see how that could be illegal unless you're using screenshots of real websites, in which case it could be considered copyright infringement if you did so without asking the sites concerned.

the other game I don't want to reveal yet but a kind of adventure rpg using screenshots of Unreal Tournement Maps/Levels and I would post this in there UT forums to announce it and ask them if this is a form of mod status (mod = Modification to a game)

If you made your own maps then it's probably fine, but if you use screenshots of existing maps then it could be copyright infringement. Best to ask them.

[Gord10]

I use the same technique and I never had a legal problem (at least I'm not inside the jail for now :p ). I don't think a problem would occur as long as your game is freeware.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=446
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=473
I use my own maps, but the textures and modified character models of Half-Life and some HL mods like They Hunger.

[theswitch]

actually I had an old idea that I just rememberd now. basically a tutorial on how to use different software, where by I'd use screenshots of the interface to teach how do do stuff and it would remain freeware also

[theswitch]

oh and I will post on the official UT forums for there input

and for the net thing, yea I wanted to use screenshots of exsisting sites, I guess that would require permission for each site (because I wanted to use alot of different sites )