New Genre Idea

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 17:26:40

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Akatosh · Wed 31/01/2007 17:35:58

Wait, did you mean turning games into movies (as has been done with Lara Croft, Doom,...) or working movies into Point'n'Click adventures (has this been done yet ?) or making games which play like movies (e.g. 6DAS)?

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 17:42:28

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Ashen · Wed 31/01/2007 17:44:16

I believe there've been games 'based on' Cube and Equilibrium (to varying degrees), as well as a bunch of Star Wars projects. (And if you extend it to TV shows, someone started a CSI game a while back.) So, I don't think this is a 'new' genre so much as an under-used one. It's part of the 'Fan Game' genre, I'd say, and they just tend not to get finished. Which can be a shame - there're loads of 'adventure game of the film's I'd love to see done right.

Akatosh · Wed 31/01/2007 17:44:46

Agreed! I'd like to see a Mr. Monk adventure, for one.

/EDIT: Wait, one moment. Why did I never get the idea to make one myself?
/EDIT EDIT: Oh, yeah. Graphics.

GarageGothic · Wed 31/01/2007 17:48:42

Well, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Blade Runner are excellent example of how well suited point-n-click games are for film licenses. Less succesful were Capstones licenses of The Dark Half, Wayne's World, The Beverly Hillbillies, An American Tale, or the Plan 9 From Outer Space game - though it had little to do with the film.

I think there was a MAGS contest about games based on films, but the only one I remember right now was the Donny Darko game.

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 17:49:01

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Akatosh · Wed 31/01/2007 17:51:40

Hello and welcome in the Mr. Monk game team, VintageDemon. First, we will watch some episodes and decide which one we'll watch. Meeting is at your place in 5 minutes, I'm already on my way. Hope you've got something to eat, I'm hungry.

/EDIT: Probably I'm going to make a game idea posts for the Mr. Monk thing. I won't even try this without at least a graphics artist. And a Mr. Monk game would feature much, much thinking stuff, combining informations and such. I already practiced that in the Krisis games. Oh, and it would have a "think" cursor mode.

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 17:53:54

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esper · Wed 31/01/2007 18:26:35

Nice! If I wasn't hard at work on my own project right now, I could be coerced into making a Monk game. In fact, I still could lend a hand, if needed...

Some other movies/shows which have become AGS games or are becoming AGS games include Doctor Who and The Simpsons. Personally, I had no idea there was a game based on Cube, but I would definitely play it. My game ESPER: Town on the Edge of Darkness is KINDA based on a film, if a no-budget indie film I made in high school counts

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 18:29:26

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Ashen · Wed 31/01/2007 19:36:48

Aw, man. How did I forget the Dr. Who game? In my defense, it's currently only a demo (albeit a fully playable, pretty-darn-nifty demo - which I think is already further that previous Dr. Who projects have gotten).
Ooh, there's also voh's Diagnosis: Murder game. Not sure how far along it is, but it definitely beats out a Monk game IMO. Not that I wouldn't play the Monk game, if nothing else it'd be good for interesting reasons you can't interact with some things. ("It's not lazy game design, he's germophobic!")

Da_Elf · Wed 31/01/2007 19:53:51

i think games from tv shows work better since you can make a game based on a tv series and the story doesnt have to be the same as any of the episodes as long as it has the right feel to it. a movie however isnt really a game for a movie unless it follows the exact story (otherwise its not the game for the movie) problem there is that after watching the movie you know the plot, the ending everything. which makes the game boring

nulluser · Wed 31/01/2007 20:25:20

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esper · Wed 31/01/2007 21:12:33

One of my favorite all-time (commercial) point-and-click adventure games was star Trek 25th Anniversary Edition from Interplay. Interplay just makes good games, especially back in the day (I call your attention to Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Tass Times in Tonetown, and the non-adventure Battle Chess), but I loved ST25AE. It played out exactly like eight episodes of the show. I played the original on my Tandy, and then when I got my first regular PC I got the talkie version starring the original cast. Good times.

Dang it, Ashen, I thought for a half hour about Diagnosis: Murder and wound up completely drawing a blank and mentioning the Simpsons games instead.

Joseph DiPerla · Thu 01/02/2007 00:02:59

I wish they would put movies and shows into games. Some games I personally would love to see done that to is:

Smallville
Justice League
Batman
Futurama
24
North by Northwest
To catch a thief
Dial M for Murder
Star Wars
Prison Break

Just to name a few...

Snarky · Thu 01/02/2007 02:33:39

No one's thought to mention Sektor 13's Stargate Adventure?

Luke Lockhart · Thu 01/02/2007 06:02:13

This has been done for sure in the past, and can probably be done again. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't there been several adventure-style games done based upon the CSI & Law & Order licenses - which are television and thus fairly close to the movie idea?

In any case, I agree that SAW is an idea for a dark adventure game in itself. The problem being, of course, that for amateur developers such as ourselves it would be very hard to score such a license. No one, however, can stop us from doing derivatives...

Das Plans · Thu 01/02/2007 06:32:22

What's the deal with adventure games? - I once thought about doing a Seinfeld adventure. I'm still in love with this idea, but I find it extremly hard to come up with puzzles for that one. Funny dialogues? - Yes. Entertaining gameplay? - Well ...

ManicMatt · Thu 01/02/2007 09:36:17

Most of these are already games! Just not adventure games..

"Justice League"

Crap beat em up RPG game.

"Batman"

Always a crap game.

"Futurama"

Crap shoot em up adventure game.

24

Average game.

Star Wars

(Being made into a p' n c' with AGS, no?)
Some good, most crap.