What old movie/t.v show/book should be made into an AGS game?

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Its a simple question, post your ideas

[MrColossal]

Just a suggestion, post your own idea first, give reasons and examples... To make the thread more interesting.

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Just a suggestion, post your own idea first, give reasons and examples... To make the thread more interesting.

what i would like 2 see is 1984 the novel be made into an adventure game
it would be tough to do but i love the book

[Ubel]

I would like to see more AGS games turned into movies / TV shows / books.

[Matti]

I would like to see more Sequels to the Novels on which the TV-Shows are based on that come with the adventures.. or something..

[bicilotti]

what i would like 2 see is 1984 the novel be made into an adventure game
it would be tough to do but i love the book

Not a bad idea!
I always liked Lord Dunsany's books, and when I reread them I cannot stop myself from thinking they could do great as adventure games.

If you want a use-x-on-y fest, Robinson Crusoe might do, ain't it? (actually I'm surprised that no one made it yet)

p.s.: You might be interested in this one.

[Buckethead]

I always thought Stephen King's IT would be a nice adventure game.

[Invalid]

I always thought Stephen King's IT would be a nice adventure game.

hahaha lol that would be hard to beat unless you played as pennywise.....

[lostbuthappy]

There was a moment in my life when I thought I wanted to make a Brave New World adventure. Of course that was before I realized that bad endings are no good for games. Lotr would certainly be neat (and has probably been done already?) and at least 60% of the Michael Crichton books. Also Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but this has already been done a trillion times with slightly different names, so there's no reason to do so again.
TV shows... The A Team
Movies... Futureworld, The Matrix (WITHOUT super-neo)

[Ponch]

Knight Rider. Tales of the Gold Monkey. Quantum Leap. And a very dark, sinister take on Manimal.

[GarageGothic]

I always thought Stephen King's IT would be a nice adventure game.

I actually worked on something very similar once, way back, long before the existence of AGS. A friend and I were planning it all out, drawing maps of the town, designing puzzles, coming up with creepy situations - everything heavily inspired by the TV version of Stephen King's IT as well as Darkseed, Twin Peaks and parts of Police Quest 3. If I don't misremember the game was simply called "666" (written in blood of course :), possibly with some subtitle. We were going to program it in AMOS on the Amiga, but neither of us really had the coding skills at the time so eventually it fizzled out.
But I still think it's a really good idea for a game, especially with multiple player characters (and the fact that you can never know who will survive) and playable flashbacks of their childhood encounters with IT. I may be the only person who saw some potential in the otherwise horribly flawed game version of King's The Dark Half, but at least Phantasmagoria showed that the Stephen King school of horror can work quite well in games (and probably better still without bad acting and ugly bluescreen effects).

And how come nobody mentioned MacGyver yet?!? I can't imagine any IP that would work better as an adventure game.

[Stupot]

I've had plans of turning Bram Stoker's Dracula (the novel) into an AGS game... Or at least the first 4 chapters, when Jonathan Harker is in the Count's castle, which lend themselves nicely to the 'escape' format.

[Trent R]

My brother and his friend are huge fans of the Sword of Truth series (and converted me) and were making a Risk-like (but better) board game based off of them. They had a full design plan going, but then the final book came out and retconned a lot of their ideas.

Eventually I'd like to take those plans and make a electronic game with it (maybe with AGS, maybe not).


~Trent

[Babar]

And a very dark, sinister take on Manimal.

Someone other than me remembers that show!
A game for that would be interesting...instead of standard interaction icons, you'd have a ton of animals to change to. And every change would require the pulsating hand cutscene! I still do that sometimes, and people think I'm crazy for that!


PS: Was there ever a Teenwolf basketball game?

[Anian]

Are we talking about games made in the same world or with same characters or a complete transition of the book/movie into a game? Wouldn't a game be pointless if you already knew the story, who was the bad guy, how it ended, who dies etc.? It could be a good practice of story telling and puzzle making  for the people who make it but other than that I don't see the point.

But using a book/movie as a setting might be ok, though it would always bother me that I didn't come up with it myself and I'm not too big of a fan of anything that I'd feel the need to make a fan game.

Oh, if I ignore all of the above, my suggestions would be:
Neil Gaiman - American Gods - it has many different scenes but limited rooms, story has many magic and other elements plus it's pretty expansive and could be taken in many different directions. Also the main chracter is awesome (logical and patient, misterious background, good nature, finds a "new" world around him, has a love interest, helps people, on a mission that becomes more interesting and deeper as the story unfolds)

but for movies, there's a problem - Indiana Jones - the problem being it already exists 
-> same "problem" with: Hitchikers guide, Discworld, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland, Blade runner...

[Ghost]

Ulysses31
That old french/japanese cartoon that transferred the story of Ulysses into deep frikkin' space. Neat format, charismatic hero, lots of material to draw from, and a huge amount of cool little puzzle scenarios.

The Smurfs
Kid friendly AGS. Also pretty tame when it comes to spriting, since all Smurfs basically look the same.

The Fall Guy
Come on, you know it makes perfect sense! Back in the days he was the Rule Of Cool personified!

Filmation's GhostBusters
They had a monkey, cool spooky equipment AND a sexy time-travelling lady. Simple
and quite "well-defined" characters and a setting that would do well in any adventure game. Also, a bit less of a copyright infringement trap than "The Real Ghostbusters", what with them having their hip game now and being more rooted in the mind of the pop-culture-aware Jonny Average.

As for movies, don't laugh, I always thought the Puppet Master series would be a nice thing to cast into adventure form. I wouldn't know from which point of view though... but controlling a cast of downright evil little killers doing ...strangely good... deeds... strikes a nerve, doesn't it?

p.s.: You might be interested in this one.

Sir, where do you keep digging up this stuff- sweet!

[arj0n]

like Ponch said: Tales of the Gold Monkey. And Arthur Conan Doyle's Mr. Holmes.

[Play_Pretend]

"There's a Monster at the End of This Book", but with an alternate murder ending.

[Snake]

The movie Frequency would be a good game to play I believe.

[Takyon]

The Hobbit