Poll: Ever ripped off a game in a short story?
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No, but I do use settings from games as backgrounds for my class stories, like I used the idea of a Summer Camp for Psychic Children in a story a couple weeks back.
I can't claim to have ever ripped off a game for anything I've written, although I will mention one.
I was reading through the Eberron Player's Guide for D&D 4E, and checking out the Changeling race. It occurred to me that the Changelings' ability to alter their appearance instantly and permanently, with apparently little or no effort expended, is far, far more powerful than any of the other races' powers.
While I was out raking thatch in the yard, I started thinking about the ramifications of that power, and how it could completely change a campaign. Then I starting thinking about how it would completely change the world. And then, most importantly, how it would change our world.
So I sat down and planned out eight different stories, each centering on a different person, each a changeling in the modern world. Six were positioned somewhere along a cynicism-idealism scale, with the other two used to address a scientific and philosophical/religious viewpoint, respectively, about changelings' interactions in the world and its culture and events.
A week and 40 pages later, I had Changeling Tales. It's by a wide margin my favorite work, and probably my best. I tried to write each chapter with a unique, character-centric style, and to make each character feel fresh and interesting to serve the end of providing a good cross-section of changeling society and to keep the narrative fresh and varied.
I also tried a couple of very novel techniques with the format of the text itself, both of which are, in hindsight, interesting but very troublesome. The text has to be kept in its original format or it becomes impossible to read. And even if it is in that original format, it is still very, very hard to make sense of. I'm very glad I tried it, but it was a lot of work for a very flawed outcome, and I wouldn't do either of them again. I realize this paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense.
There are a few little things I'd change about it, looking back, but that's a bad habit to develop. I'm happy with it.
I was reading through the Eberron Player's Guide for D&D 4E, and checking out the Changeling race. It occurred to me that the Changelings' ability to alter their appearance instantly and permanently, with apparently little or no effort expended, is far, far more powerful than any of the other races' powers.
While I was out raking thatch in the yard, I started thinking about the ramifications of that power, and how it could completely change a campaign. Then I starting thinking about how it would completely change the world. And then, most importantly, how it would change our world.
So I sat down and planned out eight different stories, each centering on a different person, each a changeling in the modern world. Six were positioned somewhere along a cynicism-idealism scale, with the other two used to address a scientific and philosophical/religious viewpoint, respectively, about changelings' interactions in the world and its culture and events.
A week and 40 pages later, I had Changeling Tales. It's by a wide margin my favorite work, and probably my best. I tried to write each chapter with a unique, character-centric style, and to make each character feel fresh and interesting to serve the end of providing a good cross-section of changeling society and to keep the narrative fresh and varied.
I also tried a couple of very novel techniques with the format of the text itself, both of which are, in hindsight, interesting but very troublesome. The text has to be kept in its original format or it becomes impossible to read. And even if it is in that original format, it is still very, very hard to make sense of. I'm very glad I tried it, but it was a lot of work for a very flawed outcome, and I wouldn't do either of them again. I realize this paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense.
There are a few little things I'd change about it, looking back, but that's a bad habit to develop. I'm happy with it.
I dramatised Operation overlord from unreal tournament for an GCSE english story, got a B. I also tend to use the TCS Midway from WC
rophecy whenever I do a story with spaceships, even if its just a cameo, like a 'freighter' in the background or something.
rophecy whenever I do a story with spaceships, even if its just a cameo, like a 'freighter' in the background or something.
I once wrote an Age of Mythology story for an English class. My teacher thought is was so good he read it aloud in class.
Way to go off topic, but since you ask, everyone's got Ichigo or Rukia when it comes to Bleach avatars on this site, so I decided to use the part where Ichimaru Gin waved goodbye to the protagonists when they entered Souls Society.reecedempsey said:why is your avatar gine ichimaru hes a knobDeadlock Radium said:Indeed, I once wrote an awesome story based on God of War. I got an A.Dark Knifer said:
I've used games in text's several times though, but never actually ripped it totally off.
[SUB]Also, I think I'm kinda recognized here because of my Gin avatar.[/SUB]
