Hi all, A couple of weeks ago we were discussing on list about making a possible Tomb Raider game that is accessible. At the time I felt I shouldn't get involved with a direct clone do to copyrights, but I've reconsidered, and have thought of a possible plan to do it. First, most of the companies holding copyrights tend to go after companies and individuals which make a derivative work based on a specific trade mark or product, and then attempt to sell it.However, companies tend to leave general fan fiction alone when the person or persons are doing it for free, and don't try and market or publicize their work. Which is where a free and open source project might come in to play. My thoughts are once I clear my schedule of the current projects, such as Monty, I could begin work on a free and open source 3D game engine that we could use to recreate some of our favorite sighted games that have legal restrictions attached to them. Obviously, the trade marks, sounds, characters, are all legally owned by their companies, but if we write the games as fan fiction without selling the works we might have a chanse of pulling this off. Second, I've been a fan of Tomb Raider for a long time, and I'd be interested to know if you have any requests as to which of the 6 games you would like me to begin with. I'm personally thinking of starting with Angel of Darkness just because I don't have the original game sounds, but the sounds in that game are pretty common sounds to come across such as: rain, elevators, punching, kicking, cemmi-automatics, elivators, wild dogs, and hundreds of other generic day to day sounds I can pick up, and make the USA Games version as near to the original as humanly possable. The music, fmv sequences and cut scenes are also easy to come by. Finally, Angel of Darkness didn't offer as many puzzles as earlier games where you spent allot of time solving puzzles. Though, I can say as far as the best game to actually play for shear fun value would have to be Last Revelation. In TRLR Lara Croft is searching for the amulet and armour of horus. Not surprisingly Von Croy is also looking for those items, they try to knock Lara off, and the evil Egyptian God Set returns for a final battle, but is no match for Lara Croft. Anyone have any suggestions, thoughts, or input about this idea?
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