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New LEGO-themed PC game (not official)
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lugnet.gaming, lugnet.cad
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Tue, 1 Jul 2003 02:04:41 GMT
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This is my first post to the LUGNET newsgroups after having joined LUGNET this
month. It’s actually one of the reasons I joined in the first place -- to get
comments, suggestions, and even volunteers about this game from LUGNET members.
So, here it is (allow me to quote from my project’s home page):
“LEGOLAND will be a modification to the upcoming Half-Life 2, using LEGO bricks
and elements as the world and LEGO minifigures as the playable characters. This
mod was inspired by the pretty crappy Counter-Strike “Legoland” level I saw my
brother playing, and I thought to myself that I could do much better. Then E3
2003 came along, Half-Life 2 was announced, and I decided to make a completely
new mod instead of a simple level for CS.”
I go on to describe some of my ideas. I’d rather you just visit the website
(link at bottom) and read what’s there instead of my posting all the info here,
since it will take too much space, and it would mean being redundant, since the
info’s already out there on the internet.
Is this game BrikWars on the PC? No. But it shares some of its concepts. Credit
will be given whenever I take ideas from something like that, such as Tek
levels. So what is this game? A mixture of the stuff I love in all sorts of
games, combining elements of real-time and turn-based strategy games, tabletop
wargames, role-playing games, first-person shooters, and more. And obviously,
there’s the fun of being able to play as a LEGO minifigure in a LEGO world.
Because of this, I’m having difficulty deciding exactly how to classify this
game, or how its actual gameplay will turn out. But I’m hoping that the input of
LUGNET members will help me solidify things.
I definitely need to change the name of the mod, as it is no doubt a trademark
violation. BrikWars would have been a good name, but it’s already taken, and I
don’t want it to be too much like BrikWars anyway. Suggestions are most welcome.
LEGOLAND website: http://www.students.uwosh.edu/~bradfj23/legoland/
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Sounds like you're going to be taking some legal risks no matter what you do, since LEGO has form patents on the minifig itself (as well as most of the weapons), if you have anything that "looks like" a minifig in the game, you're stepping on (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jul-03, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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