Remake, of the Thief Trilogy.

Ziemanskye on 21/4/2006 at 21:44

like the fact it's based on the UnrealEngine (about 1.7, I'd guess, not a full UE2 anyway) for example

Huckeye on 21/4/2006 at 22:02

Quote Posted by sparhawk

My personal estimate is that you would have to pay about 300.000 USD upwards. The Doom 3 engine ranges at about 500.000 USD for a licence IMO. so I would expect that TDS is similar. Of course you woul dhave to consider that there may be additional software involved, that may not be able to be sold.

Sparhawk, your talking about the engine. I am talking about the intellectual property of the Thief Franchise. Its just a sheet of paper (i imagine) that states who the owner of the rights are. Choosing what to do with those rights (like what engine to use, or movie to make) would be an additional amount of capital.

sparhawk on 22/4/2006 at 14:23

Ah! That was missunderstanding. :) I guess the IP would be even much higher. Especially if they might consider making a movie or some such. Then it can go easily into millions.

Vancore on 22/4/2006 at 20:40

If your talking about movie rights I think you would have to buy them seperate. Going off the D&D game when they went for broke early in the 90's some kid did buy the rights off them to make the movie and about 8 years later actually made the movie when D&D was reinstated as being a profitable adventure by Wizards of the Coast. (I wish I knew the process better then having just read a few things).

My main beef isn't really with the copywrite but it is with the fact that if the community does try to remake the Thief Trilogy, they might be persecuted with something. Meanwhile, the owners of Doom, Half-Life 1 and the Ultima series are more lax on the issue and allow their mod community to redo their past games.

Do we really know what would happen if this community did a remake of at least the first two games? I'm guessing I probably won't find that out till after the Half-Life Remake is released (Which won't be for at least another year). That'll probably be about the time that the DarkMod will be ready too. :)

Huckeye on 22/4/2006 at 22:55

They can be separate, but then you arent really buying the rights.

If you only want to make a movie you can contract the rights to only make a movie where the original owner would then still maintain ownership of the franchise and rights of it.

But if you buy the intellectual rights to the Thief franchise, then you own them. You can do whatever you want as you are the sole person that has the right to use the name Garrett as a Thief or any of the game lore, images, sounds, etc. (you may not own past media, im not sure of that, or it may cost more). But if you truly purchased the rights, then you could pick your game engine, license it, and do anything you want with the plot, characters, etc. Then YOU could scower the internet and sue the pants off anybody that posted a screenshot of your game:)

Parker'sSire on 23/4/2006 at 15:40

Quote:

ZylonBane wrote:
...I'm remaking Thief in the Lode Runner engine.

... I was kinda hoping for something a little more advanced... maybe Westwood's BladeRunner.