Sorry to post this again, but I am begging for information. I need to make this gameplay and design with no holes in them. So I''m begging for comments. I think I will call it Shogun: Evil Dark. Thanks for your time and sorry again for the repost. Basic Plot: When the taiko of Japan dies. His son and heir kidnapped. That leaves Suspicion. And all fingers are pointed to your liege lord Toranaga. What do you do? It is rumored that Ishido, enemy of your Liege Lord is experimenting in Dark Magic. Ishido now is moving troops to attack the Kwanto, Toranaga''s Province. Toranaga starts to rally troops, but three of his border villages were mysteriously destroyed. Some say by a demon. Others say by monsters. But almost everyone agrees, by Ishido. How you fit in: You are a soldier for Toranaga. You signed up as infantry when your town and family were destroyed as the third village. That is where you start, right in battle. ------------------------------------- * = single player only # = Player Speed $ = Special Ability Toranaga Clan: - Light Infantry: Spear, Rope$, Short Bow, xxFast# - Medium Infantry: Naginata, Short Sword, Herbs$, xFast# - Samurai: Katana, Long Bow, Zen Long Jump$, Fast# - Ceremonial Samurai: Double Katana, Naginata, Wakasashi, Beserk$, Slow# Ishido Clan: - Heavy Infantry: Long Bow, Clave, Medium# (need a special for him) - Unead Samurai: Katana, Raise Dead Beta, Fast# - *Undead Sorcerer: Staff, Fast#, Raise Dead Primary$ - Demon Ninja: Doule Knifes, Ninja Stars, xxFast#, Caltraps$ - OverLord: Double Sided Battle Axe, slow#, Blaze$ Special Power List: - Herbs: Start with 3. You will be able to cultivate herbs in the map. Need a special enitity for this. But this cutivation can be in a later beta. When useing herbs (Assign a key, not a weapon slot) it adds 25% health to a team mate that is next to the player. It takes 5% of the stamina to cultivate herbs. - Rope: A Grappling Hook. Off screen sprite. Assign Key. Takes 12% of your stamina everytime you use it. - Zen Long Jump: Similar to the long jump in half life. Catapults the player about 10-20 yards away. You have to have at least 50% stamina to use. Takes 20% stamina when used. Use same controls to activate it as HLDM. - Beserk: Spins around attacking everyone in the radius. The player will need an animation to represent the spinning motion. Takes 32% of stamina. Must have at least 50% of your stamina to use. - Raise Dead Beta - When the person with power dies. He has a 1/3 chance of respanwing where he died. Takes no stamina. - Raise Dead Primary- Don''t worry about for now. Single player aspect. - Caltraps: Caltraps are dropped to the ground and when a player runs/walks over them, it hurts them and makes them go slower. - Blaze: Takes 18% of stamina for every second of blaze. Fires a blast of energy (Lighting or Fire, havn''t decided) infront of the player. It hurts ANYONE infront of it. Goes about 2-3 yards. Weapon Look Up: - Spear: Quick Attack. Enemy loses 2% of stamina when hit. 8-12 pts of damage. - Short Bow: Arrows do 10-15 pts of damage. Arros go a medium speed. - Naginata: Primary attack does a melee attack, 15-18 pts of damage. Second attack throws the Naginata. A thrown naginata does 30-50 pts of damage. You can only hold one naginata at a time. You can pick up naginatas. - Short Sword: SLows attacks due to weight. Does 12-16 pts of damage. 2nd attack does a back stab that does 32-48 damge(slower attack rate when backstabbing). 2nd attack takes 24-50% of your stamina. - Katana: Quick Attack. Does 16-20 pts of damage. - Double Katana: 1st attack does a double swing. Does 22-33 pts of damage. Takes 5% of your stamina. 2nd attack does Beserk Attack. See Beserk Info. - Wakasashi: Can only be used once. Can not be picked up. When thrown does 100-150 pts of damage. - Clave: Similar to a spear, but uses a swinging motion. Does 23-31 pts of damage. Takes 30% of stamina away from the person it hits. - Staff: Does 4-6 pts of damage. - Double Knifes: Ex Quick attack rate. Does 6-8 pts of damage. - Ninja Stars: Throwable weapon. Fast. Does 12-30 pts of damage on impact. Does 2-4 pts of damage every 2 seconds over a 30 second period. - Double Sided Battle Axe: Slow attack. Does 20-47 pts of damage. Character Descriptions: - Light infantry: Fitting clothes. No armor. Has a pony tail on the back of his head. - Medium Infantry: Has clothes under his thin armor. His armor consists of a total of 4 plates. 1 on each thigh. 1 on each buttox. On his chest, use a normal chest. We can texture the breast plate. has a pony tail on his back. He also has a flag pole on his back. If you don''t understand what a flag pole is, reply with that. - Heavy Infantry: I have a picture of the back of him. www.shogunmod.com/images/hs.jpg I think it is. He is biger and bulkier. He has more clothes and plates on him. He should also look evil. With horns or the such on him. - Samurai: Don''t do him until I get the pictures of him online. He needs to look how I want him to. - Ninja Demon: Aporx half the size of a normal person. Needs to look scrawny and quick. Has a tight fitting ninja suit with a hood. Depending on polys, you can give him a tail with a pointy end. - Undead Samurai: Similar to the samurai, but with bones and no flesh. Wait until you get the samurai pics. - Over Lord: A big demon. Not much bigger than a human. This guys has reversed knees. He really needs to look as evil as possible. This is a demon after all. GamePlay: I am still sorting gameplay thru my mind at the moment. So wait untill that comes in. Team based...duh. Thanks for your guy''s help! Ferrett www.shogunmod.com Its your time to choose.

It happens around the Edo Period. Alpha will come out soon. I understand about Shogun, but you can not put a copyright on the word SHogun I believe taking the fact that it is an actual japanese word. That would be like taking the word "toilet" and copyrighting it. =) I added evil dark to make it more unique and different. For multiplayer, the gameplay will run like a vip idea, but you have to go kill the enemy Team leader. 1 team leader per team. We are also getting the story re written.
Ferrett

www.shogunmod.com
Its your time to choose.

Why do I doubt you speak Japanese and know how general that word is?
Ferrett

www.shogunmod.com
Its your time to choose.

It is impossible to copyright words in common usage today in any language, you could never copyright "toilet"...

However you''ll find that most game names are not copyrighted, but trademarked, (that trademark usually covers spelling, font style, etc...) you may find that "Shogun: " is actually trademarked.. in which case you will get sued for infringement of that trademark.. which means whatever it is you use bears so much resembelence to the trademark that its hard to tell the difference between two products.

One example I can use is that Sainsburys (a supermarket chain here in the UK, for those who dont know) got sued by the company that makes Coke, because Sainsburys new cola packaging was white text on a red label (The text unsuppringly enough said "Cola") Coke basically said it looked too much like thier brand logo and was therefore protected by trademark laws (And I think they actually won)...

I understand, but we are not a "comercial" product, so I doubt that anyone would waste their time suing a company that isn''t selling the product. Thank you for you insight though! Any words about my plot and design yet?
Ferrett

www.shogunmod.com
Its your time to choose.

I must say (unhappily) that in the ever consuming greed that is surrounding what used to be a bunch of nerds playing a D&D rip off on their company''s mainframe, will even go after a "company" that isn''t selling the product... I know you posted for comments on the game itself (Good Idea too, I''m not one for designing though so my thoughts wouldn''t do much to help you...)
ok back to my original point....

The computer industry is just that an industry, so if anyone/company thinks "Gee thats just like my trademarked name" They are going to take your butt to court, IE: College kids a few years ago were getting lawsuits(sp?) forwriting Glide wrappers, and now Xtreem Games is getting nailed by hasbro for making "clones" or games that use simular looking pieces or themes...

So it is not only posible that they will go after you it is most probible, now you can continue on with the name, and take the chance in most cases you will get a letter writen by a company lawyer stateing "you have to stop or chance blah blah in your workings or you face a lawsuit(sp?)" and thats it...

~GIBbie

p.s. I''m not anything of a writer, so please ignore my bad puctuation and sentance structure... ;0)