Project: Slenderman
Please no bad comments I know that slender is a bit overused however I am making on that actually has a story (I don’t think it has been done yet that’s why I’m doing it).
Story:
You are a paranormal investigator for Paranormal Monthly you are sent out to the woods were children have gone missing and your brother died. People say the have sighted this so called “Slender man” however there is no proof. You are set to Courts Common to see if he is real…
That’s all I’ve one at the moment, I’m working on what happens and how it ends. Here is it so far. (Your brother is Jake Johnson and you are Kyle Johnson).
Also when I say original I mean not done before not the original game!
looks cool, good luck, Don’t listen if other people try to discourage your game, go with your original idea and stick too it trust me people are going to ask you to change things but don’t listen if they’re criticizing in a negative way, there is a positive way(constructive criticism) to criticize and a negative way to criticize, remember that
I’m going to ignore your first sentence. Slender is not original. Use something else. Keep the game, change the theme. Wahoo, originality.
Even just change the word slender to something else. So easy. Get recognized for YOUR game, not riding off the coattails of someone elses’.
im not talking about slender im talking about his original idea, meaning the idea he first had before people try to change it, i don’t want him to change his game based off negative criticism, if someone starts something and talk about over the web land say im making this game and it will be great etc., the least they can do is finish it, i started making a slender game and i finished it, all that needs to be done is making sure everything works properly but from my experience i have learned its much better when you make a game that is original that way you have freedom and no limits on creativity. (im talking about my next game not my recent one) The whole make a slender game has been a great learning experience, i learned some javascript and to model envirements and buildings in blender which are being used for my next project
I was not referring to you, sorry if it looked that way.
Either way, changing ‘Slenderman’ into something else is a trivial thing. So why bother to put yourself in the line of fire just cos of a lack of creativity?
this is a pretty profound statement, and good advice, imho.
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Project: Black Witch of the Court
You are a paranormal investigator for Paranormal Monthly you are sent out to the woods were children have gone missing and your brother died. People say the have sighted this so called “Black Witch of the Court” however there is no proof. You are set to Courts Common to see if she is real…
That’s all I’ve one at the moment, I’m working on what happens and how it ends. Here is it so far. (Your brother is Jake Johnson and you are Kyle Johnson).
There,…not saying ‘Witches’ are wholey original,…but now you have something that doesn’t carry the current backlash of baggage that Slenderman is quickly building.
Watching your vid, which is nice, btw,…my first reaction was Blair Witch for some reason anyways.
Be that as it may,…I cannot tell you Not to do what you like. If this is a learning project sure,…knock yourself out. I would just recommend using ‘Slenderman’ as a placeholder for now,…don’t pigeonhole your project into one thing just yet,…and replace assets when further along, or if you come up with a more original idea. Who knows,…as you develop,…new ideas may pop into your head.
People on these forums are so closed minded sometimes.
Go ahead and use Slenderman. There is no problem with it if you can spin an original story on the subject. Obviously, do not copy any elements of how Slender works, like collecting pages, because that is unoriginal in every way. Make a whole new objective, use Slenderman in a different way. Slenderman as the enemy is perfectly fine.
But Slenderman is overused. As I said, people should be recognised for what their character/game/whatever ideas. Not for being a ripoff just because someone who used slenderman got popular first.
Someone chooses something due to inspiration. Even any games you have made is inspired something. Just because one game used a character that is in the open domain, does not restrict everyone from using it. If someone is inspired by something, they will work harder at it. Slender was an extremely basic game, yet fun. It will always be the almost first Slenderman Game (And the first that got popular) that was actually scary. But you have to admit: The game had no story. No Slenderman game has a story. His and mine follow different universes, both with a story (Idk how large his story is, but mine is pretty deep). We both use Slenderman, and now we’re thought of as copies for using a character. If I were to make an FPS, and were to have you fight terrorists from Russia, or from the middle east, am I instantly unoriginal, even if the rest of my FPS game is entirely unique?
Just like not every FPS is a clone of Call of Duty, not every Slenderman game is a clone of Slender.
It’s a myth created on an internet forum. I say this because it makes me sad to see people being sheep when they could really use what they have to make something that shows what THEY can do, not what the can do just because someone else is doing it. All these new guys come in, and they waste their talent on something completely stale, when they could use all of the skills they have to make something that is truly theirs.
Thanks for the support, Im not going to copy the slender games but thing like staring at him kills you I will implement into it. so hopefully this will be a unique slender man game.
Agreed!, im making a ‘Slender Clone’ and well its our first game, were just doing it as a learning experience, and hopefully get a good an base from it, not to rip off or copy.
