NationStates Jolt Archive

I would like for Artemis Fowl to somehow be made into a video game.

The Bible. :D

The vampire Lestat.

I'd like to say something by Pratchet but that wouldn't work.

Instead I'll go for the Old Testament. You've got to love genocide and invicible wariors of god....

The Bible. :D

Damn you beat me.....

Tales of the Dying Earth, MMPOG.

How do you think they would make Artemis Fowl into a game ?

All Quiet on the Western Front

Don Quijote de la Mancha would kick ass as a MMORPG. I will, of course, play Sancho Panza.:D

The Bible. :D

Only if I get to play as Jesus.

Not so much a book, but a Manga, but i'd also like to see a game of it: Vampire Knight. :D

Not so much a book, but a Manga, but i'd also like to see a game of it: Vampire Knight. :D

I think there´s one already...

Les 120 Jours De Sodome by D.A.F. De Sade.

I remember reading once about someone who was planning to make a resource management/stealth sim based upon The Diary of Anne Frank. Now that would be controversial; all this making fun of the Bible stuff is for pussies.

Only if I get to play as Jesus.

Could Moses be a bonus level?

I would want to see what they could do with The Old Man and the Sea. :p

I would want to see what they could do with The Old Man and the Sea. :p
That needs to be a Wii game.

How about a Jesus of Nazereth FPS? Twin UZI's, an AK and all that crap, mixed in with biblical teachings.

Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series. That was supposed to be made into a video game but never made it.

I'd also like to see some sort of RPG involving Discworld.

Sun Tsu's the art of war.

I'd like to say something by Pratchet but that wouldn't work.

Instead I'll go for the Old Testament. You've got to love genocide and invicible wariors of god....

Rincewind Races??? Out run Death, doom and destruction. Use the game pads like they make for DDR.

Tsu Tsu's the art of war.

Sun Tzu. And it wouldn't be that good of a game, there's no plot. It's just a bunch of advice.


I'd like to see Ender's Game be made into a game, because it's pretty much a video game already.

I'd say H2G2 if it wasn't already a game.

EDIT: WOOT! Thousandth post!

My vote goes for Starship troopers. *readies flamer*

"Who's In a Family" just to see the anti-gay marriage crowd shit a brick.

Sun Tzu. And it wouldn't be that good of a game, there's no plot. It's just a bunch of advice.

That's kinda the joke. :p

Halo 3

Sun Tzu. And it wouldn't be that good of a game, there's no plot. It's just a bunch of advice.

On the other hand, Shogun Total War has incorporated the principles of the Art of War in its battles.

The Bible. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw

Sun Tzu. And it wouldn't be that good of a game, there's no plot. It's just a bunch of advice.
There were a couple of games titled Art of War released in the 80's. They never worked on my emulator, so I've no clue how close a connection there was.

The Bible. :D

It exists. I own it. I can't play it. They haven't finished with the backward compatibility yet.

World War Z, Max Brooks
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

Karma Sutra *nod*

Karma Sutra *nod*

For Wii and DS.

Karma Sutra *nod*

I think that's already been done too.

The Bible. :D

like this? (http://www.cravegames.com/games/BibleGame/index.html)

Book I'd like to see as a Video game?

hmm...

dunno if it's been mentioned... but...

The Joy of Sex (on the DS... the touch screen could prove very useful... for the Wii... too many possiblities with that remote...)
Driver's Ed book (too many racing/crashing games.)
Snowcrash (to play as the Deliverator!)
Shadow Force (The World's Elite militaries are forced to work together.)

For Wii and DS.

Have both of them vibrate! :D

I think that's already been done too.

Name the game then.

Name the game then.

There's a Karma Sutra game avaliable for mobile phones. Can't be bothered to find a link - besides, i'd get banned. :p

Have both of them vibrate! :D

And have Konami make it so it can be a rhythm game.

And have Konami make it so it can be a rhythm game.

It is all about the motion of the ocean....

How did I know this was going to end up with Wii jokes?
Anyway, new book to video game idea: The Tale of Two Cities.
But it's a remake, so it would be an RTS.
Or: Captain Underpants. Feel free to run with that idea. :p

The Koran should be made into a film. Its not like that could cause trouble or anything:p

The Wheel Of Time MMORPG

Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series. That was supposed to be made into a video game but never made it.

World War Z, Max Brooks

These

like this? (http://www.cravegames.com/games/BibleGame/index.html)

Or this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures

Or this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures

fuck yeah. found this for like a buck a long time ago. that noah is one badass dude.

fuck yeah. found this for like a buck a long time ago. that noah is one badass dude.

I always threw baby Jesus into the river or at the scorpions.

edit: I guess it was baby Moses I was throwing and spiders I was throwing him at but it was still fun. I haven't played it in years so my memory is a bit hazy.

heeshee rendivious by, i think it was, fred pohl, or whoever wrote that series.

i actually wrote something a little like that, in spegetti basic, back in vic20/c-64/8bit days.

basically you're faced with a set of pretty color coded settings, no one has the slightest idea what any of them mean, on an alien ship, a whole fleet of fully functionaly but completely abondond alien ships. set them right, pretty much a matter of shere luck to begin with, and you reach a pot of alien tecnology gold at that end of the starbow. set them wrong, and you'll run out of air and starve before you get there.

all you can do once you launch, is hope the turnover/midway point is reached before you know you'll starve/suffocate before you get there. oh yah, and the seats are increadly uncomfortable, having been designed by and for people who'se bodies must be shaped very differently from humans. that or they took the very odly shaped cussions with them.

heeshee rendivious by, i think it was, fred pohl, or whoever wrote that series.<snip>
There is a "Frederick Pohl's Gateway" (title of the first book in the Heechee series) from Legend Entertainment - a 1991 or 92 release I think.

The Koran should be made into a film. Its not like that could cause trouble or anything:p
This (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074896/) is close enough and not a bad one either - if you don't count many dramatic freedoms taken.

I'd like to say something by Pratchet but that wouldn't work.Worked for Psygnosis, GT Interactive and Dro Soft :) There are actually three Discworld games, "Discworld," "Discworld II: Mortality Bytes!" and "Discworld Noir" (last one was a dramatic failure in my humble opinion).

As for the OP, I'd love to see a good, Oblivion-like rendition of Lucky Luke :)

Cheerio!

I want to see a new Dune RTS. It'd have to be a huge expansive system that's as much a government simulator as it is an RTS, though.

The Odyssey
The Iliad
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Mahabharata

I didn't like the series that much (got too gratuitous for my liking) BUT I do think George Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" series would make an awesome game.
several in fact: A Strategy, an MMORPG or an RPG game.
Heck perhaps even a FPS could work.

I didn't like the series that much (got too gratuitous for my liking) BUT I do think George Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" series would make an awesome game.
several in fact: A Strategy, an MMORPG or an RPG game.
Heck perhaps even a FPS could work.

I'd rather he just release his books in a timely fashion first. God damn, that man has to be the world's most successful and talent procrastinator.

I'd rather he just release his books in a timely fashion first. God damn, that man has to be the world's most successful and talent procrastinator.
Yeah. That also put me off his works. I really got into the first book. It had a level of medieval realism that is missing from all other fantasy books.
2nd book not so much me did like. It felt like he was going out of his way to be as brutal as possible - especially to the 'good' side - and some of the characters started becoming caricatures of themselves.
My fears were confirmed by the 3rd book.

I thought I might give the 4th a go, but it took so long for him to bring it out that by the time it did come out I'd all but forgotten who was who, why and what the hell was going on. I didn't fancy re-reading them all again so gave up.

Argonautica
Paradise Lost, playing as Lucifer.

I thought I might give the 4th a go, but it took so long for him to bring it out that by the time it did come out I'd all but forgotten who was who, why and what the hell was going on. I didn't fancy re-reading them all again so gave up.

I recommend the fourth book. I generally hate fantasy, but Song is probably one of my favorite series of all time. Hell, Pyetr...in the last book...omfg. The series definitely has those moments where you're just reading along and the characters are acting in character but you're still saying to yourself, "No way, no fucking way is he gonna...holy shit, he did."

Everybody poops!

Everybody poops!

"Well we're catholic."

"Oh, then you'll want 'You're a naughty child and thats concentrated evil comming out the back of you!'"

"Perfect!"

I recommend the fourth book. I generally hate fantasy, but Song is probably one of my favorite series of all time. Hell, Pyetr...in the last book...omfg. The series definitely has those moments where you're just reading along and the characters are acting in character but you're still saying to yourself, "No way, no fucking way is he gonna...holy shit, he did."
I might give it a go then.
I was also burned by from the WoT series, which just went on and on and on. When I picked up Martin's 1st book which promised to be a trilogy, I thought, "cool. Pacy well written series unlike Jordan's bloody multi-thousand page dirge". Then when it went to 4, then 5 now a promised 7 I'm just not interested.
Trilogy should be long enough to tell the story you want to tell. No need to explain everything. Part of the enjoyment of LoTR is that it leaves so much unsaid and unexplained - letting the reader imagine those bits.

I might give it a go then.
I was also burned by from the WoT series, which just went on and on and on. When I picked up Martin's 1st book which promised to be a trilogy, I thought, "cool. Pacy well written series unlike Jordan's bloody multi-thousand page dirge". Then when it went to 4, then 5 now a promised 7 I'm just not interested.
Trilogy should be long enough to tell the story you want to tell. No need to explain everything. Part of the enjoyment of LoTR is that it leaves so much unsaid and unexplained - letting the reader imagine those bits.

Eh...I think GRRM over-estimated himself a bit when he set out to make this story into a trilogy. But, say, WoT books are all like 1200 pages, no? Each of these is 600-700 pages, so really, by WoT's standard of book length, it still is a trilogy! :p

As the story stands now, it isn't so much everything being explained as it is that there are multiple important threads that not only merit explanation, but necessitate it. Also, keep in mind, that it seems that most of these threads are just the unraveled end of a larger noose that is tightening around the neck of the story's characters. I mean, there is a messiah prophecy, a definite coming doom is occurring in the north, a child is coming into his own as some crazy shape-shifting, future-seeing cripple, another young girl is successfully reforming a massive army/empire while some others have failed and mofo's are popping in and out of death like it was a bathroom in an Indian restaurant. I simply don't see how a trilogy could satisfactorily bring closure to the series.

Also, keep in mind, that we probably differ a lot in regards to literature. My opinion seems to run counter to most. For example, I think Bree is one of GRRM's best characters and my favorites are Daenarys and Jaime.

Watership Down.

So I can play it on acid.

I always threw baby Jesus into the river or at the scorpions.

edit: I guess it was baby Moses I was throwing and spiders I was throwing him at but it was still fun. I haven't played it in years so my memory is a bit hazy.

i think the scorpions were in the david and goliath part

Everybody poops!
the FPS! :p First Person Shooter for those who don't know.

World History - MMorpg

Harry Potter - Hogswart: A History
you play a student at Hogswart. attending various 'classes' and mastering various cantrips.

Or this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Adventures

there are tons of em. I have a bible adventure game for my Gameboy Advanced. :p

Any Instruction Manual.

Harry Potter - Hogswart: A History
you play a student at Hogswart. attending various 'classes' and mastering various cantrips.

That sounds boring....

That sounds boring....

oh the possiblities...

PVP
... transmute other students to different animals and items.
... sliding puking pasties and other cursed candies into other people's food.
... magical dueling.

The possibilities are endless...

Watership Down.

So I can play it on acid.

RTS?:p

The Bible. :D

Already done.

RTS?:p

"you rabbits eat grass there... you group go make some babies... uh oh... dog loose.. let out the Owlsa!..."

that does sound rather interesting...

I'm pretty sure that if one took the book "Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising" and turned it into an MMOFPS/Simulator (like World War Two Online but with modern equipment), it'd be pretty intense.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (RPG)
Idiot's Guide to Physics, Johnnie T. Dennis

Eh...I think GRRM over-estimated himself a bit when he set out to make this story into a trilogy. But, say, WoT books are all like 1200 pages, no? Each of these is 600-700 pages, so really, by WoT's standard of book length, it still is a trilogy! :p

I don't read very fast but I managed to knock off the WoT books in a week or two each, I find they're very easy reads so the length of them isn't so bad.

Anyway, there ought to be a "war and peace" video game, that way we can make a really long, really boring game with which to judge all others!

*I've never read War and peace but I haven't met anyone who liked it yet...

"you rabbits eat grass there... you group go make some babies... uh oh... dog loose.. let out the Owlsa!..."

that does sound rather interesting...

...Or strange...:wink:

Wind in willows Total War or Rupert The Bear Hack and Slash

...Or strange...:wink:

think... World of Warcraft with fluffy bunnies.

hmm...

Keith Lamer's Bolo Series...

World History - MMorpg

Couldn't this be called Civ 4?

The dictionary would be an interesting game.

Any Instruction Manual.

"Insert Cable M into Slot F"
*play cheesy 70's smut soundtrack*

Johnny Got his Gun.

It starts out as a WWI FPS, and then it ends as a rhythm game where you have to press the button in time with the morse-code so he can bash out a message with his head.

Here's a hint: for the happy ending, get shot to death in the FPS part.

Ebola.






...JK

Red Star Over China, because it's about time I get to play out Mao's defeat of his Nationalist enemies. It could be part RTS, part Sim.

Five out of Five stars say every communist in China! And we can make the box look like his little red book. We'll sell millions!

I'd like to see Isaac Asimov's Foundation series turned into a Gal Civ-esque strategy game. I think it'd be cool, if executed well.

The dictionary would be an interesting game.

Wouldn't that just be Scrabble...on a screen.

My vote goes for Starship troopers. *readies flamer*
Uhm... you are aware that several games exist, right?


My nomination goes to Armor and The Forever War.

Les 120 Jours De Sodome by D.A.F. De Sade.The writing's on the wall .....

:D

Nausea, by Sartre.
Three-Fisted Tales of Bob, just about any of them, especially The Real Story.
The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, by Robert Anton Wilson.
The Book of Lists series, all of 'em.
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce.

Red Storm Rising.

I know, I know, Microprose made a Red Storm Rising game back in the '80s for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and IBM Compatibles (PCs). That was just a submarine simulator game, one of many... And that's not what I have in mind...

I'm talking about a Turn-Based Strategy game that involves all of the different aspects of the war as presented by Clancy. Naval surface warfare. Submarine warfare. Air combat. Land combat. Resource management. Logistics. I want to launch A-10 squadrons against T-72s. I want to plan the defense of Iceland against Soviet surprise attack. I want to send up an F-15 to shoot down satellites so the movements of my U.S.S. Nimitz battle group can go unobserved.

Mmmmm.... that would be a game!

One Trillion Dollars! I definitely would want to play as John Fontanelli!

And no one suggested Jennifer Government yet?!?! I'd also like that!

Watership Down.

So I can play it on acid.
I've *got to* party with you some time. :)

I'd like to see Isaac Asimov's Foundation series turned into a Gal Civ-esque strategy game. I think it'd be cool, if executed well.

I'm not sure how interesting it would be, or how it would work, to set a game in a universe where the future is predetermined.

Any book by Chalmers Johnson.

The object of the game would be to travel around and investigate the money given to the Military-Industrial Complex and save the nation and by reporting billion dollar spitballs. You would get bonus points when you find out the president wants to go to war over WMDs that were destroyed several years before he even concidered becoming president!
:p

Dale Brown - Flight of the Old Dog

There's a Karma Sutra game avaliable for mobile phones. Can't be bothered to find a link - besides, i'd get banned. :p

Hi kids! Today we're going to learn the difference between karma and the Kama Sutra. It's going to totally awesome!

Let's take a closer look at karma first. Karma stands for the total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. Heavy, no? It's a big thing in Hinduism and Buddhism.

The Kama Sutra is more like a guide that can have influence on a person's actions and conduct, if he or she is in the company of others to perform said actions with. Since Kama is the god of love in Hindu mythology, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Kama Sutra is a detailed and erotic treatise on the art of love and sexual techniques. It's a pretty ancient book, but it's still considered to be stupid fresh.

Now you know what these Sanskrit principles mean. Impress your friends with your rad knowledge!

Meh. I made a typo.

Dune: The Machine Crusade

Sartre's No Exit.

Think about it: a game you can neither win nor end.

Red Star Over China, because it's about time I get to play out Mao's defeat of his Nationalist enemies. It could be part RTS, part Sim.

Five out of Five stars say every communist in China! And we can make the box look like his little red book. We'll sell millions!

You'll do well here, young Padawan.

Dale Brown - Flight of the Old Dog

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http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/simulations/megafortress.html

Hi kids! Today we're going to learn the difference between karma and the Kama Sutra. It's going to totally awesome!

Let's take a closer look at karma first. Karma stands for the total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. Heavy, no? It's a big thing in Hinduism and Buddhism.

The Kama Sutra is more like a guide that can have influence on a person's actions and conduct, if he or she is in the company of others to perform said actions with. Since Kama is the god of love in Hindu mythology, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the Kama Sutra is a detailed and erotic treatise on the art of love and sexual techniques. It's a pretty ancient book, but it's still considered to be stupid fresh.

Now you know what these Sanskrit principles mean. Impress your friends with your rad knowledge!

You gotta admit though that the Kama Sutra would make an awesome video game. I would play it all... night... long...:D

Johnny Got his Gun.

It starts out as a WWI FPS, and then it ends as a rhythm game where you have to press the button in time with the morse-code so he can bash out a message with his head.

Here's a hint: for the happy ending, get shot to death in the FPS part.

I like it already. We can even license the Metallica song "One" to go along with it.

Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass, but as envisioned by Jan Svankmeyer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s). An adventure game with embedded mini-games.

All 31 Fantomas novels. You have to keep changing the identity of your character -- and you can never get back to who/what you were before -- as you chase the terrorist/criminal Fantomas while at the same time being accused of being Fantomas and chased by cops.

Frankenstein. A puzzle/building game.

EDIT: Also, The Cyberiad (Stanislaw Lem). Another puzzle/building game with adventure, competitive for two players. Play as either Trurl or Klapaucius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

iv got a crazy thought. Make the whole terry pratchet (Disc world) series into a video game. There are soo many things that i shudder to think about the programming

The Quoran. Or Forrest Gump. Or maybe, this is just me thinking, the lord of the rings trilogy! that would make a sweet movie as well.

Psycho wii game. You play Norman Bates.

Helter Skelter. Can either play Charlie Manson strategy game, FPS of one his followers or play Vincent Bugliosi trying to win a conviction.

iv got a crazy thought. Make the whole terry pratchet (Disc world) series into a video game. There are soo many things that i shudder to think about the programming
it could work as an MMORPG methinks.

Red Storm Rising.

I know, I know, Microprose made a Red Storm Rising game back in the '80s for the Apple II, Commodore 64 and IBM Compatibles (PCs). That was just a submarine simulator game, one of many... And that's not what I have in mind...

I'm talking about a Turn-Based Strategy game that involves all of the different aspects of the war as presented by Clancy. Naval surface warfare. Submarine warfare. Air combat. Land combat. Resource management. Logistics. I want to launch A-10 squadrons against T-72s. I want to plan the defense of Iceland against Soviet surprise attack. I want to send up an F-15 to shoot down satellites so the movements of my U.S.S. Nimitz battle group can go unobserved.

Mmmmm.... that would be a game!

They did that, somewhat, with World in Conflict. A lot of the elements of Red Storm Rising were used in the game.

Sartre's No Exit.

Think about it: a game you can neither win nor end.

Animal Crossing >_>

iv got a crazy thought. Make the whole terry pratchet (Disc world) series into a video game. There are soo many things that i shudder to think about the programming

There's a Terry Pratchett adventure/puzzle game out there with similar mechanics to Monkey Island. Very old though.

I Am America and So Can You-

Gödel, Escher, and Bach.

«.«
».»

Sartre's No Exit.

Think about it: a game you can neither win nor end.
There already is a Sims, though. In fact, you can even replicate the play by tricking three Sims into entering a room, then deleting all the doors and entertainment items. You've just got to be sure that there is a fridge in the room with them, so no one starves to death.

Yellow Pages

Sartre's No Exit.

Think about it: a game you can neither win nor end.

Already made, it's called "WoW"

Nineteen Eighty Four A Novel, George Orwell