Yes Ender's Game sounds like an interesting idea for a game. Based off a book that's based off a genius boy who play game simulations to destroy an evil ant colony...
Lets just get a promise that we won't get the sequels to the books as well. I just couldn't stand them.
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@TaggarT6 coming soon to a theater near you!: No, I'm pretty sure it'd just be a WiiWare title where you use the remote to scratch swear words off of public restroom walls... Hmmm, this is like some crazy telephone game or something, okay, now the next person has to try to turn some part of Catcher in the Rye into a game...
As much as I enjoyed the book "Ender's Game", and as glad as I am to hear the author talk enthusiastically about the game he would like to see made, I can't help but think of another highly regarded writer who has been envolved in gaming: Clive Barker.
"Undying" was/is a great game, but "Jericho" was a huge dissapointment to me. Since 1985 when I read the first his collection of short stories ("The Books of Blood", although released differently in the US), Clive Barker became one of favorite living authors. After "Everville" his books just didn't do much for me, but his early work (including the first two Hellraiser movies) remain some of my all-time favorites.
I just hope Orson Scott Card doesn't end up like Clive when it comes to games.
I still think Advent Rising was a great game (developed by the guys who started Chair & written by Orson Scott card). I think its failing was that it was too ambitious for last generation's hardware causing which left the game feeling glitchy. Too bad really since its unlikely that world of Advent Rising will ever be explored again.
Also, is there a minigame where you totally alter the political destiny of the world by blog posts, in a pretend argument with a sibling's sock puppet?
I'm worried for the game because of the 2D/3D thing. It's hard to properly represent a 3D space with a 2D frame. Most of the 3D games out there take some liberties and fudges. But that, alas, is the point of that whole section of the book, and what really set Card apart as a SF writer.
Though, you might want to take care with 'nutcase,' because most of his views are shared with other Mormons, and that's a dark paint to use with a pretty broad brush.
But, yes, I highly disapprove of and disagree with most of his commentary and non-fiction writing.
I loved Ender's Game when I read it so long ago. I always wondered if one day there would be a mass hive like gaming experience that would serve an outside cause. Like everyone pooling together to solve a complex equation or even a detective MMO that used real evidence and cold cases for people to solve. One day I bet there will be such a thing.
Honestly, Ender's Game is one of my favorite books of all time. As corny as it sounds its up there with Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, and The Jungle. The universe is immersive and if they could transfer that feeling to a game it would be incredible. The idea of a version of the fantasy game just has me brimming with excitement alone.
@Uglydemon: While Ender's Game is quite an amazing book, it pales in comparison to Speaker for the Dead and (I know I'm gonna get flamed for this one) Xenocide. Ender's speaking for Marcao gives me chills every time. Anyways, enough gushing.
I always imagined an 'Ender's Game' game as taking place entirely in battle school. You play as a launchy and are thrust into a free-roaming version of the battle-school. Obviously you wouldn't attend class, because that would be a boring game. It would mostly involve the battle-room, starting with you controlling one character, then moving on to toon and army leadership. You would have to manage and gauge the potential of all your soldiers to make a formidable team.
@jookie: I disagree. If I want to be beaten over the head with the rants of a paranoid teenager, I'd return to high school. I started off agreeing with Holden's views, but he spent the first half beating me over the head with my own beliefs, then falls into delusional paranoia, still browbeating the reader with opinion. I know repetition is supposed to enhance the learning process, but repetition is boring, and really, really, annoying when it's from a whiny narrator.
@Girdot: Or, you'd go to class and so fort. It'd be like Persona, but with action/RTS elements rather than RPG/Turn Based ones. And the wicked cool sci fi setting.
@Uglydemon: It's the first go-to book that I use in arguments with Lit-Crit geeks over how S.F. can toe the line with Lit-Fic, and I often use the "Catcher in the Rye" analogy...depending on my audience, because, like Ggodo points out above, there are a lot of haters on that book.
@Chase: Be wary, though--you end up with the rug yanked out from under your feet when you hang your heart on those games. For a time, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series looked to be shaping up into a game. There were even screenshots. And yes, yes, the game was developed, and released, but only after a bit of a scuffle and delayed development, resulting in an end project with much lower achievements than initially planned.
And...it's a first-person shooter. Why would you do that to Wheel of Time? Why? It's like turning Lady Lovely Locks into an RTS. It boggles the mind.
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Lets just get a promise that we won't get the sequels to the books as well. I just couldn't stand them.
05/29/09
There's potential in the Shadow series (The one about Bean), but certainly not the drawn out, contrived Ender sequels.
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Let me know when a FPS version of Catcher in the Rye drops, so the raping of my literary education is complete.
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Hmmm, this is like some crazy telephone game or something, okay, now the next person has to try to turn some part of Catcher in the Rye into a game...
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I'm sure only about 5% of high schoolers would like it.
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Shame Undertow was poor
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I thought the single player was good fun. Multiplayer, however, not so much. Then again I got it free. Probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
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"Undying" was/is a great game, but "Jericho" was a huge dissapointment to me. Since 1985 when I read the first his collection of short stories ("The Books of Blood", although released differently in the US), Clive Barker became one of favorite living authors. After "Everville" his books just didn't do much for me, but his early work (including the first two Hellraiser movies) remain some of my all-time favorites.
I just hope Orson Scott Card doesn't end up like Clive when it comes to games.
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I'm worried for the game because of the 2D/3D thing. It's hard to properly represent a 3D space with a 2D frame. Most of the 3D games out there take some liberties and fudges. But that, alas, is the point of that whole section of the book, and what really set Card apart as a SF writer.
But maybe I'm over thinking that.
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Orson Scott Card is a political/religious nutcase.
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Though, you might want to take care with 'nutcase,' because most of his views are shared with other Mormons, and that's a dark paint to use with a pretty broad brush.
But, yes, I highly disapprove of and disagree with most of his commentary and non-fiction writing.
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We all know that game was fucking amazing, though it being released when it was, and it having ass tons of bugs, tons of people were put off by it.
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I always imagined an 'Ender's Game' game as taking place entirely in battle school. You play as a launchy and are thrust into a free-roaming version of the battle-school. Obviously you wouldn't attend class, because that would be a boring game. It would mostly involve the battle-room, starting with you controlling one character, then moving on to toon and army leadership. You would have to manage and gauge the potential of all your soldiers to make a formidable team.
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And...it's a first-person shooter. Why would you do that to Wheel of Time? Why? It's like turning Lady Lovely Locks into an RTS. It boggles the mind.