- Jun 12, 2021
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I've got an idea for a side-project of mine, a noncommercial fan-game set in the Silver Age Marvel universe. The protagonist - a student at Midtown High with Peter Parker, Flash Thompson, Liz Allen, etc - develops energy manipulation powers to steal or bestow energy with a touch - something greatly enhanced by sexual activity. The game would cover the development of their powers against a backdrop of the events of early Marvel comics (Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Thor, X-Men).
As currently planned, it'd be text-based and written in Twine as an HTML game. I know that there are "parody" fan-games that are straight up commercial projects, but I'd probably set up a tip jar at the most.
However.
I could take the basic idea, strip away the Marvel IP, come up with a superhero setting, and develop it as a commercial project around the same general character and progression. This I'd develop in Ren'Py as a VN using visual assets created in Daz. So while it would lack the Marvel tie-in (sort of the point of the initial idea) it'd have the benefit of visuals... and I'm not really sure anybody cares about 60-year old comics.
Opinions and feedback on my options here are appreciated.
As currently planned, it'd be text-based and written in Twine as an HTML game. I know that there are "parody" fan-games that are straight up commercial projects, but I'd probably set up a tip jar at the most.
However.
I could take the basic idea, strip away the Marvel IP, come up with a superhero setting, and develop it as a commercial project around the same general character and progression. This I'd develop in Ren'Py as a VN using visual assets created in Daz. So while it would lack the Marvel tie-in (sort of the point of the initial idea) it'd have the benefit of visuals... and I'm not really sure anybody cares about 60-year old comics.
Opinions and feedback on my options here are appreciated.
