Best Game Adaptation

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

What Brandon Sanderson book do people think would be made into the best game, and why?

I personally think a Mistborn strategy game or a rithmatist dueling game would be the best, but I want to know what other people think.

[Turtle373 he/him]

I think Elantris would work really well, because you've got "spells" (Aons) with casting times, super strong berserkers (Dakhors), and Paladin monks kinda (Chayshan), as well as forging and bloodmaking. So I think it would simple to make and still be a lot of fun

[Ishar]

I am not sure, but I am pretty sure there are already a couple cosmere based video games. Somebody would need to fact check me on that though. I also think that a Threnody based game or a Sixth of the Dusk based game could work.

 

[Turtle373 he/him]

5 minutes ago, Ishar said:

I am not sure, but I am pretty sure there are already a couple cosmere based video games. Somebody would need to fact check me on that though. I also think that a Threnody based game or a Sixth of the Dusk based game could work.

 

there's a mistborn RPG and I think they were trying to develop a computer game but I think they stopped, but I'm not sure about that

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

14 hours ago, Turtle373 said:

there's a mistborn RPG

There is the board game, but they did cancel the computer game:

Questioner

Has Mistborn: Birthright officially tanked?

Brandon Sanderson

Has Mistborn: Birthright officially tanked?

So this is the video game. So the kind of longer-- the short answer is yes. The kind of longer answer is the developer who was making the video game bought the movie rights for a year, because we wanted to combine the movie rights and the video game rights. We gave him only a year, because we were like, "You haven't made any films. But we want to tie these rights together. It sounds like a good thing." We gave him a year, and he lives in LA so he knows a lot of Holywood people. "Sure, give it a try." In a year he couldn't get a film made, or really moving. You can't make one in a year anyway, and so the rights for everything have lapsed, and now he's talking to the people that we sold the Mistborn rights to, to say, "Hey, maybe I can make the video game if you make the film."

The problem being that new IPs in video games are very hard to get funding for. And those who work in video games and know them are nodding their heads. And so he tried very hard. He's made a lot of video games. Most of his games as you know from looking at his developer site are all movie tie-ins, right? He wanted to try a book tie-in. He's made good games. He has a lot of people on his staff who've made really good games with a lot of different companies. They could make a good Mistborn game. They needed, you know $20 million. Which, they can usually go to people who give them funding, and say, "Hey, we're making the video game for, you know, Kung Fu Panda." Which they did. And they're like, "Oh, okay here's you're--you know-- $10 million, $20 million. We know this is a safe bet. This video game will sell."

When they say they're making one on Mistborn they're like, "Where's the movie?" And so it was very hard for him to get the funding. It was very hard for him to get things built. I think he still wants to make it. But now he's in talks with the guys making the movie, and I don't think it will ever happen unless the film gets made. If the film gets made I think it will happen. I pitched to him last week doing a 2D side-scroller Symphony of the Night style Metroidvania Mistborn game, which is something we can fund in-house, right? And just kind of do what a lot of the cool indie games are doing right now. It's like modern design aesthetics, but a 2D sort of thing. Salt and Sanctuary comes to mind, if you guys played that. You know, you can do some really cool stylized stuff and really interesting game mechanics, but if you want to go full 3D, this generation console, like 20 million is like the low end of what you need. And so that's where we are.

White Sand vol.1 release party (June 28, 2016)

[Wander89 he/him]

Was hoping this was a Best Video Game Adaptation website and was going to obviously say the new Sonic /s.

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

Sonic is in the cosmere confirmed

[Scion of the Mists]

There are already two released Sanderson board games, with an Stormlight-themed expansion for a third game on the way.  There's also the Mistborn RPG.  

As far as video games go, as much fun as flying through the air as a Mistborn would be, The Rithmatist is the best bet.  It's got clearly defined and relatively simple rules, and it even originated from Brandon riffing off of existing game genres.  

[Mushroom Catalog he/him]

3 minutes ago, Scion of the Mists said:

The Rithmatist is the best bet.  It's got clearly defined and relatively simple rules, and it even originated from Brandon riffing off of existing game genres.

I was thinking about it more, and this actually needs to be a thing. I kind of want to learn how to program, just so I can make this game, but I can almost guarantee I am far too lazy for that. 

It would be really hard to play without a stylus, unless there is a drag and drop sort of thing... But on a tablet with a stylus, it could definitely be a game. There could be one on one duels or a Melee with a whole bunch of teams. But seeing as how I don't actually know programming, I have no idea how realistic it is to actually be made.

[Wander89 he/him]

8 hours ago, Mushroom Catalog said:

Sonic is in the cosmere confirmed

Sonic as an Edgedancer!

[Snipexe he/him]

17 hours ago, Mushroom Catalog said:

I was thinking about it more, and this actually needs to be a thing. I kind of want to learn how to program, just so I can make this game, but I can almost guarantee I am far too lazy for that. 

It would be really hard to play without a stylus, unless there is a drag and drop sort of thing... But on a tablet with a stylus, it could definitely be a game. There could be one on one duels or a Melee with a whole bunch of teams. But seeing as how I don't actually know programming, I have no idea how realistic it is to actually be made.

Or a mobile game, I could see how drawing the shapes with your fingers could work.

[Scion of the Mists]

On 5/3/2019 at 5:13 PM, Mushroom Catalog said:

I was thinking about it more, and this actually needs to be a thing. I kind of want to learn how to program, just so I can make this game, but I can almost guarantee I am far too lazy for that. 

It would be really hard to play without a stylus, unless there is a drag and drop sort of thing... But on a tablet with a stylus, it could definitely be a game. There could be one on one duels or a Melee with a whole bunch of teams. But seeing as how I don't actually know programming, I have no idea how realistic it is to actually be made.

Yeah, I was thinking tablet, either with or without a stylus.  

My game programming skills are rusty, but I would totally dabble around with this in my free time.  The problem is I have an iPad, and it's expensive to get a developer license, plus you need a Mac.  

[Jaywalk he/him]

I'd take a turn-based strategy game similar to Fire Emblem set on Nalthis, or perhaps Sel. Both have less action based magics, which I think could be good for the slower format of strategy.