Wouldn't it be cool?
If like in the novel, TellTale implimented the Infant Tyrannosaur that killed Regis?
Like perhaps show a charactor who stumbles upon the infant eating his corpse?
Like perhaps show a charactor who stumbles upon the infant eating his corpse?
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While that would be cool, Telltale wasn't able to license the use of the novels. They only have the rights to the films.
Now that's not needless to say we won't stumble upon another dinosaur eating the corpse of a park employee or something though. It does appear that we will get a glimpse of what's left of Nedry.
Hard to say. Maybe Universal gave the rights back to the Chrichton family after his death, or it's possible that Universal didn't feel the novels were necessary to be part of the package deal when Telltale sought the rights to the game. Personally I'd love to see games based on the novels to give that familiar yet new feel to the story.
They likely don't own all the rights to the book.
Then you add in the added difficult layer for figuring these things out: IP rights revert after a period of time, and eventually go public domain and/or open to reserving rights if they don't have a production run every so often.
One thing I dont get about this. Where is the line drawn between what you get from the novels and your ideas? Do you sometimes go and say "You know what, this would be AWESOME!" before someone says "Sorry, its been done in the novels".
I mean certain concepts and events in the novel can be pretty broad and generic, I'm just worried how this can impact the story you guys want to tell due to seemingly petty restriction.
Explain more?
eg.: the raft-on-the-jungle-river scene.
even if TELLTALE do not use Grant and the kids on the raft but instead somehow Harding or some other characters try to use the jungle river and ride in a raft...even if that is the case, it could be ILLEGAL because it's a novel-element which wasn't used in the movies and thus TTG do not have the rights to implement that?
or underground tunnels? or the safari hotel? is that movie or is it only novel canon? has the safari hotel to look different than it is described in the novels because it has only been mentionend in the movie-brochure but never been shown?
is a juvenile t-rex also novel-ized and thus not permitted to use?
what about the aviary itself? it appeared only in the novel....
maybe someone can clear some things up for me
My guess is that they can use Novel ideas.
The JP license is prolly mainly to use the environment, Dinosaur models and sounds etc. Thats my guess though.
Like, we can't refer to
I think there's a bit of approval through Universal if we reference a neat idea in the novel that wasn't expressly rebuked by the movie. But we're trying to ignore the novel altogether except where we run into a technical plot point where we're like, "that science fact was never explained in the movie, but I know they touched on it in the books."
Okay in an interview though you mentioned (or a telltale worker) said that all the movie dinos will be their, along with a few the movie sorta overlooked (excluding troodon.)
...yes...?
so isnt that more novel based?
How?
Michael Crichton didn't invent dinosaurs.
Well no, what I mean is... nah nevermind, but I got a question for you.
Lol-- What's the question??
I think what he's referring to is that the Jurassic Park novel had an exact list of what all dinosaurs were in Jurassic Park, as well as the numbers. Personally, I don't see the problem using that list since the movie specifically states that there are fifteen species on the island.
of course you can't refer to things that did not happen in the movie.
but what about things that might haven taken place beside what we have seen?
eg.:
Or the existence of maintenance vehicles? A raptor nest? A juvenile T-Rex?
But using clues from the novel wouldn't be a bad idea IF you are allowed and willing to do so.
I'd lol @ that
Except that the movie canon has a totally different list than than the novel.So the team cannot use random dinosaurs like Maiasaura and Euoplocephalus (of course I would love to see an ankylosaur in the game) Check out the original 15 embryos thread for more on this topic.
Sure the lists of dinosaurs are different from book to movie-- but in the movie, our only real indication of what dinosaurs are being genetically developed on Isla Nublar are the fleeting glimpses we get of Nedry stealing the embryos (correct me if I'm wrong.)
But JP II and III opens up the idea that more dinosaurs have been bred and released on Isla Sorna. By saying that there are a few other dinosaurs that didn't make the public list or didn't manage to get screen time in the movie, or by some other device were introduced to the island off camera, we aren't contradicting the film.
We have already decided to avoid the issue of contradicting character stories by basing the plot around another cast of characters dealing with the events of JP I from their own unique perspective.
We could certainly draw reference from the book. But when it comes down to an event that we saw transpire in the movie we cannot change that in favor of something that transpires in the book.
Right?
And i agree if you guys make other games, based upon JP2 and/or JP3 ,you can introduce as many new dinosaurs as you see fit...diversity is always a good thing.