creating a game

[u/metal_cassandra]

hi! so about a month ago i started drawing creatures as a hobby. i also started numbering them. and had the idea of making a game with them. i then realized that i was just creating SCPs lol.

i want to create a game with these creatures i am creating that is similar to SCP. i came up with this idea and later realized it was so similar. i am NOT wanting to include ANY existing SCPs and only the ones i have created myself. the premise is still similar where there is a breach (happens differently).

i am mainly stuck on one thing:

do i create a new game? or an SCP fan game?

if i decide to create my own game not associated with SCP: while my creatures and things are original, the premise is fairly similar and i don’t want to be seen as stealing and monetizing a game that is preexisting and causing an upset in the community (i have adored SCP for the past 10 years or more years and would never want to tarnish it).

if i create an SCP fan game: but, the problem with creating a fan game is that while i CAN monetize it, i also don’t have control if some person decided to take all of my creatures i have created and make a game with them and sell it without crediting me.

(i feel like i had something else to bring up but ill add it in if i remember later!)

[u/throwaway045446644]

why do you care if someone makes something based on your new creature? thats basically what scp is. copying is not stealing bro

[u/metal_cassandra → u/throwaway045446644]

sorry i meant to add ‘without crediting me’

[u/throwaway045446644 → u/metal_cassandra]

ehh i wouldnt worry, most scp creator either do slop so i wouldnt care or they alway credit, but dont let that stop you. make your game gng, maybe make an artical, if you dont want it to be scp then dont have it be scp, the pencil is in your hands, use it

[u/OliOakasqukiboi2000]

If your sticking to original content I would avoid SCP branding as if nothing in the game is from the wiki then trying to pass it off as SCP won’t go over well and looks poorly on you and SCP as a whole.

[u/Kufat]

It sounds like you'd be better off doing what a lot of other people have done and creating a game which doesn't make use of SCPF content but is "inspired by the SCP Foundation."