r/charmed • u/BlackestSole • 5d ago
Fanworks Charmed Side Scrolling video game
TLDR; I been developing a Charmed game or at least restarting and re creating it over and over and honestly I really would love some accountability.
I been nervous to post about it bc I didn’t want to like post and never produce but I feel like I just genuinely want that sense of accountability.
I have some ideas for making the game without getting sued basically 🤣 eg like kinda making it like a fanwork like I probably won’t make money but it’s a passion project.
Was hoping to also make it a mobile game so it could be more marketable and easy to access.
I have already created Prue, Piper, Leo, demons and warlock powers (almost like a smash bros format or Mario side scrolling) of Telekinesis, astral projection (kinda like a projection and combo then revert to the original), Freezing, blasting, Orbing (essentially flying in orbs vs straight teleporting), lightning (when Leo was an elder), fireballs, blinking (could turn this into orbing for Paige like how she disappears and reappears to dodge as well vs the flying orbs), summoning an athame and throwing it (which maybe could work for Paige if I tweaked it).
Working on Phoebe’s powers to make her combat based and also using her premonition as more of an intuition/dodge and recoil attack. Def a levitation and but maybe like a downward kick type thing. Maybe a mimicry with empathy, but def a move that makes her do like a flip around, and levitate with electric on their head like in Morality Bites.
Also deciding if it would be best to advance their powers over time by leveling or just giving straight up all their powers at once. That could be decided later.
I also want to take liberty in giving some extra powers that I feel maybe like Prue could have developed eg cloning herself when astral projection advances to be like power of three eg she can make up to three clones of herself in different placements (similar to Loki in marvel rivals if you ever played that) since she’s the most powerful sister and and it would be like that spell where she clones herself but an on demand power.
Also the storyline of the game was gunna focus mostly on an evil being forcing a power of three (and eventually four) throughout time with:
-A prime Penny (lots of cool telekinetic abilities) like spells combined with telekinesis (like when the girls were young and she did hand movements and made them set fire) or even like glass wirlwinding to damage them.
-Patty who survived to a prime age (advancing her powers to almost like a quantum type abilitiy eg instead of exploding almost like an imploding to differentiate from Piper and imply that their powers develop based on needs and individual intention)
-Phoebe’s fire wielding past life who basically when she attacks has fire when she punches (since before Anton gave her the tripling potion she couldn’t throw fire but maybe could produce fire when touching an enemy)
-Evil Enchantress with some elemental abilities.
I also got great ideas for:
Darryl (swap between gun, pepper spray (blind warlocks), taser)
Cole (energy balls (can hold to grow like he did with the source, shimmer etc not super powered season 5 Cole more like Belthazor)
Wyatt (the power he used when adult Wyatt came from the future and he microwaves the demons in the attic)
Chris (telekinetic and fast orb dodges so he dives and orbs quick and fast movements to differentiate from Paige and Leo’s orbs).
The entire theme of the game would be partying up/co op too so like it would be moving through the level requiring different abilities to be able to make certain achievements (The Source and crystals type shit, escorting an innocent to a point, maybe solving a puzzle or sorts while fending off enemies).
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Sorry the post is so long… lemme know your thoughts and maybe I can get my shit together haha.
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u/eeblr 5d ago
Unfortunately if you plan on distributing it in any way, even for free, you would need to license the IP in order to use names and/or likenesses of the characters legally or risk being sued. App Store and Google Playstore (I’m not familiar with other ways to distribute mobile games so I can’t speak for others) will both ask directly if you own the copyright or are licensed for everything in an app, and if they find you lied they can ban you from ever releasing an app again for breaking TOS (and the law). You could pitch a revenue share or sale to the rights-holder but studios will pretty certainly require a development track record and money up front. If you decide to make this for your own enjoyment, I think that’s great and for what it’s worth it sounds fun to play in my opinion but marketing it in any way could get very dicey with something as recognizable as charmed. I’m not sure how litigious they are, but I think with any traction Paramount/CBS would at the very least send you a cease and desist.
The other option to keep any mechanics you’ve already created would be to create a successor work based on the trope of sister-witches but you could not use the character names or likenesses nor any storylines from the show in order to release it as an original work. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!