AHC: Make Fatherland Into a Point and Click Adventure Game

Instead of the simple novelization of Fatherland, expand it into a franchise with a point and click adventure game based on it.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Have a developer in pick it up and read it on a flight, who goes onto buys the rights and makes it into a game.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
errmmm yeah this lol

Well there isn't much else. If Harris was willing to sell rights for a TV Movie, then he would have been willing to sell rights for a Game. And truth be told, back then, you mainly just need the developer become passionate about adapting it, and they'll get rights or make a similar story in their game.
 
I'm pessimistic. The book -and possible the movie which I haven't seen yet- is more of a crime drama than an action movie. More about painting a world and setting an atmosphere. If anything, it would be a detective puzzle game. And with the mood being so important, I doubt that computer graphics would be evolved enough to do the game justice until halfway 2005. If done right, you would of course have a game that would eat Ubisoft's 'CSI-the game' and 'Law & order-the game' for breakfast. Still, I'm afraid that all we'd end up with would be a fairly playable game with mediocre graphics and a story halfway reminiscent of the book. They'd probably just leave out the part of the Jewish extermination for being not suited for the label rating and just make the story about looted artwork locked away jn Switzerland.

However if any programmer would be inspired by the world and create Duke Nukem IV: Return to Wolfenstein instead... I would probably still have it on my computer and play it at least often enough to take it with me every time I switch to a new machine.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
I'm pessimistic. The book -and possible the movie which I haven't seen yet- is more of a crime drama than an action movie. More about painting a world and setting an atmosphere. If anything, it would be a detective puzzle game. And with the mood being so important, I doubt that computer graphics would be evolved enough to do the game justice until halfway 2005. If done right, you would of course have a game that would eat Ubisoft's 'CSI-the game' and 'Law & order-the game' for breakfast. Still, I'm afraid that all we'd end up with would be a fairly playable game with mediocre graphics and a story halfway reminiscent of the book. They'd probably just leave out the part of the Jewish extermination for being not suited for the label rating and just make the story about looted artwork locked away jn Switzerland.

However if any programmer would be inspired by the world and create Duke Nukem IV: Return to Wolfenstein instead... I would probably still have it on my computer and play it at least often enough to take it with me every time I switch to a new machine.

I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream is the kind of game Fatherland would be; point and click adventure murder mystery that deals with the mature subject matter without sacrificing anything for the atmosphere.

Given how Fatherland doesn't actively take place in a Camp and is only about the conspiracy to cover up that the camps even existed, then it should be fine.
 
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