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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runesong42" data-source="post: 2403748" data-attributes="member: 10578">Hey all,So I started a campaign about 2 years ago.  It was a solo campaign, just me and a friend.  Very RP intensive, and the setting was pretty much a build-as-we-go scenario.  The friend and I had a falling out, and we parted ways for about a year.  During that year, I had thought up more to add to the campaign as a whole, hoping that one day we would hang out again and we'd pick up where we left off.  I had dreams of publishing my work as a novel, or perhaps a cartoon, or a comic strip, or even submitting a script to a video game company, and so the campaign created itself in my head.  Sure enough, the friend and I reunited, and I began preparing my work.  Soon, once we began play and finished what we started, I could start work on finalizing it into some kind of published work.Then, I bought a video game.I began playing and was very pleased with it.  It had anime style, combined with a great music, colorful imagery, and a plot that was pretty solid.And then I started noticing things.  Like the plot's focus was very similar to what I had in mind for my adventure.  Like the fact that the same races I use in my game were present, and were working towards the same goals as in my campaign.  Like elements used to create the setting of the game were the same elements I was using to create mine.  Heck, even the cast of characters bore a strong resemblance to my own.In short, I feel like someone put out my game before I did.  Now, I feel as though if I went though the effort, it would be wasted, as someone already has a very similar product to my own.Now, to be fair, the same elements have been used in other video games before, but it just so happens that the combination of elements in *this* video game happen to coincide with(and in many cases, duplicate) the elements I planned on using for my campaign.I guess it shoudn't discourage me, but it really irks me all the same.Has anyone else had this happen to them?</blockquote>

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