Hello All. I am writing a little Formula 1 racing game. Its going to be really simple, for the moment, but hopefully gain in complexity as the versions increase. I was just wondering what ye thought about the names. Obiviously I am just an amiture, home games programmer, and cant afford to give Bernie the money he requires for the lisence to use the names and teams from the sport. Do you think that it is better to have the names almost right but with a tiny change Micky Shumicher who drives for Fereri and Mica Heckinin who drives for MacLuren or would it be better to have totally made up names and teams. There are pros and cons with both. The 1st options has simalarities with reality, and people would be able to associate the game characters with the real people, however the changes in the names seems a bit corney and lame and cheap. The 2nd option is totally original with the names, but offers no connection with the real world, therefore may not be as involving for the character. Any ideas? Giant "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I''m not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein

Create your own names ^_^

-Maarten Leeuwrik
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Dave Mark
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Make your own names up but leave them in a handy file that people an change. If it matters to them they''ll "fix it". It''s a feature...

Hi. Thanks for your opioions. I am going to take all of ye into account.

I am going to create my own names, that are similar and funny compared to the others, and give the user the option to change the names, and team names and colours. Therefore they have the choice to make the game as realistic as the choose.

Thanks again. I would not have thought of that on my own.

Giant

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I''m not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein