(I'm still open for Ukraine Charity Commissions)

We all have properties we love. Many of us also love video games. With both of these, we channel our love for the property by creating a fan video game based on it. If the property was already a game, the fan game could act as an expansion to it, or a way to improve where the original game was flawed. If the property wasn’t a game, you could still produce amazing games with them.

Sadly, due to harsh licensing laws, most of these fan projects are considered “illegal” and many of them were forcefully shutdown. While some have managed to survive, Fan games are generally too much of a risk to put effort into, due to the cease and desist brutes who cause all that work to be wasted.

This is when many of these fan works are instead adapted into original properties devised by the creators of the fan game. Many successful games have been created this way and is a good way to make something of all the hard work the creator put into the fan game.

However, if this is the case, then why do I not feel any love for my original properties?

I’ve mentioned a tabletop Gundam/ Other Mecha RPG I made for myself (never going to be posted, don’t get your knickers in a twist License Holders) and while I have made my own Mecha designs as well, enough for an original game, I just don’t care about them as much. The reason I made that RPG in the first place was so I could play with a dream team of mecha from several different series that no official game could replicate. I can’t get that with an original ip.

Are there actual fan game creators who feel the same way? I’m pretty sure there is. If only Fan games were more acceptable with no risk of lawsuits and such. If only there were ways to make me feel the same love for my own mecha designs as I feel for the big name ones.