Making A Fun Game

[Suraknar]

I remember KOEI's Romance of the Three Kingdoms haha.. (multiple versions actually) ;)

My journey basically Started by playing Games on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, then Commodore 128 and also Amstrad CPC 6128 using disks, before that it was tapes :)

I never got in to the consoles, albeit some of my friends played on ATARI and ColecoVision (and later Nintendo) systems then and played together in few occasions, I was more attracted by the Junior PC's and then moved to 286, 386, 486, Pentium and the rest to today haha, what a journey it has been, from 64k to 64 Gigs of memory and an exponential evolution of processing power.

Now...In reality it is equally possible that CA had nothing to do with KOEI's games...

The topic of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Records of the Three Kingdoms are part of History. Respectively the Romance is a play and compiled by Luo Ben or Guanzhong a 14th century writer, the Records are historical compilations by Chen Shou or Chengzuo a 3rd century historian.

Many people have been simply fans of the Books having read the Records or the Romance, and wanting to make a game or an anime or a movie on that is quite normal and does not need any other inspiration.

That said, the human brain is wired to recognize patterns and so it is very common for us, as players having played many games, often similar ones, to correlate perceived patterns. So it is very understandable to think that CA got inspiration from KOEI's game but it is equally possible that they did not.

Nevertheless, this is a good example to use in order to demonstrate the point about games and history. Many different companies have made games on the same topic, the Three Kingdoms, and that is not an issue, as each one brings to the table elements that are public and what is proper to each company is the presentation of it all according to the respective visions of their respective designers artists and developers.