I would like to create a story but am unsure about plagiarism regarding the game which is super heavily insipred by a novel. Specificaly if I can just mention the game name inside my story or do I need to change it's name to something different? Also do I need to change names of power systems I will take from the game? This will be kinda isekai by using game character.
depends are you trying to make money with this fanfiction? are you trying to pass their lore as your plot?
Perhaps if my motivation is high enough, not as some published book though, maybe like a patreon. I've read enough cultivation novels to create my own sort of lore, and already started on it briefly. Mainly because I didn't read majority of quest descriptions. So I will just adapt to fit my own view on levels/realms, ways of power like items, souls, godhood, immortality. More likely seen in game like terms from perspective of MC but as kind of normal and it's own thing from the isekai world view since he will introduce his various power ups. So for example at the top of the game you have for example, ascension to immortality, I will make it my own. Then you have ascension to godhood but only for body kind of. At peak of the game you unlock cosmos core which allows to use 'power of gods', so whatever the game throws is kinda vague enough to more like give me ideas, than simply copy it. Though I would like to at least keep the name of faction/class of the MC and how his power ups/equipment is named.
In essence MC that barely knows lore but has read novels, and has gameplay understanding but without using the game story at all aside from those items/power ups/his race kinda(I could just make him human since it's almost same, just buff guy)/and class name.
Plagiarism is when you take everything and publish it as yours, so if you take a common troppe and publish it then is not plagiarism. Having similar aspect one story from other or game doesn't make it plagiarism unless you literally write down the entire plot and even characters with different names
No characters from the game aside from MC game character and his pet I guess, and no game plot since I barely know it and don't need it in my story.
if you aren't using game plot, it should be fine class name, if they are the generic swordsman and such generic one wrod class that cannpot be copyrighted you are okay, if it class "shambala, technopriest of avaria chaos dimension" i would say avoid it. Same thing for locations if all else fail just resort to mispell names or give unwanted characteristic to character. there was once an author that avoided defamation lawsuits, by simply making their character based on real historical people (and quite obviously) all have small penis. Cause for those individuals to bring them to court, they need to prove that the story character was based on them and they would have to admit having a small cock Not a lawyer, definitly not one in your country and this should not be taken as legal advice
I guess I could change race from Athan to Human since Athan is just tall and muscular human, what about class though? It's called Balo, should I change it? Also I don't know if I should change skills/techniques and items/power systems my MC would've.
the only meaning that i found in english is a wiki desambiguation page that says it mean gamer ???? never heard it and 2 urban dicitonary mention for cool person and blowjob during a game of halo and i can't find any trademark on the word so it should be fine you can also go for a more descriptive of the class as for athan it is a greek word for immortal, so they can't have a copyright on that Not a lawyer, definitly not one in your country and this should not be taken as legal advice
Oh, that's nice. Could I put some names and we could see if they should be changed? Scion Gaian Lumen Star soul Soulstone Charm Covenant Cosmos Core Chroma Affinity Vitalization Vigor Felkin Dagos Fuwa Esper Skyblade Essence Cyntec
Spoiler: not at all Scion- Descendant of aristrocrat Gaian-Gaia related to greek goddess Gaia Lumen- Luminunesce Unit Star soul -common words Soulstone - common xianxia trope Charm - common word/stat Covenant - general word for a gathering Cosmos Core - -common words Chroma - greek for color Affinity - common word Vitalization -Common word Vigor- common word Essence - common word Skyblade - common word combination Esper - ESP, common fiction term Spoiler: possibly Felkin Dagos Fuwa Cyntec they appear to be common names people name or objects (fuwa is mascot for olympics in beinjing~)
Just saying but the word Sky is copyrighted, no joke. I mean the company made a lawsuit against Microsoft forcing them to change SkyDrive to OneDrive and then No man Sky but failed. Tho I doubt this will affect you I just wanted to share this curiosity