Planning on writing a book inspired by pic related, any advice on how to make it not seem like a obvious ripoff?

Planning on writing a book inspired by pic related, any advice on how to make it not seem like a obvious ripoff?

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I'm planning on doing the same. Had an idea for a Courier which I'm going to turn into the main character and basis for my own retarded novel. I'm going to change the setting for the most part; large desert and post-war society, but much more stable and without radiation. No mutants either.
I dunno; you'll have to change the lore and come up with your own backstory for the setting. From there on you'll be able to figure it out.

yeah very easy.

Step 1: Don't do it.

Ok, gotcha. Honestly the only real similarities between my book and NV is that both take place in a post-apocalyptic world, but other than that it’s quite different concerning the lore and background, as well as the main characters.

In that case you shouldn't worry. I recommend you ponder on which kind of fragmented society you wish to construct. How long as it been since the collapse? What kind of events led to the end of the world? You'll need to craft different societies that sprung from that apocalypse. Are the cities still standing or have they been vaporized? Does it take place in our world or in another you created? How much history have you added?
These are all fundamental questions that need answering before you even start writing. I'm a sucker for these sort of stories, so if you want to talk about your ideas feel free to do so.

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To the Yea Forums board for reading rode a retard one fine day
He left shitty threads around him, he had nothing good to say
No one asked to hear his idea, and his book just won't be read
The newfag there among them made a fucken shitty thread (fucken shitty thread)

Good God. That game had a shitty story and shitty characters.

I can't think of a lower tier form of human than they people here who post about this game discussing the story.

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That station was great and so was that song

I already did the same with a comic; people WILL be able to tell

good luck though

Use similar themes and guiding principles for character developmemt, humor, tongue in cheek historical nostalgia, etc. Change the setting entirely. If you can't find some idea of how to do these things you're not prepared yet and keep studying them.

Is this what that gay fatass was warning me about with all his "simulacrum simulacra" babble?

Todd?

May I ask what made your comic so similar to NV?
The only real “idea” I was inspired by is the different groups of societies that arise after the fall of humanity. If anything, I’m more inspired by The Lord of the Rings’ world building and the general feeling of being lost in a new world. That’s the tone I want to convey with my story.

Lol

Don't inspire yourself solely in the game. Read other post-apocalyptic novels. There's plenty of those in 60s~80s scifi.

Give an overview of your plot

A coming of age novel about 3 boys growing up in a post apocalyptic world. As the story goes on the world around them begins to heal and societies begin to arise, and the boys friendships are put to test as their different views and ideologies on the world turn them against each other.

Do they fuck?

If you want.
In all seriousness though, how does it sound?

Disregard people pretending to be me.
Anyway, where is this set?
I assume somewhere in the united states, but where exactly. What's going on in the world that polarizes the friends and makes their ideologies relevant?

You simply have to extract the gist of the game/story/world/whatever instead of just taking elements and creating an patchwork of unrelated, insignificant-due-to-out-of-context entities not harmonic to each other.
E.g. does the world building depend upon having been nuked, or just upon instability and inhospility? Has House to be a computer zombie or is he in his core just a gloomy, all-knowing, undying big-brother?, Is Caesar's Legion a bunch of Rome LARPers or are they at their core an authoritarian technophobes with a survival of the strongest/might makes right mentality?

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The story is still in the early drafts, but from what I’ve written so far I want the story to span across the east coast of the United States, so this way I can explore various societies and tribes that have arisen since the bombs fell. The starting state would most likely be a post war Virginia, as I grew up in this state and it’s proximity to Washington DC is very convenient for storytelling purposes.
As for what’s going on in the world, I want to write various factions seizing control over something of power (such as Washington DC, which I plan on making a postwar haven of technology and progress that only the prewar government has access to). Perhaps these different tribes and factions arise to harness the technological wonders of DC? I plan on these factions to appeal to each boys lifestyle and background, but as I’ve said, It’s all in the very early development phase.

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The only people who would accuse you of ripping off fallout have are people with for whom fallout is the only known reference point for post apocalyptic fiction.

I'm also working on something in a shattered post apocalyptic US.

Read the boy and his dog short story by Harlan Ellison which the fallout games were inspired by and learn from it.

Play some other games and read other books with a similar theme, then you'll naturally make something interesting and new (p.s. doesn't work if you're stupid).
Media to try:
The Metro games and Books
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
The Last of Us
Borderlands
I am legend
A Boy and His Dog
Mad Max
Six String Samurai

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detach it as much as you can from the setting, trying to really place it in a fallout-esque setting will make it super obvious where you got your "inspiration" from and you'll just look like an opportunistic nerd who writes quasi-fanfiction. Remove the setting, see where you go and let it develop on its own, don't try to "capture the vibe" of the franchise.

So basically "The Postman"?

>The only real “idea” I was inspired by is the different groups of societies that arise after the fall of humanity. If anything, I’m more inspired by The Lord of the Rings’ world building and the general feeling of being lost in a new world. That’s the tone I want to convey with my story

That's good, but then why did you open by saying it would be like New Vegas?