Would an Arcane game be viable ?

[Scarlet Ashbringer]

It's been a while since I was thinking of making a LoL-based game. With Arcane being a smash hit, it could be a good opportunity to surf on its popularity and to propose an excellent game, since we are given a rich universe to explore with many references
With LoL lore, the game can quickly expand beyond what we see in Arcane and propose Piltover / Zaun characters and a new story, and I think I have a few good ideas to start it

HOWEVER
We're all waiting for Arcane Season 2. It's been a year since the first season, it can't be that far away. With how slow a game is produced, the second season will sweep whatever ideas or concept the game proposes, making it not only non-canon, but worse in comparison, given the excellent writing of Arcane
We'd need to take a leap of several years, making the Arcane base less interesting, and many key elements can still be changed in season 2. And that's only the season 2, there will be more to come, not even mentioning "Arcane is not canon"
This make extremely difficult to build a story-based game around Arcane licence, but it's not like we lack parody games ignoring half of their licence for the sake of entertainment on the website

So, here's the big question : Would it be viable ? Would it attract enough attention to hold its ground as Arcane will progress on a different path ? Will all its ideas be deemed obsolete when Season 2 is released ? What's your take ?

 

[arcaos]

Arcane has a lot of elements that make it questionable for a porn parody compared to standard LoL. In no particular order:
1. The first season is pretty short in total content to adapt and 35% of it involves the characters being children.
2. The show ships a significant portion of the characters so you now need to write your way out of them (presumably).
3. The show doesn’t have many of the popular R34 LoL characters and is pretty equal gender in cast, so unless you plan to make the bisexual dream game, a lot of players will complain about what wasn’t included.
4. Unless you have a very talented artist who can copy the shows “painted” aesthetic, the characters will end up looking like any LoL R34 production, which begs the question as to why you’d be so specific.

But don’t let pessimism stop your dreams! When I heard “animated show based on LoL,” I expected a flaming trash heap and I was proven wrong. I’m ready to be wrong here!

 

[Scarlet Ashbringer]

Arcane has a lot of elements that make it questionable for a porn parody compared to standard LoL. In no particular order:
1. The first season is pretty short in total content to adapt and 35% of it involves the characters being children.
2. The show ships a significant portion of the characters so you now need to write your way out of them (presumably).
3. The show doesn’t have many of the popular R34 LoL characters and is pretty equal gender in cast, so unless you plan to make the bisexual dream game, a lot of players will complain about what wasn’t included.
4. Unless you have a very talented artist who can copy the shows “painted” aesthetic, the characters will end up looking like any LoL R34 production, which begs the question as to why you’d be so specific.

But don’t let pessimism stop your dreams! When I heard “animated show based on LoL,” I expected a flaming trash heap and I was proven wrong. I’m ready to be wrong here!

I'd still like to adress these concerns to make sure I designed correctly around them
1. This doesn't really matter, the game would focus mostly on Caitlyn, Vi and Jinx.
2. In a surprisingly good surprise, the boys stay among boys, the girls amongs girl. Viktor and Jayce never met Jinx and aren't much concerned about Vi and Jinx's shenanigans. Heimerdinger is with Ekko. So it would be very possible to have a very low amount of male characters presents, keeping down the art's cost
3. That much is true, but Jinx is immensely popular, even before Arcane. Also I could easily add Seraphine (she's from Piltover) altho she can be quite polarizing. No Kata or Ahri tho
4. Welp that much is true. But the reason to be specific is for the story, not the aesthetic. try writing something on Freljord : You can't, we're drowned in lore from that region but we don't know shit about what's going on there lol. Arcane give a solide base. Chem baron, fight for power, Jinx chase, etc.

And thanks for your encouraments ^^

 

[Deleted member 440241]

The first season is pretty short in total content to adapt and 35% of it involves the characters being children.

That's not an issue if you make it a LoLi game.

 

[JeremyRenner]

Now that season 2 is coming and if I'm not mistaken I think it's gonna be a conclusion for the piltover part of the story, so do you think this game would be more of a possibility?? Cause I would love a game in this world, Jinx is my fav girl so it would be awesome if this existed

 

[Scarlet Ashbringer]

Now that season 2 is coming and if I'm not mistaken I think it's gonna be a conclusion for the piltover part of the story, so do you think this game would be more of a possibility?? Cause I would love a game in this world, Jinx is my fav girl so it would be awesome if this existed

Well Season 2 is, supposedly, the "last season" (before they do other regions I assume). So that means that whatever I write cannot be erased by the new "official" canon. So the game is way more likely yes.
But I am still busy with my original game, Scarlet Ashbringer (a WoW parody) and I'm not gonna try to dev two games at once alone. So it will takes some time.

But I already have some ideas. One of them is Jinx will met Seraphine. Not the famous idol from LoL, no, the young artist who wants to become one. She'll help her a lot, give her her floating platform that she, erm, Fireflies riders that no longer needed their hoverboard, etc. but as Seraphine grows more and more popular, Jinx gets from supportive to devoured by jealousy, ending up crashing Seraphine's concert.
It's just an idea for now, but we saw how Jinx jinxed her family, now we want to see how she'll act to friends. This whole theme may be covered by Season 2 of Arcane, rendering my idea obsolete. We don't know.

In the meantime, please appreciate the one and only artwork I got created for the project : The Enforcer

 

[JeremyRenner]

That's a really cool idea!! I guess we'll have to wait and see but love the artwork, I'll check out your WoW game too!!