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Menu is good enough for now, at least as a place holder. Seems like a little details and it'd be rad.
There are more important things to work on now though~
e: Also, posted in your legal advice thread:
Read it.
There are more important things to work on now though~
e: Also, posted in your legal advice thread:
Heran Bago said:Nintendo actually doesn't own the copyright to "Mario." It's too generic of a name.
This is a fangame, so using most of that stuff is all pretty fine. You wouldn't be the first person to make, or even complete a Mario fangame. If Nintendo wrote you a C&D, you'd be the first person to get one! So you'll get some attention either way.
Nintendo wouldn't jump from no action to legal charges, their PR isn't that bad. The next step is C&D letters, which they haven't even started with.
In procedural law, you could even try to slap them with "fair use" since it's just a(nother) fan game and they sent no C&D, like damn. Not to underestimate Nintendo's legal team, but they're more about words than action.
As for good developer practice though, the bigger the game gets and the more it progresses, it should be less and less stuff "borrowed" from Nintendo and more your original work. Just sayin' is all, if you're going to make NSMB2, don't just make NSMB1.