SONIC UNREAL but, I need some help!

[Achilleon]

@hahasamian;531099

Zac: Sorry I took so long to reply. Please press the “reply” button next time.
I understand. I’ve decided to take a similar approach in my Star Fox 3 idea (A fan-game based on an unreleased game! HAHA!), modeling everything from scratch (note no capital letters. LOL). This started probably because I wouldn’t be able to get models from Star Fox 2 or 1. But now it looks like the whole game will be this way, Arwings, enemy fighters, and all that. Not to mention character models and, for the first time, I believe, complete cockpits and character shots (In contrast to the normal pre-rendered cockpits! This will also allow for other ideas to go well, like taking a cinematic shot inside the Arwing cockpit)!
Would distribution of sprites online (like someone using a sprite sheet taken from TSR and ripping it to Scratch) also be illegal? What’s the line where something becomes illegal? I would like to at least use sprites from Sonic on Scratch fan-games.

Anything that involves ripping is illegal. There is no way out of this. Those games do not share their models or sprites for free, people reverse engineer to get those stuff to their original non-cooked self and share around. That is illegal. As many people tried to warn you, some companies do not care about how awesome your game is. They don’t like it when you use it. Hasbro is another example. Good luck doing ANYTHING with their MyLittlePonies.

@Dodgin;531265

Hedgehogs cannot be copyrighted. Hedgehogs that run in loops (they actually copyrighted this) and collect rings can be though. I’d make a game with a Running platypus, personally. Can you imagine? A fast platypus!

The way hedhehog look might be suspicious though. An almost-sonic looking hedhehog is still dangerous. On the other hand, platypuses can’t be copyrighted due to being too awesome, go for it!