so... what your saying is that to make fanfiction based on their projects that is requiring permission. Which is of course a nice thing to do. But you have the word inspiration confused with fanfiction. are we allowed to actually just be inspired by the cover art and not actually make a fan project based on it? Because though i like the idea of making fan projects based on someone's IP with permission, I would rather just be inspired and make my own thing. Kind of how Pokemon is inspired by digimon. Not at all the same thing but sharing similar ideas.
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I did not confuse inspiration and fanfiction. You need to ask for permission either way because you will always take elements from the case.
We are aware that this isn’t how copyright or fair use or any of these systems work instead it’s how this game jam is run. We respect the famicase artists and if you want to participate you should too.
You can take any cart and run with it how far you want to go but still ask in the beginning if the creator is okay with it.
As I said in the post most of the artist love the idea and are happy to help with your game. It isn’t a chore to be respectful instead it can be quiet fun to exchange ideas or asking for their inspiration on the cart. Also I never had someone say no. But a lot of them I could credit on the games itch pages for helping me.
So please just ask! It isn’t hard, nobody tries to eat you. Instead you can connect a little bit with some really cool people.
No you can anything and don’t have to collaborate with the artist.
You just HAVE TO ask if you can make anything inspired by it.
You can absolutely twist the ideas of the original idea of the famicase, you can have your own artstyle, different setting or original game mechanic.
But you will probably take some elements like the game idea or I often took a very similar artstyle so it’s polite to ask if you can use it.
I get what where their coming from. I just misunderstood the exact nature of this jam myself. But its still a neat idea. However, I also do not use twitter, like at all. So email would be my only option, and that may prove... challenging for privacy reasons. But I'll keep an eye on this jam, if not to join, to at least see what people make.
Though I kind of wish the art here had prior permission from the artists to be used this way by all participants, it... well that only seemed logical to me. That may be a thing that happens in other jams later though.