Using community sprites in hobby game

[raycrasher]

I already PMed Kaelis for permission to use his sprites for use in a BSF-inspired game, but as I understand it he's gone. Therefore I'm asking the community - Can I use the community sprites? Due credit will be given, of course, and the game will be released open source once it is playable. I have my sights on Kaelis' sprites and Horsemonster's weapons, and would very much love to use them.

The game's a BSF clone in the sense that you can find BSF gameplay elements in it, but the visual style will be different, the game has big RPG and 4X elements, and it has multiplayer.

Thank you for BSF.

[Kiltric]

As long as credit is given, I don't think any of the sprite artists would mind much, but that's really up to them.

The game itself though, it sounds as if it may be infringing on BSF a tad.

[Anna]

It's not as if "piecing a ship together from other bits" is an original concept. This sounds plenty different from BSF, so it doesn't sound like it's infringing at all.

[Arcalane]

Hardly infringing, aye. BSF is not original itself, being inspired by Warning Forever. Plus there's fraxy, which I think predates BSF a little and is again fairly similar to Warning Forever in some respects.

[Kiltric]

Eh, I just figured caution first, but it's not like Sean's really around to complain anyway.

[Serithi]

I thought WF was inspired by BSF, not the other way around?

[Arcalane]

Hell no. BSF's original simplified/abstracted artstyle is because it's based off Warning Forever's.

Straight from the Games page on the main Wyrdysm site;

Battleships Forever is inspired by and loosely based on Warning Forever by Hikoza.T.Ohkubo

[Serithi]

Well, the more you know.

[raycrasher]

Thank you so much. I will use them well. I have some screenies, very early development, please ignore the crappy ships, I'm just testing out the visual style.

Spoiler!

[Robert Joe]

I do hate to barge in here. However, I was going to make a very similar thread, and I thought that it would be better if I posted here instead of creating a new topic. This thread is only a few days old, that does not count as necroing, right?

Anyway, in case you did not know, I am one of the people from the Shellcore Command forum, and I am making a Shellcore Command fangame. I was wondering if it would be okay if Nagaya (From the Battleships Forever campaign) made a cameo as an unlockable character in the said game. Full credit to will be given to Th15 and there will be a link to the Battleships Forever website on the main menu.

[Anna]

Anyway, in case you did not know, I am one of the people from the Shellcore Command forum, and I am making a Shellcore Command fangame. I was wondering if it would be okay if Nagaya (From the Battleships Forever campaign) made a cameo as an unlockable character in the said game. Full credit to will be given to Th15 and there will be a link to the Battleships Forever website on the main menu.

You'd probably be better off asking th15 about that. Send him a pm or something. Still, I don't think he'd object too much.

Also copper is fantastic.