Hi everybody,
the topic continues here …
Franck
Hi
It’s illegal, you use some copyrighted materials without the prior consent of the copyright owners. Please replace those sprites by some others that you are allowed to use. The lack of graphical knowledge isn’t an excuse to violate the laws. You can find some decent sprites under free licenses on OpenGameArt.org for example.
Edit.: By the way, it doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate your technical success in the creation of a 2D platformer.
Hi,
i took all the sprites on www.spriters-resource.com
I just read the faq, and it’s written
“These resources are collected for personal projects and non-commercial work.”
I used it only for my personal project, which is learn libgdx and 2D plateformer game basis.
Are you sure i can’t use it ?
He’ll be fine, calm down. He’s not selling the game.
It has nothing to do with selling the game or not. I remind you that a 3D computer artist had (mistakenly?) suggested me to add a model of alien into my game which is free of charge in 2010. I didn’t know that this model was copyrighted. Sega asked me to remove it several weeks later.
You shouldn’t take at face value a vague claim on the website spriters-resource.com.
Those sprites created by several Nintendo employees including Shigeru Miyamoto for the Mario and other related franchises are copyrighted artworks of Nintendo and its associates. If you use part of a copyrighted work under “fair use” or if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). You’re French, aren’t you? There is no fair use for us (in France), there are a few exceptions in the Intellectual Property code but they can’t be applied for images in general, only for short samples of text.
Moreover, several Mario clones already had to do what I suggested (i.e replace the copyrighted contents by other legal contents).
P.S: You can replace the sprites of Super Mario by those of Secret Maryo Chronicles or Secret Chronicles (under SMC Contribution license unless otherwise specified). Maybe this can help.
I dont understand why it would be illegal for him to use these sprites in a non comercial context?
Lots of people post pictures of copyright material all over the internet. Like if you go on youtube, and search “mario”, you can find lots of mario images being distributed without Nintendo’s permission.
I wouldnt change the sprites unless Nintendo asks you to.
You can be happy if people just “ask” you to stop violating their copyright…
To throw in some content-related comment: nice game 
What approach did you use for your entities? The OOP-inheritance or the entity component system (ECS) based way?
Hi Shatterhand, thanx for your reply
I used OOP-inheritance approach for entities
but to be honnest i don’t know what is ECS, i just saw that it’s a pattern, i’ll have a look at it when i’ll have a little more time :), maybe you could just explain me in few lines the concept, and benefits towars OOP ?
Thanx a lot and have a good week end !
PS: gouessej, my project is just a kind of tech demo, I just wanted to discover Libgdx, I never thought that i would violate laws or something like this 
I had a good time playing this game
Really good clone!
I cheated on 1-2
Is there a button to throw fireballs?
Edit :
Why is the link suppressed ‘temporaly’ :(?
I didn’t claim that you intentionally violated the law but TheMeatMan’s arguments are plain wrong. Some uses are covered by the “fair use”, some others aren’t. If you infringe both Nintendo’s trademarks and Nintendo’s copyrights in a game (illegal in all countries that signed the Bern Convention but each country has its own “exceptions”), expect a worse reaction than if you simply use some copyrighted contents to inform other people (which is legal in France in certain circumstances, see the article L. 122-5 of the Intellectual Property Code). I’m fed up with the principle according to which you should just go on as long as you haven’t got caught. Why not simply replacing the copyrighted sprites by sprites under a more permissive license so that you won’t have any problem on the long term and you won’t encourage other developers to violate the copyrights? You can find here an example of Nintendo’s reaction on copyright and trademark violation in French.
Frank, I won’t derail your thread any longer. If some people wants to contest my claims, please create a separate thread.
Hi TheMeatMan, thanx a lot for your reply !!!
you can throw fireballs using same key than acceleration key (A)
Don’t leave the forum, I really like your game!
Nintendo isn’t going to come after you. Look at www.mfgg.net it’s the largest mario fan-gaming website around. Think they’re creating original art for each of their games? No. Get that stick out of your butt goussej! :point:
Sure it’s illegal. No one should argue against that. The question is, does anyone care?
Literally everyone and their mother starts out by making fangames. This is a great project, and I hope you continue it!
I care. In my humble opinion, we shouldn’t encourage the developers to violate copyrights and authors’ rights in general and it’s totally possible to make fan games with derivated artworks (which is what I suggested to franck06) instead of infringing copyrights. Would you be very happy if someone violated the terms of a license protecting your source codes or your artworks? Don’t do to others what you wouldn’t like them to do to you. Please don’t derail his thread. If you want to question my arguments, do it here instead.
Hello where’s the source code? thank you
I’m working with a graphist now, I proposed him to integrate his custom mario sprites in my game, so the game is not dead and will be back soon