I have a little knowledge of the Unity & Unreal Engine and would have to bring Intresse Splatoon to the PC. (No filerip, programmed by 0)
Of course I want to bring the finished game to the Steam store for 10 euro or so.
Now the question is: Can I even make a shooter like Splatoon with squid children that swim through ink or is the whole design protected by Nintendo?
If it should be protected, is it enough to replace the ink children with something else? But then what's the question…
As long as it's far enough from the original and you don't call it Splatoon, I don't see any problems here.
What does far enough mean?
Simply making your own maps and music is enough or I have to replace the Squiddys with my own designs, I want to know whether the Squid Kids are protected.
If the similarity is too great, there will certainly be problems with Nintendo, whether it is enough that you build a game where you can fight for colors in an arena with colors I do not know and in the end is only decided by the lawyers, do not forget smartphone manufacturers can have patented such round corners and the direction of stroke to unlock.
You should search the internet to find out what Nintendo has copyrighted at Splatoon. Music and the name are probably protected. What else they have protected I can't tell you, because I do not know.
Everything you see in the game is protected.
Nope you can't protect game mechanics or something.
You should avoid squid and ink, otherwise nintendo will not like it. But if you take people and color, for example, you will probably get away with it.
Unfortunately I find nothing at all about the ep
The ink works alone, but I would not take the combination of ink and squid that fight.
The problem is what characters can you use that it still looks reasonably reasonable.
Well, you have to think about it. Nintendo has also considered something.
Jo my creative buddy should do that, he can do it better.
You don't usually see game mechanics either
Most of the time, but in the case of Splatoon you see them ^^
Uh no. Look at the meaning of game mechanics.
You will not be allowed to use the Squid Kids in the form as they appear in Splatoon and you will probably not be allowed to name them that way. Accordingly, this must be alienated. If you are accused of anything, the judiciary will probably decide. The game principle itself already existed if I understood it correctly (Qix, deBlob, Tony Hawk). Never played Splatoon, so I only know it superficially.
