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« on: February 25, 2020, 02:25:00 PM »
Of course we'll have to remove the Zelda games if Nintendo ask us to do so. I hope they believe our fan-games are just fair use, for fun.
Solarus is a game engine, just like Unreal or Unity. If someone makes a Zelda game with Unity, Nintendo cannot take down Unity. Solarus will continue to exist and improve, but the games would have to be removed and reworked with 100% custom sprites, tilesets and musics, before they can reappear. We would obviously archive them, if we have to remove them from the website.
There is a misconception about Nintendo being very aggressive on fanwork. Globally, they're nice and let fans play with their IPs (just see the massive amount of fan art that is made, and sometimes even sold without giving Nintendoo any money!). What they seem to not like is people remaking their games: they've taken down Mario 64 Online, Metroid 2 remake so far, and it was because they were completed, full games, in competition with their own games (respectively Mario Odyssey and Metroid 2 on 3DS). If we follow this logic, the only game that could be removed is the upcoming Link's Awakening remake with Solarus. Lots of projects are just stopped because the author gets bored and stops working on the project (making a game takes several years), not because he lost a battle in court or because the cops went down to his house to burn the hard drive!