Actually you modify the application.  Source code is included  Since one would need to change both the language font and the words to include, I really don't want to mess with appvars.

EDIT:  I take that back for now.  I'll look into the possibility

My goal is to have this done in two weeks.  Here's what I have left to do.

1. Polish the last 10 levels
2. Program the boss
3. Comment my source code a lot more to make the game easy to modify (personally, I won't mind if people create new levels and/or improve the game)
4. Include instructions on how to customize the game for different languages
5. Make it possible to save games

You were both right!  I got permission because I'm not trying to make a profit.  Although now it's only the gruzzles that I'm copying, I had no problem simply altering the rest of my pixel work to create my own sprites.

Hello friends, is there anyone planning on purchasing HOTS who doesn't know whom to give guest passes to?  If the game comes with guest passes, I would love a guest pass, but only if you don't know who else to give one to    If and when it happens, please send me a PM with the code.

THANK YOU!

Edit:  I'll reply here if I don't need one so that you can offer it to someone else

Because Slova is supposed to be an educational game -- a fun one, but an educational one nonetheless -- I'm adding "shields" to the game.  You can hit gruzzles up to 4 times without dying in a level.

I love UNO!  This is great!

I volunteer at an orphanage, and the children wanted the chocolate balls with the little toys inside of them!  So I bought some for their Christmas gift.

This is for learning vocabulary from other 'spoken' languages, such as Spanish and French.  Sure, you don't learn grammer, but some people (like myself) have trouble remembering vocabulary.  Check out the first post

Btw, jus in case you didn't know, I'm just adding support for Japanese characters.  Someone else would need to create the font

Good news!  Japanese, Chinese, etc. characters will be 100% supported, including for bonus words.  However, if you want that many characters to be supported, you will need a 3rd application page (right now Slova uses 2 pages)

I've finished the drafts of all 30 levels, so now I need to work on polishing them.  Some of you may be pleased to know that level 29 will have a boss -- the buildup to Level 30 was so epic, I couldn't resist adding a boss!

New screenshot!  This is mostly bug fixes.  For debugging purposes I made it so I couldn't die

That's 14 levels done!  My goal for a release is 30.

Not at all

Third best thing is to modify the sprites in question--I just seem to have lost confidence that they might be okay.  At least copying the idea of a game is not copyright, so the "settings" of the graphics are at least safe.

For this topic, I want to know what's LEGAL, not what I can "get away with."

The game I'm creating, "Slova," which is based on Word Rescue, is going to be free, and I plan to credit the author of Word Rescue, 3D Realms.  Whatever the case, some of the sprites I created are based off of Word Rescue sprites, but I didn't rip them, just did some pixel art.  For other sprites I took sprites off a sprite sheet, turned them into black and white and pixel-edited them.  

Legally, am I breaking any copyright laws?

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