I've seen others posting screenshots of games here with copyrighted content such as Link (from Zelda IIRC), Pokemon, etc... Especially that modified spooky maze with a Pikachu lol. Just to confirm, but copyrighted content aren't allowed to be published right?

I believe can be in this only because they are not getting mony for it and it is still from Nintendo so they are not losing anything therefore I believe it's ok.

There's an agreement when you publish your game that says it cannot use copyrighted material, so no, unfortunately it is not okay.

swordx is right. Posting screenshots is one thing, but if Smileboom discovers you're trying to distribute something with someone else's IP, they'll take it down.

Yeah I know, I feel like me and only a couple other people in this community are actually working on something that *isn't* copyrighted! :P

so if i use a sprite from pokemon but change it alittle is it elliegil(i im not making pokemon at all but i im making a rpg )

@mystman I'm making my own original game, so you're definitely not alone. I feel like working on something copyrighted is boring and uncreative... Why try to recreate someone else's work when you can instead create something of your own with your own unique and interesting stories and worlds and lore to explore?

@komodo The Pokemon Company is very protective of their IPs. Your change might be legal - it might hold up in court - but ultimately SmileBOOM gets to decide what they host on their servers. I'm sure they would side with The Pokemon Company instead of you if there was ever a dispute.

@swordx I see porting your favorite games as an interesting exercise. It's also nice to have a portable version of one of your favorite games. I once asked QCF games if I could port Desktop Dungeons to PTC, and they were pretty cool about it.

@Ed You were the guy who ported Desktop Dungeons to PTC? I loved playing that. It was awesome and really impressive that you could do it.

@swordx Thanks! A lot of it was easy because the wiki community had laid out so much of the game mechanics. And I was driven on by the fact that, if I succeeded, I could play Desktop Dungeons wherever I wanted.

Thanks for the tips. OK, time to think of something original for my own created characters (one of them is unintentionally similar to the Story of Seasons characters lol)

So I can't, for example, create a RISK variant without the owner's permission.

Screenshots are fine but publishing a program with a copyrighted IP is when SmileBoom will take action. At least in Japan SmileBoom has confirmed that you'll be able to use sprites from Namco games to publish from.