I honestly don’t see why anyone here is concerned with “leagal issues” people make Sonic and Mario fan games all the time, and I can guarantee that they never even bothered to ask permission from Sega nor Nintendo. The point is if people don’t make such a big deal about the fan game then there is nothing to worry about when creating one. Its not like Epic searches the web daily to find out if someone is making a fan game based off of there own games. And even if Epic does happen to find the fan game all they’ll do is ask you to remove it or just erase it themselves. No one will ever grant permission to make a fan game, but that doesn’t stop people from making them. When I created a sonic-pacman fan game, I simply stated at the beginning that “Sonic and all related characters are restricted trademarks of Sega” or whatever legal statement needs to be said. You can look at most fan games based of sonic and they’ll say something like that. Epic doesn’t really care what people do with Jazz for crying out loud Jazz isn’t even listed on there homepage anymore its all Unreal Unreal Unreal and more Unreal , I bet people out there have already created Fan games of Jazz. I can guarantee Epic could care less if people are doing it, but legally they cant tell you “oh its okay go ahead and make a game based off our characters”, they have to defend there copyrights or they lose them.

-Ultramecha