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by galenko 3932 days ago
This is awesome, but as others have said, the Blizzard legal team will come knocking on your door very soon. If I were you and if you're serious about continuing working on this, I would take this down immediately, get in touch with their legal team and see if you can work something out with them to get their blessing on this.

They're not evil, it's their job to protect copyrighted assets, without them Blizzard would be out of pocket and SC2 might not have been created, from my experience, there are some really friendly people there, but you have to get on their good side and I'd say you've already gone about this the wrong way (by githubbing their copyrighted stuff).

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Pretty sure contacting Blizzard legal team would be dumbest thing ever because you'll never get an answer or just get youself in trouble. Best solution is to remove current repository (or make it private) and then create new repo without copyrighted stuff.
That, or remove said assets and scrub the history.. as another thread mentions there are sites with open game assets that can be used... or simple sketch patterns and generated voice assets can be used in the interim until better assets can be released.
I made this game because i love Blizzard and their game, i'll be very sad if they accuse me, now i'm not feeling good...
This is great work and you should feel good about it.

I've never seen Blizzard pursue a massive lawsuit on an individual without giving them a chance / warning first to take things down.

I guess it won't be hard to partner with an indie game artist, replace the sprites and title and turn it into an original game.