[Ellipsis753]

I love this idea and it's really awesome but I was a little sad to see that I didn't really care about any of the assets.

If you could get Mario/Tetris rom/sprites uncopyrighted then that would be truly awesome. Things which no longer make a profit but sadly still cannot legally be used for fan works etc.

Of course I know that getting big names on board would be very difficult but just my thoughts on the matter.

edit: OK, I've been down-voted a couple of times for this. I'd be interested to know why. I'm maybe not being supportive enough of something just starting out?

Personally although I think it's an awesome idea I will not be donating as I don't know any of the names or particularly want to donate money to these artists. Much better art is already in public domain without the artists wanting money to release it (much like open-source software).

[rrouse]

Actually, Nintendo does still sell copies of the original Mario (and other Mario stuff obviously), so I think you were downvoted for suggesting that big names would even consider something like this. It's not realistic.

[jlgaddis]

I've never heard of any of the "assets" before now either. I want to encourage others to copy this idea, though, so I contributed $25 anyway.