You know your the first person making a fan based game that has instead of defending against the rules, but decided to actually make the contact, which is impressive.
I agree. The usual mark of failure is continuing to defend your infringement. Regardless of the final outcome, you have impressed us (and others I'm sure) with your willingness to do things by the book.
And here is the bright side: if they do tell you to cease and desist, all you have to do is "tweak" the copyrighted material and you keep your game!
It's not a stargate, it's a "worldportal"; it's not carter, oneil and teal'c... it's smith, jones, and razmuse'n! Hell, you could even KEEP the names if you attempt to make the game into a parody of the series (you can use the "200" episode as a guide for how you could go about it). Teal'c would only be allowed to say "Indeed"... Carter can only speak in meaningless technobabble... O'neil, well, O'neil doesn't say much. If youc can pull the parady angle off, you can use all the copyrights and make your game (though commercialization is still out of the question)
You get my drift? You can keep 90% of the work you have done by simply coming up with an original background of your own. This is why making fan games NEVER made sense to me since it is much cooler to have your own ideas there. I guess the idea is that people will pay more attention to my with the SG label and that is true... but the SG people EARNED that attention and as future game designers, you don't want to be "leeches" and live off the hard work people have put into building the franchise up.
