[jonbalza]

Originally Posted by FenixRoA

If you would however like to donate, I appreciate any time and effort you put towards this project but I kindly request that you leave everything relating to laws, programming, etc. to me.

Thanks but no thanks, I don't really feel like donating to your cause right now.

Originally Posted by FenixRoA

IF I find interest high enough I will sell it, and Hasbro can say as much to me as the author of Tetris can say to the 3D Tetris ppl.

Let me reiterate what I said: "You WILL NOT be able to sell this game." Not unless you pay some serious cash over to Hasbro.

Not that you can't make it... go ahead and make it and throw it in your portfolio as a fun addition, but I'm fairly sure that not only does Hasbro own a copyright on the map (including layout of the countries, not just the design) but also one on the name "Risk". Also probably a patent on the method of playing the game, and several other methods to protect their intellectual property.

Speaking of intellectual property, if we don't sign a contract and I give you this map that I might make, I could be held liable because the map would still be MY COPYRIGHT, as it is my work. That means if you give it to a couple of your friends to play, who then pass it around to their friends, who sends it to Uncle Jim in Wichita, KA, who happens to work for Hasbro, USA... I could get sued for copyright infringement. Besides all of that, just because it isn't written doesn't mean a contract isn't implied by all this communication here on the board.

As to the "3d Tetris" people... They probably paid through the nose to use that name in their game.