Any Budget info? Making a game like this, how does it support the career of an ongoing Pixelartist aside from him recieving a small amount of money.
Working on a copyright infringement troubled fan-game may not really be the right decision. If someone's doing it for fun with the risk of having the whole game shut down and being sued while losing money and having the work from the pixelartist go to waste, then thats fine!
I appeal to creativity, make it a game that uses no copyrighted intellectual material and then it will be fine!
(I am writing this because you wrote me an E-mail not long ago, me being not responsive was because I don't work on such fan-based games anymore that use intellectual property, except you have permission from the respective owner)