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Asking for advice/help allowed?

A topic by Knight created Nov 06, 2021 Views: 195 Replies: 2
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I've been working mostly by myself so far, with some tutorials to help me figure out and learn more on specific things to do for my game.
Though I'm wondering whether it's acceptable to ask or get helps with some of my problems like on Reddit for example, though I'm concerned whether this would be disallowed or not as I can see how some people might choose to only get help without learning much or at least retaining the information/anwser to their problems. I.e; working without actually doing much and just leaving it to random strangers online, and I don't think I have to tell yous why this may be against the spirit of the jam.

However, if it's just from time to time, we're stuck on figuring out why this specific code doesn't work for hours and hours, or it's learning about something that isn't entirely clear on manuals/videos otherwise. Would the use of outside help on these cases be relatively okay so long as we make the effort to implement things in our own way?

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As someone, who participated in many jams before: yes, you can! Jams are about socializing and learning new stuff, so as long as the game will be made mostly by you and/or your team will be fine. 

That's great to hear, thanks!