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How much editing of assets is allowed?

A topic by melon created Jul 16, 2023 Views: 540 Replies: 8
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Submitted

Say if I were to make additional animation frames for a 2D character with existing animations e.g. to add an attack animation, would that be against the rules? I would be basing the new frames on the existing sprites.

Submitted(+3)

The description of the jam says editing and remixing assets is allowed, so I would imagine that as long as the original design and style is kept, that adding animation frames is fine.

Submitted

Looks like it isn’t the case from the FAQ. Guess I’ll have to make a version with and without custom sprites and save the custom for after the jam.

Submitted (4 edits)

Not to sound annoying, but it’s extremely subtle edits such as this. Just the face shifted one pixel right. I won’t use this if I don’t get a response, but if you see this Kenney, is this kind of edit also not allowed?

Submitted

From the FAQ:

  • You can edit (i.e. crop or change the color) and combine them (i.e. using one sprite in a different sprite)

So If you maybe made that by just reusing other parts of sprites it should be fine, right?

Submitted

I feel it’s a slippery slope if you allow compositing new sprites with parts of sprites, because you then in theory could make any sprite (is a single pixel a part of a sprite? lmao). I’ll respect the rules and wait until after the jam with the additional edits.

(though I’m just a little salty the “equivalent” is allowed in 3D lmao)

Host

No, you can't edit the sprites. The challenge of the jam is to use the assets as-is, if you're editing them or just drawing new ones you're not adhering to the challenge unfortunately.

Submitted (1 edit)

Sorry, i am a bit confused since recoloring is allowed, but you say as is now, do you mean recolor in the game engine sort of at run time, or can we still edit in a paint tool to change the colors?

Host(+1)

Please see: https://itch.io/jam/kenney-jam-2023/topic/3012986/game-asset-usage-faq