Hi, I had a small question about the jam rules. So I understand that assets must be either your own work, or you must have a license to use them - this is no problem for me. I wanted to ask if this extends to names and character designs too. Plenty of Vinesauce memes - one being Scoot, to give a clear example - are copyrighted in some way; are we allowed to include these? Also, are we allowed to use voice clips from Vinesauce himself, or do those also fall under copyright? Thanks in advance, I just want to make sure what I'm planning out is safe to go with.

I'd say voice clips from stream are regarded as public domain or fair use in this case, so there's no issue there.

In-terms of things like characters, designs and names, those are more abstract concepts than actual game-used assets like models and sprites, meaning they're considered beyond the scope of the rule and are allowed. Basically, if you make a Scoot, you can add a Scoot.

The asset rules will probably be made less strict if we do another one of these jams, just keeping things a little restrictive for now to make things easier on the mod/judge team while they get used to the whole game jam thing.