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Hello! Thank you for hosting this wonderful contest; I'm so excited to see the new entries this year! 

I had a few questions regarding the contest rules! 

  • If we had a project that we had started beforehand, never finished, and would like to use the same ideas for this contest, would we be able to if we re-made everything from scratch? (Ex. - Have a few sprites that were made before the jam, but we make new sprites + don't use the old ones?) (Or would this fall under acceptable use as 'custom made assets'?)
  • For the "Entrants are discouraged from sharing their final game until the rating/judging period begins", is that moreso the final game (with the download)? But screenshots and such are acceptable to show/post on social media?

Thank you!

Hey there and thank you for joining!

1. Rule #1 states "Development on contest entries MUST be started after the beginning of the contest (June 21st, 2021)." That means that you cannot have worked on it at all. So no, you cannot remake a game you've already started, because something that was already made (story, character information, even formulas or hand-drawn maps...) would already exist.

2. Dev streams and Dev blogs are fine, no worries. We only mean the actual, playable game.

Hello! Thank you so much for clarifying! I understand better now!

Development on contest entries MUST be started after the beginning of the contest (June 21st, 2021). Pre-existing assets (like DLC or custom created) can be used.

It says pre-existing assets can be used, so how does that work?