Use in a certain contest..?
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 14:52
Hai, I'm new here - well, in the sense that I just registered my account despite lurking around for awhile beyond today.
I've always been interested in using the LPC assets, whether for random game-making fun or as placeholders.
Today I found myself looking at them again, and I thought about a contest coming up, and how my boyfriend won't have any time for graphics, etc.
The Indie Game Maker Contest 2015 is starting July 7th, 2015, and no matter how many times I read the lisences given by the artists for the LPC assets, I'm am unsure of one thing: Is it possible to use these tiles for a game being made for the contest linked in this paragraph?
There is a cash prize, but like most contests, no one knows if they will win.
Thanks for any replies!
You definitely can use them. Most LPC assets come under CC-BY-SA license. It means, you can use them if you credit the authors and if you publish all the graphics based on these assets under the same license (for example, if you redraw a part of some graphics, you'll need to allow other to use your redrawn version under the same license, CC-BY-SA).
It looks perfectly kosher to me. Nothing in the contest rules would exclude CC-By-SA assets at all. The only term they mention is the potential for conflicts with non-commercial licensing, but we don't accept those licenses into the archive.
Best of luck--I hope you use the assets and win some sweet loot. We'd all like to see that I think.