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Are we allowed to get help?

A topic by Xeight created Apr 22, 2025 Views: 198 Replies: 5
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This sounds a bit confusing but basically - If I have a full team of 3, am I allowed to ask other people for assistance with things like programming, or playtesting?

In the rules Play testers are not a part of the team and can be credited if you want but for coders is assume they count towards the Team because they put work into the game so

For coders I mostly would just like to ask for assistance on questions, not have them write major parts of the code

Jam Judge

Hello!
As we previously said, playtesters are not counted as part of the team. You are free to share the game around with family and friends for further feedback before the jam period ends. However, I do not mainly understand the assistance for things like programming. What do you exactly mean by that, can you give an example?

Cheers.

Hey, as I described in a comment above - I just want to perhaps consult some programmers to see if they could assist with helping me figure some things out. Basically they won’t be doing a job any more than someone on Stack Overflow would.

Jam Judge

In this case, yes, there is no problem with "consulting" programmers for some help.

Cheers.