Can I participate with Sonic2 port in Vampire Next Gen category?
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There is a rule which was posted by Cammy on AmigaGameDev discord server:
> To be fair to other contestants, we can't accept any projects that you have already started working on before the competition begun. An exception might be if you started it within the last few days, if you can submit the entry at least that many days before the end date.
How long have you been working on the project? The competition rules only permit projects started after the 1st of August 2021. There may be exceptions made if you started the project within the last week or so, provided that you submit the final game at least a week or so before the contest end date. It would definitely be a perfect entry to the Next Gen category if it's following the rules.
There's a bit of an edge case here - I have submitted a project, "ClassicZoo". The Amiga port has technically only been in development since December, which would meet within the rules. However, since I'm the person responsible for the original reverse-engineering of ZZT's source code in March 2020 and most of the bugfixes/updates beyond, it could be argued that my personal involvement in the codebase stretches far before the jam's start date. On the other hand, the jam's rules state that using existing source code is allowed... I'll leave judgement to you on that one.