1. Would both kinds of "ascent" be all right especially if the figurative one comes first? (e.g., "ascent" up a military rank comes first in the story, but the actual physical ascent comes later near the end of the game and guaranteed to appear within the one hour play time for all judges who judge the entry.) Hopefully there will not be some kind of misunderstanding that the game did not follow the jam's rules due to the figurative "ascent" that comes first.
2. How many entries can be submitted per entrant?
3. Can a submission be less than six minutes in play time?
Or maybe even two minutes total. Or maybe even mostly cut scenes of a game that is only four minutes long, and has less than one minute where the player actual controls something.
EDIT #1:
4. Following up from #1, what if the entire game is about a figurative "ascent," and the actual physical ascent the player sets foot on is only during a post-game moment? (e.g., after the player finishes the game, the credits roll, and the game says "The End." But instead of automatically going to the title screen, the player directly goes to a post-game map on the physical ascent where they walk upwards for one final cut scene.)
EDIT #2: Made the questions bold and added other examples that could be related to the third question.
EDIT #3:
Made the fourth question bold, but also adding this:
5. Following up from #4, would the player need to be controlling the walk up the ascent, or could it be purely a cut scene of the player character walking up there? And about the player needing to "set foot" on the ascent in general, can it be completely a part of a cut scene, or does the player need to be controlling the movement?