Hi, I just had a few questions in regard of the contest. I'm planing to enter the contest and wanted to do perhaphs a full vampire set (i.e, Hair, cloths, weapon?)and I was wondering, if I would have to split them all up and summit them seperately or could I just summit it as a whole?. Also I wanted to make sure if I can edit the base; change its shading, colors, perhaphs edit some of the frames?
I will appriciate it if you can respond asap, since I want to have time and in the case I can't edit the base I don't want to lose the time I would have spend editing it.

-- MdNight

Hi MdNight! I haven't spoken to the other editors about this yet, so this is a preliminary response. If you hear nothing else, this is what you can go by:

As long as the sprite modifications can be overlayed, are color adjustments or minor changes, I think it's fine. To quote the contest rules: "Contest entries must be pixel art accessories or modifications for the OpenGameArt.org base sprites (linked above). This can include clothing, weapons, eyes, hair, or any other alterations or additions to the sprite bases.

So IMO, eg. new animations would be considered "additions". Changes that fit cleanly with the current base sprite should be cool too. A completely new base sprite is not (for this competition - of course we would love any contributions!). My take on it is that it's fine as long as it's obviously based on the base sprite. The only real constraint is that any changes you make should not interfere with the ability to combine the sprite with other accessories and such of the base sprite.

As for how to submit them, ideally it should be as modular as possible. So any edits that can be seperated cleanly should be (accessories etc). If you want to do this by layers or by seperating them in space is up to you. Submitting a single file is fine!

Thanks for your interest and participation :).