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[omgnoseat]

I'm not sure if I understand correctly; Do you have to make your own art for the first competition, and use that for the second programming competition?
What if you only want to enter the second competition, can you use art provided by the first competition from other teams?

Would be cool if you guys could also provice a list of programming languages that will be allowed, I'm having a hard time thinking of one.

[VDZ]

GPL v3 seems a bit much for graphical tile sets.  Either you retain ownership of your art or you put it out into the public domain.  What kind of restrictions does this put on game makers that want to use my tile set after the contest is over?  Must they include a raw copy of my art in every free or non-free game they make?

From the rules:
License: Your art must be available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GNU GPL 3.0.  You may license your art under any additional license(s) that you choose.
You can also license your work under a more permissive license in addition to GPL and CC-BY-SA if you want to, so you can make it more free, just not less free.

I'm not sure if I understand correctly; Do you have to make your own art for the first competition, and use that for the second programming competition?
What if you only want to enter the second competition, can you use art provided by the first competition from other teams?

Would be cool if you guys could also provice a list of programming languages that will be allowed, I'm having a hard time thinking of one.

Yes, that's the entire point; you use random art you steal from the first competition for use in the second competition. That's the entire point of free licenses; they allow people to steal your stuff and make new stuff with it.

As for the programming languages, I know that Java using OpenJDK is allowed. .NET using MONO, notably, is NOT allowed (or at least strongly discouraged, see the FAQ page). It would be nice if someone could compile a list of languages/libraries that could be used, yes.

[VDZ]

Liberated Pixel Cup programming part starts tomorrow. I'll be joining unless something weird stops me (I had to drop out of 7DFPS because what I tried to do was not technically feasible for me and I didn't have the time to start over). Anybody else from here going to join?

[kiwi]

This sounds really neat, I'm participating too with a chess like board game concept that I want to turn into pure epic.
As far as technologies go, I've decided to try out HTML 5 for this one and I'm currently trying to decide between LimeJS and EntityJS, but I more or less incline towards Lime right now.

[aschearer]

Any reason C# and Mono + MonoGame is not allowed?

[VDZ]

Any reason C# and Mono + MonoGame is not allowed?

Can we use DirectX, assuming the program compiles on MINGW and runs on WINE?  What about Mono?

We strongly recommend against it, as we can't guarantee that entreies that use DirectX or Mono will be acceptable under the rules of the contest.  It may be theoretically possible to use the DirectX API in compliance with the contest rules, provided the program compiles with MINGW and doesn't require any proprietary header files to do so, then runs on an out-of-the-box WINE install that does not include any proprietary Microsoft DLLs.

Secondly, questions about whether Microsoft or a third party might make patent claims about Mono have never been completely resolved (Microsoft's "promise" not to sue for patent infringement is not a legally binding agreement).  It's not a matter of debate that Mono is free software, but considering the fact that Microsoft has quite pointedly refused to make a legally binding promise not to sue, you should understand that using Mono does to some extent go against the spirit of the Liberated Pixel Cup, and may negatively affect your score.

TL;DR: Maybe, but we strongly recommend against it.

[PypeBros]

So in a nutshell ... be open, use open ...

[theweirdn8]

There has been great graphics made for this already.