Before submitting your mod or mod promotional material, please ensure your mod adheres to the following guidelines:

1) Above all, submissions must follow the DDLC IP Guidelines as written by Team Salvato linked here: Team Salvato IPG.

2) Submissions must be free of, and avoid accidental use of Copyrighted Material - including improperly credited assets. Credited assets must also be clearly present within the mod, possibly within a .txt file or a credits scene within the mod itself.

3) Submissions must have been released within the year 2025, or have had their next significant Demo Release (including Episodes/Acts/Chapters) within the year 2025. The significance of an updated 2025 Demo Release should take into consideration how its New Content transforms the previous year's release. Without new content for the player to explore (aka new scenes and possibly new assets too), the submission cannot qualify as a 2025 release. Translations of a mod from a previous year do NOT count as a 2025 release.

4) Any amount of submissions by either a Team and/or an Individual are allowed. However, mods nominated for the competition cannot have the same creator involved in multiple nominations. In the event of conflict, we will ask the creators involved on which submission they'd like to take priority, and the other will be removed from the nominations in favor of another.

5) Submissions containing Generative AI of any form are NOT allowed. However, AI-Enhanced assets (such as AI upscaling with Waifu2X) are allowed.

6) Submissions containing Intentionally Offensive Content (such as Hate Speech, Targeted Harassment, or Insensitivity toward Political Subjects) will see immediate removal. Submissions covering potentially sensitive content are allowed, but only if they avoid being insensitive toward the topic at hand.

7) Mods currently banned within r/DDLCMods, or entirely related to a mod banned within that same subreddit, will also be fully banned here.

Please note, it is NOT the Judges'/DDMX Organizers responsibility to preemptively inform you of a rule your mod violates. You are fully allowed to resubmit a mod if you believe your mod violates one of these mods so long as it is done before the submission deadline.
Any resubmissions will NOT be accepted after the submission deadline!!!