Great questions!
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I think as long as the gender requirements there are fulfilled, yes. I currently am editing a forthcoming COG game where the PC is an animal.
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That’s probably TBD. Obviously we would copyedit it, whether we’d do a substantial round of team full draft edits/notes before publishing isn’t something we’ve discussed at length. We would hope winning entries wouldn’t require substantial edits.
Suffice to say the game will be judged on how closely it matches our design aesthetic (see judging criteria) without us having to edit it.