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- # Reference — Free-source and licence audit of the D025 category list
-
- **REF110 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · Reference Researcher · Assigned work. Audit only — no approval, no shortlist, no purchase.**
- Assigned by PM in [PMR006](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr006): *"Reference Researcher then performs a
- bounded free-source/licence audit. Only remaining verified gaps should become an owner purchase/custom-asset
- decision. No asset has been approved, acquired or commissioned."*
- Audits the one presentation-category list at [Campaign §7](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign) (D025).
- Applies the licence rules recorded at [REF104](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) and the
- [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief)'s requirement that every shortlisted asset be recorded with source,
- creator, terms and intended use.
-
- > **Numbering note.** [Campaign §7](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign) calls this *"the Reference Researcher's
- > REF109 audit"*. REF109 is [Electroreception](/Reference/Electroreception); **this audit is REF110**.
- > Recorded so that the citation resolves rather than dangling.
-
- > **What "located" means on this page, and what it does not.**
- > **Located** = I fetched the asset's own page and read a licence statement *on that page*. A search
- > result, a blog listing or a collection page is not a located asset.
- > **Not assessed, by anyone, and not this role's to assess:** suitability, style fit, quality, resolution,
- > perspective match, or whether any located asset would actually serve. Nothing was downloaded, shortlisted,
- > approved, acquired or commissioned. Not legal advice.
- > **Not exhaustive.** The audit is bounded, as assigned. *Not located* here means "not found by this pass",
- > never "does not exist".
-
- ---
-
- ## 1. Result by category
-
- Campaign's list has six categories. Four need nothing found.
-
- | # | Category | Needs a source? | Audit result |
- |---|---|---|---|
- | 1 | Reuse of the pumping district's categories — 0 new | No | Nothing to audit |
- | 2 | Pose or scale of the base body — 0 new bodies, 5 poses | No | Depends entirely on category 4's licence permitting adaptation |
- | 3 | Engine-drawn cue — 0 assets | No | Nothing to audit |
- | 4 | **Licensed edit of a free asset** — 1 base body, 1 edit | **Yes** | **COVERED — see §2** |
- | 5 | **New asset, environment — 7 categories** | **Yes** | **Partly; see §3. Three categories had nothing located** |
- | 6 | Cut candidate — 3 named | No | Nothing to audit |
-
- ## 2. Category 4 — covered, and it is the load-bearing one
-
- Category 4 carries category 2 with it: five poses and one scale of a base body are only possible if the
- base body's licence **permits adaptation**. [REF104 §3.1](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) sets out why that is
- the axis licences differ on.
-
- | Field (per the Brief) | Record |
- |---|---|
- | Asset | **Top-down Shooter** — 580 files; tags *top-down, tile, furniture, zombie* |
- | Creator | **Kenney** (kenney.nl) |
- | Terms | **Creative Commons CC0**, read from the pack's own page 2026-09-06 |
- | Intended use | Base humanoid mass, tinted and resized; the Crust as an edit of that body |
- | Edit restriction | **None.** CC0 permits adaptation and requires no attribution ([REF104 §2](/Reference/Asset%20Licences)) |
-
- Source: [kenney.nl/assets/top-down-shooter](https://kenney.nl/assets/top-down-shooter). This is the pack the
- Lead named and I have now verified independently three times across REF104 and this audit.
-
- **One same-style-family alternative, also verified CC0:** Kenney, **Tower Defense (Top-Down)**, 300 files,
- tags *top-down, defense, tower, weapon* —
- [kenney.nl/assets/tower-defense-top-down](https://kenney.nl/assets/tower-defense-top-down). Recorded as an
- alternative source, not a recommendation; no suitability claim.
-
- ## 3. Category 5 — the seven environment categories
-
- Campaign states *"none located free"*. Testing that:
-
- | Element | Result | Candidate located | Creator | Terms |
- |---|---|---|---|---|
- | One animated water level serving three districts | **Candidates located** | [Animated water texture 128px](https://opengameart.org/content/animated-water-texture-128px) (30-frame, tileable) | YCbCr | **CC0** |
- | " | " | [Animated Ocean Water Tile](https://opengameart.org/content/animated-ocean-water-tile) | POKOMOKO | **CC0** |
- | " | " | [Top down grass, beach and water tileset](https://opengameart.org/content/top-down-grass-beach-and-water-tileset) | Matiaan | **CC0** |
- | Collector's wheels and meters; Exchange's drums and bank; the governor | **Adjacent material located — not the category** | [City Kit (Industrial)](https://kenney.nl/assets/city-kit-industrial), 40 files | Kenney | **CC0** |
- | " | " | [Platformer Pack Industrial](https://kenney.nl/assets/platformer-pack-industrial), 110 files | Kenney | **CC0** |
- | The rail and tram | **Nothing located** | — | — | — |
- | Lock gates | **Nothing located** | — | — | — |
- | Barrier gates | **Nothing located** | — | — | — |
-
- **Read the "adjacent material" row carefully.** Both Kenney industrial packs are **platformer and city
- perspective, not top-down**, and neither is described as containing wheels, meters, drums or a governor.
- They are recorded because they exist, are CC0, and are in the right subject area — **not** because they
- cover the category. Whether anything in them serves is a suitability question I did not assess and have no
- standing to assess. **Treat that row as "worth someone looking at", not as a gap closed.**
-
- So Campaign's *"none located free"* is **too strong for water** — three CC0 candidates exist, verified
- per asset — and **stands for the rail and tram, the lock gates and the barrier gates**, where this pass
- located nothing.
-
- ## 4. Two method findings, worth more than any single asset
-
- **A search result is not a verified asset.** Two packs surfaced by search as Kenney industrial content — a
- *Conveyor Kit* and a *Pipe Pack* — returned **HTTP 404** at the URLs given. Nothing was located there, and
- neither appears in this audit's tables. Recorded so that nobody cites them from the same search.
-
- **A collection is not an asset, and carries no licence.** OpenGameArt's *"Top-down Water Tiles"* is a
- **collection page**, not a submission: it has no single licence, because OGA licences attach per asset
- ([REF104 §3.1](/Reference/Asset%20Licences)). Anyone citing that URL as a licensed source is citing
- nothing. This is the abstract rule from REF104 turning up as a concrete trap inside an hour of looking.
-
- ## 5. What goes to the owner, and what does not
-
- PMR006: *"Only remaining verified gaps should become an owner purchase/custom-asset decision."* On this
- pass, the state is:
-
- - **Category 4 is covered** by a CC0 pack that permits adaptation, so categories 2 and 4 together need no
- owner decision on licence grounds.
- - **Water has CC0 candidates**, suitability unassessed.
- - **Industrial machinery has adjacent CC0 material**, suitability unassessed and perspective probably wrong.
- - **Rail and tram, lock gates, and barrier gates had nothing located.** Those are the three that reach the
- owner as a purchase-or-custom decision if a further pass does not find them — and a further pass has not
- been assigned.
-
- **That is a statement of the audit's state, not a recommendation.** Whether to buy, commission, cut or
- re-search is the owner's and PM's, and the three cut candidates on Campaign's own list bear on it.
-
- ---
-
- ## What this page does not claim
-
- No asset is approved, acquired, commissioned, shortlisted or downloaded. No suitability, style, quality or
- perspective assessment — explicitly out of scope and not this role's. No claim that any located asset fits,
- and no claim that a not-located category has no free source in existence; the audit is bounded, as
- assigned. Not legal advice. No expanded survey was run, and none is assigned.
-
- ## Sources
-
- - [PMR006](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr006) — the assignment · [Campaign §7](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign) — the D025 list audited · [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) — the source/creator/terms/intended-use record rule · [REF104](/Reference/Asset%20Licences) — the licence rules applied
- - Kenney, CC0, each read from its own page 2026-09-06: [Top-down Shooter](https://kenney.nl/assets/top-down-shooter) · [Tower Defense (Top-Down)](https://kenney.nl/assets/tower-defense-top-down) · [City Kit (Industrial)](https://kenney.nl/assets/city-kit-industrial) · [Platformer Pack Industrial](https://kenney.nl/assets/platformer-pack-industrial)
- - OpenGameArt, licence and author read from each asset page 2026-09-06: [Animated water texture 128px](https://opengameart.org/content/animated-water-texture-128px) (YCbCr, CC0) · [Animated Ocean Water Tile](https://opengameart.org/content/animated-ocean-water-tile) (POKOMOKO, CC0) · [Top down grass, beach and water tileset](https://opengameart.org/content/top-down-grass-beach-and-water-tileset) (Matiaan, CC0)
-
- ## Bookkeeping
-
- **Method.** Every licence and creator above was read from the asset's or pack's own page, not from a search
- result, a listing site or a summary — which is the whole point of an audit and is what caught both findings
- in §4. Nothing was downloaded. Kenney file counts are from each pack page's own Files field.
-
- **Bounded, as assigned.** Two sources were searched (Kenney and OpenGameArt) against seven environment
- categories. itch.io, Sketchfab, Poly Haven, Godot's asset library and paid stores were **not** searched, so
- the three not-located categories are not established as unavailable — only as not found here.
-
- **Corrections.** Kill any row by posting the asset's own page with a different licence on it.
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