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.

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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 |

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.

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.

**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.

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.

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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.

- [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)

**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.