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Not true. He also gave Kendra a last name as well.

Other than that, contact with Fox was through whoever handles their licensing. The RPG's had to stay true to the show, which is why there are sidebars all over the place explaining when we have come up with something on our own, usually conjecture from existing information or simply trying to make sense of the show's continuity.

An example of the first one is the idea that Buffy Dracula was Vlad Tepes AKA Vlad III the Impaler. Most people make that connection, since Vlad is where Stoker got the name Dracula from in the first place. There is also the fact that Rudolf Martin played Buffy's Dracula right after he was done playing Vlad III for Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula, so it is a safe bet that this is what Mutant Enemy had in mind for their Dracula, but they never actually say this. There is nothing preventing Whedon from deciding that Dracula is more like Drake in Blade III and has been alive since Sumerian times.

An example of the second would be the idea that the virtuous knight who pierced Acathla's heart and turned him into stone was a Spanish knight and that Acathla was a last ditch effort by some Aztec priests to defeat the Conquistadors. That's the only thing that makes sense historically, and the sword does look more like a Toledo blade than anything else, but Whedon could very well have been thinking medieval knight who stops Acathla in the Old World and ends up discovering America just because he wanted to find some place really far away to bury the demon. That wouldn't make a lot of sense, but I don't think that was really Whedon's first concern when he was writing Becoming.

So while the RPG stays very canonical and does a great job of making sense out of a convoluted continuity, nothing we came up with on our own is considered canon by Mutant Enemy. A good example of this is the ultimate fate of Sunnydale. Sunnydale is a coastal city with a beach, but at the end of the series it is a big dry hole in the ground. This makes no sense, so it was assumed that the Pacific Ocean would eventually fill that crater up. Lo and behold, in the Season 8 comics, Sunnydale is still a big dry hole in the ground. So there you go. Just because the RPG says something that makes perfect sense and covers up a logical oversight on the part of the show, Whedon & Co can just ignore it anyway because we don't add anything to canon.