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- JOIN THE ABUSE GAME DEVELOPER PROGRAM
- AND MAKE MONEY CREATING EXCITING NEW WORLDS WITH THE ABUSE ENGINE!
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- Crack dot Com's Abuse Game Developer Program has made it a piece of cake
- to earn money doing game design using the Abuse engine. If you enjoy
- making interesting levels or new games using the Abuse engine, send them
- to us by November 1, 1995 so that they can be considered for the
- Thanksgiving Abuse Data Pack. If the submission is approved, we will
- send you profits from the sales based on the quality of your work! If
- you have missed this deadline, give us a call at 512 306 1835 or e-mail
- gamedev@crack.com. We may release more than one data pack!
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- Guidelines for submission:
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- First off, do not call our 1 800 number about this. They won't have a
- clue about this.
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- Make sure that your level or game is playable fresh out of the archive
- you sent it in, or we'll get the nasty first impression that you don't
- care about appearances. How large or complete does it have to be? Use
- the Abuse levels as a guideline. Try to fill roughly the same area (or
- more) and get a similar amount (or more) of gameplay in there. If
- you're doing game design on a Pzillion with 64Mb RAM, watch yourself, or
- your level may not turn out well-suited to mortal machines.
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- If your level is of an inadequate size, duration, or needs any other
- form of polish, we will help you with suggestions. Just make a
- submission as specified below and we'll send you back design comments.
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- If you're using zip file(s), make sure that you zip starting in the
- abuse directory and recursively get the entire directory hierarchy.
- When it is ready for us to check out, you can send your data as follows:
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- By E-mail (preferred) :
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- 1. Put your data in a .zip, .tar.gz or .tar.Z archive.
- 2. Uuencode the archive.
- 3. E-mail it to us at gamedev@crack.com.
- 4. E-mail another letter with your name, phone number, e-mail address,
- where you want checks delivered, who you want them made out to,
- your social security number, and a short description of your
- submitted data to gamedev@crack.com.
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- By US Mail :
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- 1. Put your data in a .zip or .tgz archive and get it on a 3.5" floppy,
- zip disk (using MSDOS or ext2 filesystem), or CDROM with iso-9660
- filesystem.
- 2. Mail it to: Crack dot Com, c/o: Game Dev., PO Box ____, Austin, TX ____
- 3. Include a letter with your name, phone number, where you want
- checks delivered, who you want them made out to, your social
- security number, and a short description of your submitted data
- to gamedev@crack.com.
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- Now to get some ugly legal stuff out of the way:
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- Any original artwork, sound effects, or LISP code that you do FROM
- SCRATCH, you maintain the complete copyright to. However, levels
- (contained in our .spe file format) contain specific data that we
- maintain the copyright on, even if you think you're doing them from
- scratch. We reserve the right to control distribution of level data as
- well as any artwork, sound, and LISP code from our shareware or
- registered versions of the game. Our guidelines on how level data may
- be distributed:
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- 1. You may distribute level data if you do not collect
- any compensation for it. For instance, you can upload it to an
- ftp site or BBS or online service public download area, as long
- as you aren't receiving compensation for it.
- 2. You may submit it to us so that we may consider distributing it
- for you. We will pay you profits directly based on the quality
- of the work you submit. We will have an answer for you within
- five business days of the submission date.
- 3. If we turn down your data for distribution, you may then either
- seek a third party distributor, if you wish to seek compensation
- for the data, or you may of course choose to release it for free.
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- The exception to the above three rules:
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- You may not publicly distribute any modified or original levels
- from the REGISTERED VERSION. You may not distribute any modified
- or original artwork, sound, or LISP code from the REGISTERED
- VERSION. You may submit modified versions of the above to us to
- consider publishing. However, you may not have it published through
- a third party if we refuse.
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- That's the end of the evil ugly legal stuff.
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- Questions?
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- If you have questions about anything in this file or how the
- distribution program works, you may also call us at 512 306 1835 or
- e-mail gamedev@crack.com.
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- Good luck, and we look forward to working with you!
-
- -Dave Taylor
- Partner
- Crack dot Com
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