# Credits and Provenance

Gig Line is a local, single-player security-shift game built with Godot 4 and
GDScript. This file records the asset provenance needed for the release review;
it is not a legal opinion or a claim that every provider licence has already
been cleared for public distribution.

## Game, code and design

- Game design, systems, scenarios, dialogue and UI code: the Gig Line project.
- Engine: [Godot Engine 4.7.2](https://godotengine.org/), MIT licence.
- The game bundles no third-party fonts; it uses Godot's default theme font.
- No third-party music, sound effects or voice recordings are bundled. Crowd
  ambience and radio cues are generated procedurally at runtime.

## 3D characters, gear and props

The character, gear and prop library is generated by project-owned scripts
(`tools/blender_assets.py`, `tools/npc_pipeline.py`, `tools/model_pipeline.py`)
using Blender. The `.blend` working sources are developer artifacts and are not
shipped. The exported `.glb` files and baked AO maps are project assets; they do
not embed third-party models or purchased asset packs.

### Development-only research previews

Two review sheets under `docs/blender_previews/` compare source candidates for
the future NPC variety work. They are development documentation and are not
bundled with the game or its release packages. The underlying source models are
kept outside version control.

- [`sheet_npc_sources_research.jpg`](docs/blender_previews/sheet_npc_sources_research.jpg)
  includes renders of **Quaternius Ultimate Modular Characters** (CC0 1.0,
  <https://quaternius.com/>), **Kenney Blocky Characters 2.0** (CC0 1.0,
  <https://kenney.nl/assets/blocky-characters>), and **CesiumMan** and
  **RiggedFigure** (CC BY 4.0, © 2017 Cesium,
  <https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Assets>).
- [`sheet_npc_crowd_prototypes.jpg`](docs/blender_previews/sheet_npc_crowd_prototypes.jpg)
  contains renders of project-owned generator prototypes.

The CC-BY preview images are included only as development evidence. Any future
shipped derivative of CesiumMan or RiggedFigure must keep the attribution above.

The venue geometry is authored procedurally in `src/game/world_builder.gd` as a
stylized reconstruction. The Joke Shop is a fictional stand-in for the real
Sunset Strip block; the game does not claim endorsement by, or an exact replica
of, any real venue or tenant.

## AI-assisted images

Surface textures, skyline panoramas, UI art and concept references were produced
with image-generation calls from the project's tooling. The default model slugs
recorded in the source are:

- `bytedance-seed/seedream-4.5` — `tools/generate_textures.py`
- `openai/gpt-5-image-mini` — `tools/asset_pipeline.py`,
  `tools/model_pipeline.py`, `tools/scene_concepts.py` and
  `tools/screen_designs.py`
- Judging/review calls use the model selected by `tools/openrouter_judge.py` and
  are development-only; they do not ship in the game.

The prompts and generation workflow live in those tools. Per-file generation
metadata is not stored with every image, so the exact provider, model version and
generation date of each committed bitmap cannot be reconstructed from the
repository alone. Before a public 0.10.0 release, the provider terms and
commercial-use/redistribution rights for those generated outputs must be
reviewed and recorded. **This is a release blocker, not an assumed clearance.**

Reference photographs linked from the venue documents are hosted on Wikimedia
Commons and were used for proportion/material study only. They are not included
in the game or its release packages. If any future derivative asset copies a
reference more directly, its attribution and licence must be added here.

## Audio

All runtime audio is procedural (crowd bed, radio crackle and interface cues).
There are no external audio files, so there is no separate music/SFX licence to
clear. See `docs/accessibility.md` for caption and volume behaviour.

## Third-party names

The game is a work of fiction. Real place names and public references are used
for orientation and satire/stand-in geography; no real person, venue or brand
endorses the game. Review the storefront and trademark language before release.