# 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 post-0.10.0 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.