Licences & Credits

Attribution required — MIT

The 1444 starting scenario is adapted from the Alternate History Timeline Map Editor by Yulin-W — github.com/Yulin-W/alternate-history-editor, used under the MIT licence. The full licence text ships inside the game as THIRD_PARTY_MIT.txt.

MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Yulin-W

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The upstream author describes those scenarios as approximate. Starting ownership, capitals and country names were curated for this game, and the province shapes were rebuilt as described below.

Public domain — credit given voluntarily

Natural Earth — naturalearthdata.com. Natural Earth is in the public domain: no permission is needed and no attribution is required. This credit is given because the map could not exist without it.

What that data is used for, precisely: the real-world coastlines and administrative outlines it provides are the raw material our own tools work from. The provinces you play are not those units. They are merged, split and simplified until each one is large enough to tap on a phone and the map plays the way the scenario needs. The source files stay outside the app; only the finished mesh ships.

The borders are a playable approximation of 1444, not a surveyed historical frontier. The eastern and southern edges of the map are where the scenario stops, not where anything ended.

Original work — no third-party licence involved

All 97 state banners were drawn for Age of Rivalry from historical heraldic descriptions, composed by the project's own generator from geometric primitives and from a sheet of heraldic charges drawn for this game. No Wikimedia raster, no SVG path, no tracing and no asset from any commercial game is used, which is why the heraldry carries no CC BY or CC BY-SA obligation.

They are gameplay reconstructions, not authenticated copies of fifteenth-century banners. Some entries are dynastic arms, seals, or deliberately neutral designs where no state flag is attested.

Original work

The title illustration, the launcher icon and the interface icons were made for this project. The icon shows a generic fifteenth-century armoured commander and is not a portrait of any identifiable person.

CC0 1.0 — no attribution required

The music and the sound effects are an original composition and synthesis made for this game and released under CC0 1.0 Universal. Nothing here comes from a third-party audio pack.

Attribution required — SIL Open Font License 1.1

Noto Sans — Copyright 2018 The Noto Project Authors, github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts, licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. The full licence text ships inside the game alongside the font, as Fonts/OFL.txt.

Engine

Built with Unity.

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