
	          JOIN THE ABUSE GAME DEVELOPER PROGRAM
  AND MAKE MONEY CREATING EXCITING NEW WORLDS WITH THE ABUSE ENGINE!

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!

Guidelines for submission:

First off, do not call our 1 800 number about this.  They won't have a
clue about this.

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.

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.

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:

  By E-mail (preferred) :

    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.

  By US Mail :

    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.

Now to get some ugly legal stuff out of the way:

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:

  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.

The exception to the above three rules:

     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.

That's the end of the evil ugly legal stuff.

Questions?

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.

Good luck, and we look forward to working with you!

-Dave Taylor
 Partner
 Crack dot Com


