Jack Whitham - 20,000 Light Years Into Space

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"20,000 Light Years Into Space" was written for Pyweek (March 2006) by Jack Whitham. It is a single-player real-time strategy game with a science-fiction theme. It gained second place in the competition. Since then, it has been featured on a number of gaming websites and has been included in two major Linux distributions. It has also been improved by contributions from a number of people:

Tom Dalton, who suggested the steam flow visualisation and a number of other improvements,
Matthew Marshall, who contributed a patch for a different version of the same visualisation feature,
Alexandru Toma, Terrence Brannon, Andrew Wilkinson, Neil Mitchell, James Wells and Jillian who tested the game and provided bug reports.
Ivo Anjo, Enrico Zini, Denilson Sa and Jan Niemeyer who sent in feature suggestions.
Richard Jones, who organised the competition that inspired this game.
Siegfried-A. Gevatter, who maintains the Debian package, wrote the man page, and contributed code to make the game suitable for Debian distribution.

The next version of the game will include code written by the following people:

David M. Marti, who has been working on several improvements,
Anne Archibald, who made a feature suggestion, wrote a patch to implement it and made some new graphics.

Legal stuff

Except where otherwise stated, the code is copyright (C) Jack Whitham 2006-2008.
Lunar texture (C) NASA, taken from: http://www.apolloexplorer.co.uk/hires/lunar_surface/default.htm
Rivets, greenrust, brick and 006metal textures from Accustudio: http://www.accustudio.com/
Floppy disk icon from XSane: http://www.xsane.org/
Other data files (C) Jack Whitham 2006-2008.

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License

    20,000 Light-Years Into Space, a computer game
    Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Jack Whitham

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
    as published by the Free Software Foundation.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, 
    Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA


		Copyright (C) Jack Whitham 1997-2008