About

AssaultCube is a total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen´s FPS called Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

The contents of this README:

Documentation
Help!
Contribute
Authors
License

Documentation

Basics

get started - before you play, basics, instructions on running the game
game - information about gameplay, modes, weapons, etc
server - set up your own server, administration

Advanced

startup - command line arguments
reference - documentation of the available commands and variables
editing - map making tutorial on cubeengine.com
mappers readme - the official mapping guidelines
CubeScript - a CubeScript introduction
cube engine - how the cube engine works

Misc

known issues - known problems in AC
history - changes on this game
tricks - a few AC tricks

Online Resources

The AssaultCube Wiki contains additional documentation created by the community.

Help!

If you need help when running AC, follow these steps:

Search this documentation for a solution, make sure you read the relevant sections.
Browse the AC wiki, especially its FAQ might help.
Visit the forum and use its search functionality. If you don't find any useful stuff, post a detailed question there. Please respect the forum rules..

Instead of posting to the forum, you can also ask the people in our IRC channel, #AssaultCube on Quakenet.

Contribute

help and discussions on the forum
development, testing and gaming on IRC #AssaultCube Quakenet
report bugs on the bugtracker
submit patches here

Authors

Rabid Viper Productions

Andrew “Arghvark” Davis	Project Leader, Game Concept, Code
Adrian “driAn” Henke	Lead Coder
Markus “makkE” Bekel	Lead artist, Models, Skins, Animations, Mapping, 2d-Art, some textures, Sound
Shane Nieb	Models
Mitaman	Maps, Ressources
Elliot “Verbal_” Lockwood	QA, Advisor, Lead Tester, pro-coffee service
Lee “eihrul” Salzman	Coder, Enet Library, Cube2 backporting

Thanks to

Wouter “Aardappel” van Oortmerssen and others	The Cube Game/Engine
Lee “Eihrul” Salzman	Enet Library
Rick Helmus	Bot Code
Julian “absinth” Mayer	Packaging AssaultCube for Mac
Paul “JCDPC” Cash	Laptop Model, Company
Dietmar “DCP” Pier	Soundtrack
Zac “dtd” Jarco	Hosting

Thanks to kurtis84, player1, quase and some others for testing.

License

AssaultCube is freeware, you may freely distribute the AssaultCube installer/archive unmodified on any media. You may re-compress using different archival formats (i.e. zip/tgz/rpm/deb/dmg), any changes beyond that require explicit permission.

AssaultCube is distributed WITHOUT WARRANTY, you may use it for any purpose as long as you do not blame us for any damages incurred.

As this game consists of different packages with different licenses, see these files in your AssaultCube installation for additional information:

docs/package_copyrights.txt
source/README.txt
source/README_CUBEENGINE.txt