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Disclaimer

The Definitive Guide, the Otherworld series of games, and the Charlie Bluster stories are works of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters, except for some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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This policy is effective from 1st September 2019.

Credits

Thank you for playing Otherworld

I would like to thank all of those who have been involved in the beta testing programme and in particular my wife Hazel who diligently tested a number of alpha releases and provided valuable feedback from the earliest days of this project.
In creation of this game I have made use of free content taken from locations on the Internet. We would like to thank all those people whose work we have used and to give them the credit that is due. This page contains details of everything used in this way including the relevant licenses.
I sincerely hope that you enjoy playing this game as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

Graeme Clarke

Text

All text in this game has been created by and is copyright to Graeme Clarke.

The only exception to this is the text in the Celtic Stories book all of which is currently held within the Public Domain. We would really like to thank Sacred Texts from where we sourced the content. Sacred Texts is the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore, and the esoteric on the Internet. Great job guys, your site is excellent and here is the link:

https://www.sacred-texts.com

Sounds

A considerable number of sound effects and music used in this game have been obtained from ZapSplat and licensed under the Zapsplat Standard License. We would also really like to thank Zapsplat for the sounds and for the fantastic web site:

https://www.zapsplat.com

We would like to credit several contributors to the Zapsplat site whose sound effects we have used. These effects are also licensed under the Zapsplat Standard License.

Gregor Quendel - https://www.gregorquendel.com/

Fox Audio - http://www.foxaudio.fr

Free to Use Sounds - https://freetousesounds.com

The Sound Pack Tree - https://thesoundpacktree.com/

PMSFX - https://www.pmsfx.com/

Audio Hero - http://audiohero.com

Articulated - https://articulatedsounds.com

Glitched Tones - https://www.asoundeffect.com/sounddesigner/glitchedtones/

Blastwave FX - http://www.blastwavefx.com

Adam A Johnson

David Gwyn-Jones - https://parkdaleproductions.bandcamp.com/music

Omar Alvarado - https://sonniss.com/vendor/omar1993/

The Zapsplat Standard License can be found here:
https://www.zapsplat.com/license-type/standard-license/

The following sound has also been obtained from the Zapsplat website but is licensed under the CC Attribution 4.0 International License.

Author: Little Robot Sound Factory

Link: https://www.zapsplat.com/music...
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The sound has been compressed for use in this game with fading added to the start and end of the track.

Some sounds have also been obtained from the Sound Bible website and we’d like to thank Mike Koenig as in every case its been his great work that we’ve used. Here is the Sound Bible website:

http://soundbible.com/royalty-free-sounds-1.html

Title: Wind Sound

This has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute 3.0 Generic license CC BY 3.0
Author: Mike Koenig
Description: Wind blowing 2 or howling slightly. a great nature sound requested by manoj sharma.
Link: http://soundbible.com/635-Wind.html
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The sound has not been adapted for use in this game.

Title: Spooky Water Drops Sound

This has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute 3.0 Generic license CC BY 3.0
Author: Mike Koenig
Description: Frekin spooky water drops in some abandoned cathedral scary as hell
Link: http://soundbible.com/380-Spooky-Water-Drops.html
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The sound has not been adapted for use in this game.

Also, we would like to thank Free SFX for the chapel bell tolling sound. Their website is here at:
http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Images

We would like to thank those photographers that have created the beautiful pictures that we used to create this game.

All photographs come from the following sources and are either in the Public Domain or are distributed under the CC0 Creative Commons license.

Free Images
https://www.freeimages.com/

Pexels
https://www.pexels.com/

Pixabay
https://pixabay.com

Unsplash
https://unsplash.com/

Wikimedia
https://commons.wikimedia.org

We would like to particularly thank Sweetaholic for the photograph of the Dolmen.

https://pixabay.com/photos/dolmen-new-stone-age-grave-ireland-456997/
https://pixabay.com/users/sweetaholic-296788/

And OpenClipart-Vectors for the image of the Celtic circle.

https://pixabay.com/vectors/celtic-celts-circle-color-colors-1292841/
https://pixabay.com/users/openclipart-vectors-30363/

The following images are distributed under other licenses and we would also like to extend our sincere thanks to those that have created them.

The Doll Tor stone circle, near Birchover in Derbyshire by Warofdreams

This has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute Generic license CC BY 2.5
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doll_Tor.JPG

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
The original work has been adapted for use in this game by splitting it into separate images and adding layered images on top.

Newgrange Burial Chamber by Jimmy Harris

This has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute 2.0 Generic license CC BY 2.0
Description: Stakes around the Newgrange burial chamber. County Meath, Ireland. Newgrange burial chamber
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newgrange_burial_chamber.jpg
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
The original work has not been adapted for use in this game.

Piedra del Destino by Germán Póo-Caamaño from Concepción, Chile

This has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute 2.0 Generic license CC BY 2.0
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piedra_del_destino_-_gpoo.jpg
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
The original work has not been adapted for use in this game.

Software

We would like to thank the authors of the nuget packages that we have employed in the development of this project.

Xam.Plugin.SimpleAudioPlayer

This has been licensed under the MIT license.
Description: Cross platform audio player for Xamarin and Windows
Author: Adrian Stevens
Version: 1.0.2

License Text:

Copyright (c) 2017 Adrian Stevens

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.

Microsoft Visual Studio App Center SDK for .Net

Version 2.0.0
These packages have been licensed under the MIT license.
Author: Microsoft
The SDK includes the following components:

Microsoft.AppCenter
Description: Common package for every App Center service.

Microsoft.AppCenter.Analytics
Description: Microsoft App Center Analytics package provides analytics capabilities for your mobile application.

Microsoft.AppCenter.Crashes
Description: Microsoft App Center Crashes package provides crash reporting capabilities for your mobile applications.

License text:
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
All rights reserved

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.

Xamarin SDK

This SDK been licensed under the MIT license.
Author: Xamarin Inc
The SDK includes the following components:

Xamarin.Forms
Description: Build native UIs for iOS, Android and Windows Phone from a single shared C# code base.
Version: 2.4.0.91020

Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView
Description: Microsoft App Center Analytics package provides analytics capabilities for your mobile application.
Version: 2.3.0-pre2

Xamarin.Android.Support
Description: Support Library C# bindings for Xamarin.
Version: 23.3.0

License text:
Xamarin SDK

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) .NET Foundation Contributors

All rights reserved.

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.