# VERGE 3 documentation

- Rysen's VERGE Beginner Tutorial (beginners start here)
  [Local version] [www version]
- v3 Manual
  [local version] [www version]
- Guide to The Sully Chronicles
  [local version] [www version]
- packin vc library APIs
  [local version]

## VERGE Links

- verge-rpg.com
  The official homepage for VERGE. Join the community, it's free and awesome!
- Ric Lau's extended play
  An incredibly ancient archive of the happenings of the VERGE community circa 1997-98.

### Credits

#### Engine

- Benjamin "vecna" Eirich
  Creator and primary developer of verge 1,2, and 3.
- Matthew "Zeromus" Gambrell
  Itinerant codeslave, creator of CHRMAK5.
- John "Tatsumi" Hargrove
  Creator and maintainer of Maped3 and PackEd.

#### The Sully Chronicles

- Benjamin "McGrue" McGraw
  Maintainer of verge-rpg.com and The Sully Chronicles.
- Martin "Zip" P.
  Assistant Coder on the Sully Chronicles, editor of several vital docs, and general all-around cool guy.
- Tristan "RageCage" Michael
  Contributor of the funk-o-rama and blur special effects libraries. Awww yeah.
- Brian "Hahn" Peterson
  Original creator of The Sully Chronicles, the original instigator of VERGE, and Gamemaker extraordinaire.
- Shamus "Kildorf" Peveril
  Contributor of the camscroll vc library.

#### Special Thanks to:

- Joe "Loretian" Osburn
  Sysadmin of verge-rpg.com and Funkmaster General.
- Sean "Rysen" Oyler
  Creator of the generally awesome VERGE Beginner Tutorial.

### Legal stuff

VERGE 3 is provided for free use without warranty to anyone creating products with it for non-profit use.

Anyone using the engine in this way are required to have an approved startup sequence (any startup sequence proclaiming something along the lines of "made with VERGE 3" and providing a URL to the official verge homepage is generally acceptable, but if approval for any specific sequence was no secured, VERGEdev reserves the right to request the sequence be altered if deemed inappropriate).

Also, links and credits should be left in all of your readmes, documentation, and credits. The existance of a Readme is required, if only to proclaim that this was made using VERGE.

These requirements may be waived with permission from vecna.

For commercial licenses, please contact vecna. Serious inquiries only

VERGE 3 uses Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd's FMOD sound library, Chad Austin's Corona graphics library, and Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler's zlib compression library. They are all awesome libraries written by cool people. Please note that FMOD's license is limited to free for non-profit products, while Corona and ZLib both are completely free as long as you give them credit where credit is due.

The Sully Chronicles is released into the Public Domain and is provided without warranty or guarantee. It'd be nice if you thanked the authors of anything you use or modify from it, but we won't force you.