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Uses external code and libraries
- Half Life 1 SDK LICENSE (Copyright(C) Valve Corp.)
- FMOD 3.7.5
- LUA 5.0 (http://lua.org)
- Particle system library by David McAllister (http://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/00-007.pdf).
Original code and design by Charlie Cleveland (charlie@unknownworlds.com, @flayra).
Many contributions from Karl Patrick (karl.patrick@gmail.com), Petter Rønningen <tankefugl@gmail.com>, Harry Walsh <harry.walsh@gmail.com>, and probably lots of people I forgot.
