LUDICRITAL

Welcome to the source repository for LUDICRITAL, the NORMAL webcomic. Here you'll find source files, text documents, and other files pertaining to the comic and its development.

SPOILER WARNING: The plaintext files found in this repository contain the LUDICRITAL story in its current entirety as well as some miscellaneous lore-related tidbits. If you don't want spoilers, it's best not to peek at these.

What Makes LUDICRITAL Special

• Made simply / sucklessly. Uses an aliased style with a limited palette, which compresses well, and all scripts made for the webcomic are made to be generally suckless, and produce things that should last much longer than the typical JavaScript fare, if not decades.
• Free culture. The webcomic and all of its related material are released under CC0 with an additional waiver of rights.
• Has cats! Though this one is probably not all that unique...

Pages / Panels

Pages are saved in 3-page panel XCF files for use in the GNU Image Manipulation Program. They are split into layer groups for each of the pages, with layers within separating certain drawings, e.g. individual characters and speech bubbles.

Creator's Reference

The Creator's Reference (CreatorReference.xcf) contains all the stylistic reference needed for either making LUDICRITAL pages (mainly for myself, blitzdoughnuts) or for referencing off of for LUDICRITAL fanworks. It contains the main palette, speech bubble and character outline references, and some details on the type of brush used and the intended feel of the art style, alongside information about LUDICRITAL.

Contributing

You don't.

TODO

• GZip the XCFs like I do in blitzstuff? GIMP can still read them and they compress well due to their nature

Licensing

LUDICRITAL and all related materials are released under CC0 + a waiver of rights following below. I, blitzdoughnuts, have created most things in this repository, including but not limited to art, writings, characters, the story, and any and all code. I hope that, with this waiver of rights, that I release this work into the public domain forever and unconditionally.

Each contributor to this work agrees that they waive any exclusive rights, including but not limited to copyright, patents, trademark, trade dress, industrial design, plant varieties and trade secrets, to any and all ideas, concepts, processes, discoveries, improvements and inventions conceived, discovered, made, designed, researched or developed by the contributor either solely or jointly with others, which relate to this work or result from this work. Should any waiver of such right be judged legally invalid or ineffective under applicable law, the contributor hereby grants to each affected person a royalty-free, non transferable, non sublicensable, non exclusive, irrevocable and unconditional license to this right.

Rendered pages of LUDICRITAL use the Aileron fontface, licensed under CC0. You can find it here: https://dotcolon.net/fonts/aileron.