netfishing/docs

NETfishing documentation

This directory is the single home for maintained project documentation. Start here instead of searching feature, asset, world, or script directories for local README files.

Authoritative references

• DEVELOPMENT.md: architecture, engineering decisions, content and balance policy, authoring guidance, and validation.
• ATTRIBUTION.md: ownership, credits, licensing map, third-party notices, asset provenance, and redistribution requirements.
• PORTMASTER.md: PortMaster packaging, installation, controller mapping, performance behavior, and hardware release checks.
• README-PLAYTEST.txt: the player-facing README staged into desktop playtest packages.

Related repositories

• Discovery service API stays with the service implementation and defines its versioned HTTP contract.
• Dedicated-server packaging stays with its installer and update scripts. It consumes this repository's attribution and legal notices from the exact pinned game commit instead of maintaining copies.

Those code-coupled references remain in their own repositories. Game-wide architecture, authoring, licensing, credits, and provenance are not duplicated there.

Exact runtime values and behavior remain authoritative in source code, scenes, and resources. These documents describe boundaries, policy, and maintenance procedures; they should not duplicate changing constants or inventories that can be derived reliably from the project.

Files intentionally kept at the repository root

The following are entry points or governing legal documents rather than general project documentation, so they remain at conventional root paths:

• README.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• LICENSE
• ASSET-LICENSE.md
• TRADEMARKS.md
• CONTRIBUTOR-TERMS.md

Third-party font license texts stay beside their font files under ui/fonts/ so the licensed files and their original notices cannot drift apart. Build scripts collect those legal files and the authoritative attribution record when assembling releases.

Maintenance rule

Do not add feature-specific README files elsewhere in the repository. Add or update the appropriate reference above and link to its heading when source comments need more context. Player-facing package instructions belong only in README-PLAYTEST.txt; source and scripts remain authoritative for command-line usage.