About 'Enter The Story' - credits, music, and public domain art

Where the music comes from:

A lot of people have asked where the classical music comes from in the game, so I've added this section. In Les Misérables the music changes depending on what is happening, so I've added some notes. But the Divine Comedy is a linear journey, where each location has its own music, so it should be much easier to find the music you want after playing the game.

Dr.Keith Salmon (royalty-free-classical-music.org):
if you're on a tight budget, and want real choral music, then royalty-free-classical-music is the only game in town. Compare the legal small print on other royalty free sites and you'll come back to royalty-free-classical-music.org
Les Misérables:
'Sanctus' from Faure's Requiem (intro choir)
'Miserere Mei' by Allegri (start and church)
'Introit and Kyrie' from Faure's Requiem (sewers)
'Humming Chorus' from Puccini's Madame Butterfly (Javert's final scenes)
Buckner's 'Ave Maria' (convent; Valjean reborn; Fantine dies)
'Qui Tollis' from Mozart's 'Great Mass' (Marius realizes the truth; barricades and close; loud death blast)
Divine Comedy:
'Morning' from Peer Gynt by Grieg (Eden)
'Sanctus' in Faure's Requiem
'Mars' from The Planets by Holst (trenches near the bottom of Hell; getting past Dis)

Chris Worth Productions (ChrisWorthProductions.com).
This is my single favorite track in the whole game. I could listen to it forever.
'Solveig's Song' from Pier Gynt by Grieg, played by the Moscow International Symphony Orchestra: music after the game ends

Paco Santiago, interpreted by Paco and Miguel Santiago (www.pacosantiago.com):
This is the beautiful guitar music that is used throughout Les Misérables. The tracks are dedicated to the memory of Miguel Santiago who passed away in 2001.
Valjean's theme:
'Miguel' (from Valjean's freedom to his rebirth)
'Vals de la nostalgia' (from rebirth to revealing his past in court)
'Vals triste' (from revealing his past to his escape)
'Vagabundo' (from the escape to the convent)
'Obsesion' (from the convent to the barricades)
'Desesperacion' (from the barricades to the house)
'Desde mi ventana' (from the suicide to when Valjean leaves)
'The Sad Man' (Valjean's final scenes)
Other music:
'Sonatina' (the tavern)
'Lamento' (the library and archives)
'Alicia' (falling in love)

Hamilton Cleverdon (www.garageband.com/artist/hamilton)
I LOVE this guy's music! I think you will too. Les Misérables was dominated by Paco Santiago, and the Divine Comedy is dominated by Hamilton Cleverdon.
Divine Comedy:
'Dies Irae'
'Shadows of Faith - A Dark Alleluia'
'Shadows of Fire'
'Rum Alleluia' (the final climax)
'Lacrimosa'
'Decorus Angelus'

Matthew Hartman:
Matthew's stuff blew me away. He was originally going to be the composer for the entire game (that's how good I think he is), but unfortunately I took so long to finish it that other commitments took over. People with his talent are ain demand. But the four tracks he did produce were amazing. You'll hear his work every time you visit the copyrights page in any game.
'Les Misérables' parts 1,2,3 and 4 (copyright menu, saving Fantine from Javert, and the claimax to Javert's final scenes)

The St Olaf chapel choir (www.stolaf.edu/depts/music/chapel/)
I was thrilled when they gae me special permission to use their choir music. It's beautiful stuff.
Divine Comedy: basically all the new angelic singing is from St Olaf's:
'Libera Me' from Verdi's Requiem
'In Paradisium' from Verdi's Requiem
'Agnus Dei' from Verdi's Requiem
'Te Deum' from Verdi's Requiem
'Libera Me' and 'Te Deum' from Verdi's Requiem

Musopen: the online free music library (www.musopen.com).
This is an incredible resource - real choirs and orchestras, and it's public domain! The clarity of sound is often excellent. One caution - anyone can upload anything, so you have to be careful that the piece you want really is public domain. These pieces are.

Les Misérables:
Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo and Juliet,' performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (the kiss; Marius with the gunpowder)
Dvorak's Mass in D, performed by the Davis High School Symphony Orchestra (Eponine in front of house)
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (death on the barricades; escape to the sewers)
'Night on Bald Mountain' by Rimsky-Korsakov, performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra (Cosette cold)

Divine Comedy:
'Night on Bald Mountain' again
'Pictures at an Exhibition, 1, Gnomus,' performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra

Piotr Pawlowski:
This man's 'Desiderium' appears on various music sites on the web. I found it at Jamendo. I've been unable to contact him - the links don't work, and I emailed every 'Piotr Pawlowski' I could find but with no success. Normally I'd leave it at that, but this is one time where I make an exception. The music is so good, and I'm 99% certain he's approve (based on my experiecne working with other composers in similar situations) so I've taken the chance of using it. This music deserves to be heard! If you know how I can contact Piotr Pawlowski, please let me know!

Les Misérables:
'Introit' from 'Desiderium' (the court climax)
'Domine' from 'Desiderium' (dying Fantine)
'Kyrie' from 'Desiderium' (Marius) - this is the first music I think of when I think of this game - I never get tired of it! Next time Marius appears in the game (after his very first scenes when he has different music), just sit back close your eyes and listen to his theme music. "Brrrrrr-Um-dudu-dum-dudu-dum..." I love it!

Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech (www.incompetech.com):
Kevin is the Patron Saint of indie games and movies: the world's biggest and best source for free. legal, high quality prooduction music. And a really nice guy too. Without Kevin, hundred (thousands?) of games and videos simply could not be made.

Les Misérables:
"Exciting Trailer" (intro)
"To The Ends" (when Valjean reveals his name in the court)
"Earth Prelude" (gentle music)
"Trio for Piano Violin and Viola" (the Gillenormand home)
"Grave Blow" (the Jondrette/Thenardier apartment)
'Dark Dance' (dark backstreets)
'Bach's Brandenburg No 4, part 1' (assembly rooms, normal)
'The Rule' (assembly rooms, Napoleon)
'Action' (friends of the ABC)
'Parisian' (Paric, center)
'Crisis' (lifting the cart)
'We Got Trouble' (final blackmail)
'Achilles' and 'Faceoff' (in court)
'Plannings' (night escape, wall climb)
'Fantastic (B1-128)' (rigging)
'Faceoff' (in the grave)

Divine Comedy:
'Schmetterling' (voices when we first meet Dante)
Inferno:
'Land of the Dead'
'The Dread'
'Grave Blow'
'Grave Matters'
'Halls of the Undead' (the gates of the city of Dis)
'Noire'
Purgatory and Paradise:
'Numinous Shine'
'Frozen Star'
'Arcadia'

Other composers / sources:
many of these talented people offered their work for free, others run very low price high wuality music web sites. Thanks to you all!

Jonathan Slatter from Sounds Visual/YOPO (www.yopo.co.uk): this is a great place if you want professional quality clips at a low price with no hidden costs (e.g. no extra charge if you ned more than 5,000 copies of your project)
Divine Comedy:
'Heaven'
'The Friars' Chant'

Music For Multimedia(Romeo Music International, all rights reserved): this is fro an old CD I have, specially intended for mustimedia productions. A lot of people have said how much they like it, especially the flute music.
Les Misérables:
Flute tracks 2 and 5 (the forest)
Flute track 10 (find Cosette)
Piano track 4 (Gillenormand confrontation)
Piano track 21 (Gillenormand discord)
Divine Comedy:
organ music
music by Delius (sorry I can't be more precise)

The 'zero-project' (www.zero-project.gr)
Les Misérables:
part 3 of the 'Disabled Emotions' suite (the dock and ship)
part 2 of the 'Disabled Emotions' suite (escaping the grave)

Jonathon Roberts (jmtr.com)
Les Misérables:
'Wondrous Love (string quartet)' (Eponine, tragic)
'Prayer Drone' (when Fantine is dead)

The Mutopia project (www.mutopiaproject.org): this is really intended as a sheet music resource, but played ina MIDI player some of it sounds realy nice.
Les Misérables:
The French suite 5, 'allemande' (happy reconciliation)
'Ich Grolle Nicht' (in the factory)

Fredrik Blom (www.fredrikblom.com/music):
Les Misérables:
"Tsunami" (the Les Miserables fire)

Taylor Hayward (www.taylorhayward.org)
Les Misérables:
'Asunder' (Fantine in the police station)
'Mary' (in the garden)

Likantropika (Jamendo.com)
Les Misérables:
'Random gods' from the album 'Came dark and silent' (in the galley, inside the ship)

Matthew Milne (from the Public Music Project)
Les Misérables:
'Haunting'

Peter John Ross (sonnyboo.com)
'Drone' (Valjean in turmoil)

Iain Morland
Divine Comedy:
'Citadel Ascent'

Other artists, whose work will probably appear in future games:

'Bosa'
Kisch Stockzieh
Fredrik Blom (www.fredrikblom.com/music)
John Kwasnik
Logan Leistikov
Brian Fleming (Nothing So Strange)
Eric Hamilton (Dilvie)
Serge Winitszki
Scott P Anderson
aGIANTpupafish
Soundcrafter
James Spanos

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to Enter The Story. If I've forgotten anyone, my sincerest apologies! Please let me know, and I'll update this page.

Finally, I'd like to thank...

I can't take all the credit for the art, and I can't take any credit for the music in the game. Most of it was generously donated by people more talented than me. This may seem like a long list, but remember that a single extra-wide background may contain elements from twenty different pictures. And some of the art is scheduled for use in future games.

All art and music remains the property of the individual copyright holders

---- story consultant ----
Arlene Harris, PontAuChange.com

---- sound effects ----
artists from FreeSound (freesound.iua.upf.edu)
inferno
PhreaKsAccount
jon285
HerbertBoland
ERH
petenice
victorcenusa
billy_magnum
hanstimm
thedapperdan
roscoetoon
oyez
delphidebrain
harri
suonho
dobroide
stackpool
Hell's Sound Guy

---- game engine ----
Adventure Game Studio 2.72 created by Chris Jones
OGG player 'alogg' by Javier Gonzalez with the Ogg Vorbis decoder www.xiph.org copyright (c) 2002 Xiph.org Foundation
Graphics and sound courtesy of the Allegro graphics library alleg.sourceforge.net
Linux port: Shawn Walker
Hq2x and Hq3x scalers: Maxim Stepin
load/save: Aapeli Kutila
hotspot text: Gilbert Cheung
simple globals: SSH
general assistance: everyone at AGS forums
Installer:
INNO www.innosetup.com
handwriting font: Reiner Hand, canadatype.com

---- principle testing ----
Lars Kemmann

---- additional testing ----
Rachel Tolworthy
Alice Tolworthy
Ann Porter
Devin Rose
'Vahn'
Luke Sturgess-Durden

---- principle art ----
adapted from classics by:
Canaletto
Berthault
Bello
Van Gogh
Daubigny
Henry William Burgess
Philips Koninck
and others
also illustrations from various copyright expired books and newspapers

---- additional art ----
the Bull I' The Thorn Inn www.bulliththorn.co.uk
Mr J. Doe (for sewer art)
Andres Green

photography via Flickr: (Creative Commons 2.0) (attribution)
in Les Miserables:

aewolf
Atari
austinevan
burge5000
chaojikazu
Cimexus
ddfreyne
Dplanet
Elsie esq
eimoberg
Gracinha
Irish Philadelphia Photo
nodomain.cc
Marco
Photo Monkey
orangeacid
S & Co
Tom Purves

in The Divine Comedy:

activefree
amfdesigner
andrijbulba
angela7dreams
Arturo Avila
Chispero
Christian Revival Network
Clearly Ambiguous
crschmidt
Dan'l Burton
David Wilmot
emdot
Falashad
fdecomite
Felipe Venâncio
georger_gilbert
ground.zero
http2007
Ignorant Walking
Ingorrr
jared
Jarvist Frost
Jeff Pang
joguldi
krossbow
longhorndave
mandj98
mckaysavageThe Wandering Angel
me'nthedogs
NoiseCollusion
nordique
polandeze
rdoroshenko
René Ehrhardt
rickpawl
sedoglia
Tjeerd
visulogik
Wolfgang Staudt
Wonderlane

Work from the following artists and sources will appear in later editions of ENTER THE STORY

123rf.com
BigFoto.com
Cepolina.com
The Center For Disease
Control and Prevention
Corel Stock Photos
Dartmouth College
Don Davis (NASA)
DavidNiblack.com
Fractal Bargain Bin
FreeImages.co.uk
FreeMediaGoo.com
freephoto
FreeRangeStock.com
FromOldBooks.org
GeekPhilosopher.com
GemsGallery.org
ImageAfter.com
ImageBase
Jeremy Mates (www.SIAL.org)
Jon Sullivan
Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
MorgueFile.com
The NOAA Library
PDphoto.org
PixelPerfectDigital
Project Gutenberg
Serif
US Geological Survey

photography via SXC.hu:
Sam
TekToNik
0nluu
a_kartha
AAD
adamci
adzica
akademie
alejadeath
alexfurr
alfredo-9
amirhd
amosnet
amylynn123
analyser
aNDesign
apoena
ArminH
arroclint
artichoc
aschaeffer
astakr
atom_balm
automatic
b4073
Baltar
beanphone
bebobaloui
belaradio
belle_18
Bencogee
bend02
bepanda
Biscione
bkeim
BloodlessR
Bongani
borge
bouts
brakke15
BSM
bubor
cadar
cagdelhi
caseywong
catalina77
cbek60
cdw0107
ceriberi
chris2k
Chrissies
chrisskett
cindy555
ckvkarma
clafouti
Claudiu_M
cleomedesHieroglyphs
clix
colinj
comx
CraigToocheck
cremy
crenok
csix
cwsillero
cyberpop
cyrill
danjaeger
danzo08
datarec
defret
delbonete
delphinems
desingh
devochka
dickyd
dilivion
DinosG
dipaolg
djinas
djj33kf
djkosor
dlee
Dokuman
domantasj
dpaessler
Drez
EdwinP
el_davo
ela23
elektron
equidem
eXis
f0t083
finty
float
fresh-m
frizzylee
ge-ge
genildo
Gennius
gianco941
GiulioGrasso
GoldDuck
gossamerLL
gpaterson
greekgod
greenboy
gt1633
gul791
hde2003
heg
HenrikB
henryy
hubatsch
hugoslv
humbs
humors
Indigo6811
inside
iriann
jellox
joseas
juhabee
jwarletta
kadrip55
kearneysp
kendoll007
KERone
kjetilv
kragmel
Kutta
Lafkon
lalocordov
leonbidon
LeoSynapse
letota
lienxin
lilyr
lindeboomj
linder6580
lombs
lupico
lusi
m_constant
maavi
mailsparky
manolo
marcos_p
marsjuh_DB
masterwill
mattgyver
maxbog
maya51
mcmoe
melodi2
miax
miljan
mr_tjeerd
mrgoose
MrTim20
mterraza
n0nnahs
nazreth
ngould
nicksmits
nighthawk7
oerlikon
orangeacid
oseimay
pablitta
panton
papman
Pepuska
pixelstar
PMOS
pushbeyond
raien
remind
rghitulesc
rgvmonster
rmattoso
rottweiler
roym
rwakey
sacura
sankla1
SarahCasha
saritz33
Schlottie
sciucaness
Scyza
shiner
slonecker
smn198
soulfire82
sourire
Spencer Lindsay
spotnick
starr
StefanRubino (www.stefanrubino.de)
StefanWagner
SteveFE
sumeja
superdecor
svender
Swonson
tdgnika
tecnorama
TemporaNig
thunksalot
tigress1
tilico
timvdb
titochavi
tomatokill
Tomphoto
tracywade
trumpkin.de
tsjil
ueckermann
unit25
vancanjay
verzerk
vierdrie
viragobkny
vlada11
waqas_u
wax115
wbenson
weatherbox
weirdvis
wilhei66
winjohn
winterdove
wopstah
YaaL
Ywerd
Zela
zelee
zorko
zx

--- new for Genesis of the Gods --
416style
Akuppa
blprnt_van
~Brenda-Starr~
clairity
Cushing Memorial Library
dave_mcmt
Elsie esq.
exfordy
Jeff Pang
jon hanson
jurvetson
kate.gardiner
lepiaf.geo
notsogoodphotography
Orin Zebest
robstephaustralia
slushpup
stefg74
thelastminute
wili_hybrid

--- thanks also to ----
Tim Furnish (HungrySoftware.com)
Trumgottist
Erwin_Br
DOSBox (dosbox.sourceforge.net)
Bink & Smacker (www.radgametools.com)
ClipDiary (www.softvoile.com/clipdiary)
Crimson Editor (www.crimsoneditor.com)
Audacity sound editor (audacity.sourceforge.net)
Billy audio player (www.sheepfriends.com)
ThumbView Lite (thumbview.sourceforge.net)
Twisted Brush (www.pixara.com)
DriveZ
TreePad Lite (www.freebyte.com)

ENTER THE STORY was inspired by:
David Fox (ElectricEggplant.com)
Classics Illustrated
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (the Fantastic Four)
Henry George (Progress and Poverty)

Many thanks to all those who generously contributed their time and talent but most of all, thanks to YOU for reading.

To see this list in the game, plus full details for whatever is showing at the time, start the game and press 'C' for copyright.

If I've used your art or music and you're not listed, or if you want me to add a link or other details, please let me know.

Thanks again!

Original sources for art and music

This game is being created on a shoestring budget, and sold for a low price. Yet each game requires several hundred licensed pieces of art and music. So as far as possible I use free art and music. Which means either:

1. Public Domain (usually more than a hundred years old),
2. or anything with a Creative Commons 2.0 "attribution only" license
3. or where there is permission in writing.

I mostly use these sources:

Flickr (photography, but only Creative Commons "attribution only" can be used)
Musopen (public domain music from real orchestras)
Incompetech (all kinds of music)
Jamendo (only some is Creative Commons, but a huge selection and artists are generally very approachable)
Web Gallery of Art - for classical paintings
FromOldBooks - for old public domain pictures
Project Gutenberg - some wonderful pictures, but finding them is hard!
Freesound - for sound effects
NASA - for NASA images

royalty-free-classical-music.com - this is a commercial royalty free music site (ie. it costs money), but unlike others it has real orchestras, low prices, and no 5,000 copy limit. So it gets a special mention.

Can you help?

Do you know anywhere else that has free art and music for use in future games? If you know of any sources that I might have missed, please let me know on the blog!

But before suggesting a source for free art or music, please note:

1. Most "free" music and art is not free for commercial use.

Just because it's on the Internet (e.g. Google images), that doesn't mean it's free.

And if it is free (e.g. Internet Radio) that doesn't mean It's licensed to be copied.

And even if It's licensed (e.g. on Jamendo) that may be only for "for non-commercial use."

And even if it's OK for commercial (e.g. on Flickr when you check the "commercial use" box) it may have a "sharealike" license which means really it isn't really for commercial use.

I need to sell this game commercially to fund my research into global poverty. So the only material I can use must be clearly labelled as either (1) public domain, (2) Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution Only, or (3) permission is given in writing from the artist or composer and performer.

2. Music is a special challenge.

Even if a composer is long dead, the performers aren't and they can claim royalties. And most "royalty free" music becomes extremely expensive if more than five thousand games are produced. Five thousand may sound like a lot - surely if I sold five thousand I could afford to pay higher license fees? No, because everyone who buys one game gets all previous games free. And each game has a demo that may be downloaded thousands of times. I may only sell a few hundred copies of each story, but pretty soon the number of copies in circulation will exceed five thousand. Each story has dozens of new pieces of music. If each one needed royalty fees then soon every game sold would lose money.

Finding "free" art and music isn't as easy as it sounds!

Calling artists, photographers and musicians!

If you are a musician or artist and would be happy for your material used in a future game, I'd love to hear from you.

What's in it for you?

1. Everyone whose art or music is used will be credited in full where their material appears, plus they appear on the scrolling credits list. And on this page if you want.

2. You receive a free game of course.

3. You can choose to be featured as a character in a future game. That's a unique offer that money can't buy!

4. Your art or music is promoting classic novels

5. You get great karma and my undying gratitude

6. Plus, if the game ever covers its costs and makes a profit then I'll send a donation as thanks. But note that several hundred people contribute to the game, and the game is priced low. So it will only be a token amount. I'm sorry I can't promise more, but often the art and music that ends up in the finished game isn't the art and music I expected to use at the start. As a game is developed the story evolves and needs change.

"Where's my free game then?"

I try to remember everyone, but I'm only human. And the game has been under developement for years, and sometimes email addresses change. If you contributed art or music and you haven't received a free game, please let me know on the blog.

Does anyone know Piotr Pawlowski?

There is one piece of music that I used without a proper license. It's 'Desiderium' by Piotr Pawlowski. On Jamendo it's only licensed for "sharealike" and that doesn't cover my game. But as far as I can tell Mr Pawloski would probably give me permission if I could contact him. The link in Jamendo didn't work. I tried Googling his name, and emailed everyone I could, but with no luck. Piotr, if you're reading this, could you get in touch? If you don't want me to use the music I'll take it out, but it's appeared on so many Creative Commons web sites and it's such a beautiful piece. Thanks.