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  phpRPG README

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  Description

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    A web-based multi-player fantasy role-playing game.





  About phpRPG

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    In an effort to make phpRPG installable on standard web servers to

    date, the game engine is aimed to be written in PHP and MySQL only.



    You are invited to participate in the continuous development of phpRPG.

    Visit our irc channel or e-mail me directly if you are interested.



    For more information and up-to-date news regarding phpRPG, visit:



      http://phpRPG.org/  OR  http://phprpg.sourceforge.net/



    The latest file releases can also be found at SourceForge.net:



      http://sourceforge.net/projects/phprpg/



    If you like phpRPG or are using phpRPG, I will be very grateful if you

    can drop me an e-mail and place a link on your website to my project.



    Thank you for downloading phpRPG.



    Enjoy!! :)



    Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Timothy TS Chung <ttschung@users.sourceforge.net>





  Open Source

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    phpRPG is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

    (at your option) any later version.



    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

    GNU General Public License for more details.



    The GNU General Public License can be found in 'LICENSE' file.





  Server-side Requirements

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    > PHP - compilation requires GD support

    > MySQL database





  Client-side Requirement

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    > Web-browser with JavaScript / CSS / PNG support (mainly IE oriented)





  Installation

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    The latest distribution of phpRPG can be found at:



      http://phprpg.sourceforge.net/



    Please refer to 'INSTALL' file for installation procedures.





  Help and Contact

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    > Chat Room:

    	irc.freenode.net::6667  #phpRPG



    > Mailing Lists:

    	http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=29487



    > Bug Reporting:

    	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29487&atid=396419



    > Feature Requests:

    	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29487&atid=396422





  Credits

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    Merchant Empires and its related development, although is set in a

    totally different context, has inspired me greatly. Check out:



      Merchant Empires

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/merchempires/



      Open Merchant Empires Project

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/openme/



    Acknowledgments to those who have supported and helped the growth of

    this project, in particular:



    > Michael Yarbrough

    > Rob Norman

    > Michael Wigley





  Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Timothy TS Chung <ttschung@users.sourceforge.net>