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In addition to our [[Help:Contents|Help hub]], you can visit the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] website - the platform this wiki is built on. It has extensive guides and tutorials on how to use and contribute to a MediaWiki wiki.
 
In addition to our [[Help:Contents|Help hub]], you can visit the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] website - the platform this wiki is built on. It has extensive guides and tutorials on how to use and contribute to a MediaWiki wiki.
  
==No formal peer review==
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==No Formal Peer Review==
  
 
Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:RecentChanges|Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages|Special:NewPages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Frictional Games Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.
 
Our active community of editors uses tools such as the [[Special:RecentChanges|Special:RecentChanges]] and [[Special:NewPages|Special:NewPages]] feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Frictional Games Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.
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'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''
 
'''None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.'''
  
==No contract; limited license==
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==No Contract; Limited License==
  
 
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Frictional Games Wiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of Frictional Games Wiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
 
Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Frictional Games Wiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of Frictional Games Wiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.
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Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Frictional Games Wiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Frictional Games Wiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Frictional Games Wiki and Wikimedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Frictional Games Wiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
 
Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Frictional Games Wiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Frictional Games Wiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Frictional Games Wiki and Wikimedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Frictional Games Wiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.
  
==Personality rights==
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==Personality Rights==
  
 
Frictional Games Wiki may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights personality rights], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.
 
Frictional Games Wiki may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights personality rights], independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.
  
==Jurisdiction and legality of content==
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==Jurisdiction and Legality of Content==
  
 
Publication of information found in Frictional Games Wiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Frictional Games Wiki database is stored on servers in Sweden, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Frictional Games Wiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.
 
Publication of information found in Frictional Games Wiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Frictional Games Wiki database is stored on servers in Sweden, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Frictional Games Wiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.
  
==Not professional advice==
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==Not Professional Advice==
  
 
If you need specific advice (for example, general game development, game financing and such), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.
 
If you need specific advice (for example, general game development, game financing and such), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

Revision as of 18:51, 23 August 2020

Alert icon.png Warning: Frictional Games Wiki makes no guarantee of validity.

The Frictional Games Wiki is an online open-content collaborative resource; that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of the HPL engines. The platform allows anyone to alter its content, so please treat it as an open forum. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information on the Frictional Games Wiki; most of the time you will. However, Frictional Games Wiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed or vandalized. This excludes protected articles written by Frictional Games staff.

This wiki aims to be:

  • The definitive and most comprehensive source of information on using the HPL Engine and all of its iterations.
  • A place for users to contribute their own ideas, tutorials, tools, as well as discuss them.
Note icon.png Click here if you wish to visit the old wiki. Note that the old wiki is no longer maintained and exists only for archival purposes.

Help

In addition to our Help hub, you can visit the MediaWiki website - the platform this wiki is built on. It has extensive guides and tutorials on how to use and contribute to a MediaWiki wiki.

No Formal Peer Review

Our active community of editors uses tools such as the Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages feeds to monitor new and changing content. However, Frictional Games Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

None of the contributors, sponsors, administrators or anyone else connected with Wikipedia in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

No Contract; Limited License

Please make sure that you understand that the information provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the owners or users of this site, the owners of the servers upon which it is housed, the individual Frictional Games Wiki contributors, any project administrators, sysops or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extracontractual liability on the part of Frictional Games Wiki or any of its agents, members, organizers or other users.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and Frictional Games Wiki regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL); neither is anyone at Wikipedia responsible should someone change, edit, modify or remove any information that you may post on Wikipedia or any of its associated projects.

Trademarks

Any of the trademarks, service marks, collective marks, design rights or similar rights that are mentioned, used or cited in the articles of the Frictional Games Wiki are the property of their respective owners. Their use here does not imply that you may use them for any purpose other than for the same or a similar informational use as contemplated by the original authors of these Frictional Games Wiki articles under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licensing schemes. Unless otherwise stated Frictional Games Wiki and Wikimedia sites are neither endorsed by nor affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such Frictional Games Wiki cannot grant any rights to use any otherwise protected materials. Your use of any such or similar incorporeal property is at your own risk.

Personality Rights

Frictional Games Wiki may contain material which may portray an identifiable person who is alive or deceased recently. The use of images of living or recently deceased individuals is, in some jurisdictions, restricted by laws pertaining to personality rights, independent from their copyright status. Before using these types of content, please ensure that you have the right to use it under the laws which apply in the circumstances of your intended use. You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.

Jurisdiction and Legality of Content

Publication of information found in Frictional Games Wiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. The Frictional Games Wiki database is stored on servers in Sweden, and is maintained in reference to the protections afforded under local and federal law. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. Frictional Games Wiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce or republish the information contained herein.

Not Professional Advice

If you need specific advice (for example, general game development, game financing and such), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

No pages on the Frictional Games Wiki provide legal advice.

For questions towards Frictional Games, please use the contact form on the official website.

For questions about privacy, please refer to the Frictional Games Privacy Policy.

Additional information

Visit Frictional Games' official website for more information about the studio itself.