Giving proper credit to AGS authors in your game

[edmundito]

Hey game authors, sorry if this sounds ranty:

Over the past year, I have noticed that in-game credits for AGS continue to be credited solely to Chris Jones. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to CJ, who worked on the project for approximately fifteen years. But since 2011 (fourteen years ago!), several authors have maintained and improved the code, with most of the contributions by @Crimson Wizard, @eri0o, @JJS, @sonneveld, and @morganw. We have the most robust engine today thanks to much of their work.

In any case, the full credits are available in the manual:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Credits.html

I would recommend crediting in a couple of ways:

The short and brief way by using the copyright notice:

Created with Adventure Game Studio (AGS)
Copyright (c) 1999-2011 Chris Jones and 2011-2025 various contributors

Remember when Photoshop used to credit everyone on the splash screen? Go to the credits page in the AGS manual, copy everyone's name, and put them in the credits. Example:

Created with
Adventure Game Studio (AGS)
Alan Van Drake, Benjamin Penney, Benoit Pierre, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer,
Cameron Cawley, Chris Jones, Cristian Morales Vega, Dominik Mierzejewski
Donovan Watteau, Edmundo Ruiz Ghanem, Edward Rudd, Erico Vieira Porto,
Ferdinand Thiessen, Francesco Ariis, Gilad Shaham, HomeLight Games,
Ivan Mogilko, James Duong, Janet Gilbert, Jochen Schleu, Joe Lee,
John Steele Scott, Martin Sedlak, Matthew Gambrell, mausimus,
Michael Rittenhouse, Morgan Willcock, Nick Sonneveld, Ori Avtalion,
Pablo Navarro, Paul Wilkinson, Per Olav Flaten, Peter Bouillon,
Piotr Wieczorek, rofl0r, Ryan O'Connor, Scott Baker, Shane Stevens,
Shawn R. Walker, Stefano Collavini, Steve McCrea, Steven Poulton,
Sunit Das, Thierry Crozat, Tobias Hansen, Tom Vandepoele,
Tzach Shabtay, and Walter Agazzi

Up to you!

Finally, give special thanks to those in the community who helped with your game's development.

[Cassiebsg]

I usualy use the short version, didn't know there was a long version. Now I do.

[Dave Gilbert]

THIS IS A FANTASTIC RESOURCE! Thank you. To you and every person on that list.

[Kastchey]

Thanks for pointing us to the credits page! I would normally use something like "originally by Chris Jones, further developed and maintained by Crimson Wizard and a team of dedicated contributors", but it's a great suggestion to use the full list.

[CaptainD]

Thanks for this. I plan to use the full list, as I think everyone who's contributed deserves to be recognised for their amazing efforts.

[Sinitrena]

In any case, the full credits are available in the manual:
https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/Credits.html

It's good to know where to find them (should I ever release a game again) but I was wondering if they are anywhere on the main website, and if they are not, maybe they should be. A logical place would be the About page (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/about/), at least that's where I would start to look for something like that.

[Danvzare]

Thank you for the list. This will be a big help in the future. (Especially since I usually just ended using something akin to the short version before.)

[Rik_Vargard]

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