Frequently Asked Questions about Transfusion
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Why are you doing this?
Transfusion is intended to be the best thing next to getting the source code for Blood
(see The Blood Source Release Campaign).
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Why are you using a Quake1 engine instead of Half-Life2, Doom3, or some other game engine?
In a word: FREEDOM. The Quake1 engine source code is free to the public!
Almost all other game platforms have what is known as an S.D.K. (software development kit) which gives
you limited (but often more than sufficient) access to the game code, and no access to the game engine.
This means that if we had chosen Half-Life for instance, only those who owned that game would be able
to play it. Transfusion is available to anyone who wishes it, whether or not they own Quake.
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Aren't you breaking laws by using Blood's art and design?
NOPE :) Monolith Productions and Infogrames owns all intellectual property rights to the Blood franchise.
Jason Hall, the Monolith's CEO, has given us his blessing and we've even received help from Matt Saettler
and Nick Newhard who lead the original Blood development team. As far as Atari (Infogrames Inc), who claim
ownership of the Blood trademark, they have agreed to leave us alone given the non-commercial status of
our project, mostly as long as our project name doesn't refer directly to the Blood trademark. That's why
this project is called "Transfusion" (you may have heard about us as "qBlood" or "BloodBath" previously).
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Can my mod use Transfusion's models, artwork, and/or sounds?
While the engine Transfusion uses is open source, the data included for the game is not. Keep in mind that,
as we mentioned earlier, we have an agreement with Atari (Infogrames Inc) to use their intellectual property
which does not extend beyond our single project. However, some of our work can be used with permission
and appropriate credit. Please ask before including work from the Transfusion project in other mods or games.
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Will you be recreating the WHOLE game?
Eventually... but for now we are working on just the Multiplayer part of Blood. That way we can play it
quicker, while getting the majority of the single player game's functionality at the same time.
When the time comes however, we will be tackling the single player levels one episode at a time,
including the Plasma Pak and Cryptic Passage.
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How do I....?
Everything you need to know about Transfusion should be included in the distribution. Please read
the information we provide before asking us how to use the secondary fire mode or how to turn on
the weapons cheats. If you want to know how to die real fast, type "skill 3" in the console
and load up BB3 with 8 or more bots :)
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