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+# Ely and the Crab
+
+A game by [kwarel](https://kwarel.itch.io/) and [ashpie](https://ashpie.com) (was Arisu).
+
+It was made during the itch.io weekly game jam 162 (theme: Crabs).
+
+## Licenses
+
+- All 2D images are made by [kwarel](https://kwarel.itch.io/) © 2020 and are licensed under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
+- The following sound assets are made by [ashpie](https://ashpie.com) © 2020 and are licensed under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/):
+  - Main title music (sounds/main_title.ogg)
+  - Dialog letter by letter sound effets (sounds/gibberish.wav, sounds/gibberish2.wav)
+  - Herbert sound effects and theme music (sounds/herbert*.ogg)
+- All dialogs are made by [kwarel](https://kwarel.itch.io/) and [ashpie](https://ashpie.com) © 2020 and are licensed under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
+- All code (including scripts), godot scenes and godot project files are licensed under [GPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+- Fonts used in this project are public domains (we did not make any of those)
+- We also use two songs by Chris Zabriskie and a sound effect that we picked on splice for the campfire