CREDITS & ATTRIBUTIONS
Namesake
Named for the blog post “Civ Pro: The Gathering”.
Design inspiration
Papers, Please (Lucas Pope / 3909 LLC) — the primary design comp, cited throughout the specs. Slay the Spire (Mega Crit) and Ascension (Stone Blade Entertainment) for the deckbuilder bones.
Sound
All audio is CC0 (public domain dedication). Full record with download dates: sounds/MANIFEST.md.
| Sound | Used for | Author | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stamp-thunk.ogg | action committed | Kenney | Kenney Impact Sounds | CC0 |
| gavel.ogg | verdict | Kenney | Kenney Impact Sounds | CC0 |
| slip-slap.ogg | sanction slip | Kenney | Kenney Impact Sounds | CC0 |
| typewriter-ding.ogg | deadline warning | Kenney | Kenney Interface Sounds | CC0 |
| clock-tick.ogg | day advancing | Kenney | Kenney Interface Sounds | CC0 |
| success-chime.ogg | optimal verdict | Kenney | Kenney Interface Sounds | CC0 |
| pencil-scratch.ogg | paralegal note | Kenney | Kenney Interface Sounds | CC0 |
| paper-slide.mp3 | situation arrives | Pipelenisf | Freesound #560352 | CC0 |
| paper-shuffle.mp3 | leafing pages | HarpyHarpHarp | Freesound #449127 | CC0 |
| drawer-open.mp3 | opening the archive | lartti | Freesound #527583 | CC0 |
Music
Full record: music/MANIFEST.md.
| Track | Used for | Title / Author | Source | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| desk-ambience.mp3 | drill focus loop | “Contemplation” — Joth | OpenGameArt | CC0 |
| deadline-tension.mp3 | clock running short | “Pulse” — SRG774 | OpenGameArt | CC0 |
| menu-theme.mp3 | the desk | “Constancy Part Three” — Kevin MacLeod | incompetech.com | CC BY 4.0 |
| verdict-sting.mp3 | session complete | “Victory” — SRG774 | OpenGameArt | CC0 |
“Constancy Part Three” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0.
Names
Fictional parties, counsel, and paralegals draw from the scientist/engineer surname list of Docker’s names-generator (Apache-2.0), plus historical judges and attorneys of the American and English bars. All characters are fictional; any resemblance to actual litigation is the point.
Source material
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, U.S. Code, C.F.R., and MPEP are works of the United States government — public domain. The FRE shelf volume extracts its verbatim rule text from the CALI / eLangdell open-license edition of the Federal Rules of Evidence, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; only the public-domain rule text is shelved (none of CALI’s copyrighted annotations), and post-2017 amendments (FRE 106, 702, 807) are authored from the public-domain rule and flagged inline. Quasi-law reference inventory: content/reference/library-sources.md. Real cases in Classic Cases and the Case Library are reconstructed from public-record filings and published opinions, cited in-file.
The Reference Shelf’s 14 black-letter statements of The Sedona Principles, Third Edition, 19 Sedona Conf. J. 1 (2018), are quoted for study purposes only. The accompanying commentary is copyrighted by The Sedona Conference and is not reproduced here — the full publication is free at thesedonaconference.org.