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  About the AATRADE project
  Updated on February 1, 2004

Alien Assault Traders is an online, web-based, turn-based strategy space trading game forked off the source of both BlackNova Traders (BNT) and Nova Gaming System (NGS) and inspired by the popular BBS game of TradeWars. Alien Assault Traders derived from NGS. In playing NGS we felt that the game we wanted to play was a different direction than what the author of NGS was going. We forked off NGS and derived the new game that we now call Alien Assault Traders.

Our goal was to create a game that was fast paced, with a high level of variety and options, very balanced and have a way where with enough strategy, planning and good team play, any body could be at the top of the rankings.

AATRADE, BNT and NGS are copyrighted by each of the developers listed below, for each of their respective contributions, and placed under the trust of the lead developers (Rick Thomson and Mark Dickenson respectively for AATRADE).

Both games are placed under the protection of the Gnu Public License, which among other things guarantees the right of others to modify both games, as long as all changes are shared publicly, as these games have been.

If you have any licensing concerns or questions, please feel free to contact
Rick Thomson.

The developers for AATRADE are:

Rick Thomson - Tarnus
Mark Dickenson - Panama Jack

The following people have helped with bug fixes, code submissions and templates for AATraders and we would like to thank them for that help.

Fantaz - Many Bug Fixes
Creeperman - Code Submissions
Kelly Shane Harrelson - Spiral Galaxy Code
Marco Bolzoni (Excite) - Italian Language Translation
WeirDave - Dice Graphic for Maps



The developers for NGS are:

Meelis Saluvee
MaS-TaZ
L. Patrick Smallwood
Andreas Kreisl
Ibon Lopez
Brian Gustin



The developers for the original code (BNT) at the time of the fork were:

Alien Squid
Scott Parish
Adam Voigt
Justin Wright
Beniot Bousquet
Bob Haylock
David Polenychko
Nathan Howard
Chris Jones
Danny Froberg
Dave Ronson
David Schneider
David Sharp
Kristopher Wall
Richard Gowen
Rog Gyruss
Ron Harwood
Ian Koenig
Adrian Wright
Michael Mosier
Nicolas Crovatti
Dave Rowlands
Richard Stocks
Daniel Nash
Sarcasmo
Marc-Andre Fortier
Paul Kirby
Philippe Gamache
Michael Scalet
Alex Bruckert
Chua Zhi Hon
Zot O'Connor


Thank for your interest in our project, and if you have any questions, feel free to join the forums.

- Tarnus
AATRADE lead developer

 © 2003-2004 by the Alien Assault Traders developers. All rights reserved.