Credits
Who made what you see
The Red Thread is built from stand-in art, music and fonts by other authors, to be replaced with original work. This page names the author and licence of everything from it that appears on this site, in the screenshots, the videos and the page backgrounds.
Characters
Sprites by LinXueLian, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. They were composited from layers, recoloured, cropped and resized for The Red Thread, and the modified sprites are shared under the same licence. They appear in most of the game's screenshots and in every video.
| Character | Work | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Su Qinglan, Xiaotao, Auntie Wang; one of the couple's silhouettes in the river lanterns picture | Custom VN Character: FBFFFM001 Fullbody Girl, with the Base Body, Yuelan Maiden, Taiyakina Eyes and Adora Hair packs | Composited from layers into three characters and their expressions, cropped to three-quarter length, upscaled; Qinglan reduced to a rim-lit silhouette for the event picture. |
| Lu Wenjing's side portrait; the other silhouette in the river lanterns picture | VN Character: Murong Yi (Xianxia), Gold Sect pack | Robe recoloured to a scholar's blue-green, cropped to head and shoulders; reduced to a rim-lit silhouette for the event picture. |
| Yue Lao, as a moonlit silhouette in the prologue, the opening movie and behind the menu screens | VN Character: NPC Old Man (Xianxia Wuxia), Red pack | Cropped, scaled, and filled to an ink-blue silhouette with a pale rim. |
Backgrounds and event pictures
| Seen in | Work and author | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| The prologue, the opening movie, the menu screens; this site's front-page background | Lotus Lake (05), from Xuanhuan Mood Art by willYEE | CC0 1.0 (licence text) |
| The plum grove; the night bridge at the Lantern Festival and this site's closing background | Peach Blossom Stream (22), from Xuanhuan Mood Art by willYEE; for the night bridge, mirrored, cropped, regraded to night, with a painted moon glow and drawn lanterns | CC0 1.0 |
| The river lanterns picture | Star River Boat (23), from Xuanhuan Mood Art by willYEE, with drawn river lanterns and the silhouettes credited above | CC0 1.0; the silhouettes CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The main menu, the teahouse, the market, the Lantern Festival street, the wedding hall | Images from the free samplers of the Ancient China Wuxia Asset Mega Pack, vol. 1 (lantern night market at sunset and at night) and vol. 3 (pleasure hall interior, main street by day, opera playhouse interior), by u8888u; the playhouse repainted as a wedding hall | u8888u sampler licence, which allows use in a game and in its promotional material. Shown here only within screenshots. |
| Resting the qin, waiting for the moon | Woman in Garden Playing Chin (停琴待月, 1827) by Gai Qi (改琦), Honolulu Museum of Art; cropped and set on an extension of its silk | Public domain |
Xuanhuan Mood Art and the u8888u images are AI-assisted works.
Interface, icon and opening movie
| Asset | Author | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| The Red Thread's dialogue window, name tab, choice and menu buttons, save slots, and the red knot icon, which is also this site's icon | Made for The Red Thread | CC0 1.0 |
| The opening movie, seen at the start of the first video | Made for The Red Thread from the lotus lake, the Yue Lao silhouette and the lantern market at sunset credited above, lettered in Ma Shan Zheng and EB Garamond | Inherits the licences of those works |
Fonts
| Font | Where | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| EB Garamond, by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo | The game's English text, and this site's text | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| LXGW WenKai Lite, by LXGW | The game's Chinese text | |
| Ma Shan Zheng, by the Ma Shan Zheng Project Authors | The game's titles and headings, and this site's numerals | |
| Noto Serif SC, by Google | This site's Chinese text |
This site's fonts are served by Google Fonts.
Everything else
The Divooka examples' own art (the Moon Festival lanterns, bridge and characters) was painted by the recipe that wrote the example, and the coloured panels and silhouettes in the smaller examples are Novella's placeholders. The node graph pictures are drawn by dvkview from the example documents. Novella, Divooka, the examples and this site are the work of Methodox Technologies, Inc.
The videos on this site are silent, so none of The Red Thread's music or sound effects is used here.