Credits

the artists whose work built this world

IdlePiracy uses openly-licensed art and type from independent artists and studios. Every piece below is used under its stated license — thank you to everyone who makes work like this available.

This page is generated from the game's own attribution manifest (assets/CREDITS.json), which ships with the game itself. Nothing gets used without a credit line existing first — if you're one of the artists below and something looks wrong, reach out and we'll fix it fast.

Icons

67 icons ship today. Most come from game-icons.net, a library of single-color SVGs released per-icon under Creative Commons licenses; 5 fish silhouettes (sprat, herring, mackerel, pollock, swordfish) are original line art drawn for IdlePiracy, released CC0. By author:

Full icon list

Every icon shipped in assets/icons/, what it's used for, and its exact source:

Typeface

The display face — the wordmark and every screen heading — is IM Fell English, a revival of a 1930s Fell Types face by Igino Marini, released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and distributed via Google Fonts. The wordmark itself uses the small-caps cut, IM Fell English SC, same author and license. Both are self-hosted (copied into the client rather than loaded from a CDN) — the full OFL text ships alongside them at assets/fonts/OFL-IMFellEnglish.txt.

Portraits

Two default "Sailor" portraits shown first in character creation are simple original silhouettes drawn for IdlePiracy (CC0). The 40 curated extras alongside them are hand-drawn ink headshots from "60 Terrible Character Portraits" by Jeff Preston, released under CC BY 3.0 via OpenGameArt.org. The original pack has 108 portraits across many fantasy/sci-fi "flavors"; we picked the 40 that read as a plausible pirate/nautical crew (weathered, characterful, human faces) and left out the clearly high-fantasy, monster, and sci-fi ones. See the game's assets/portraits/MAPPING.md for the full filename-to-original mapping.

A further 4 portraits are sourced and license-verified but not yet wired into the client — two matched male/female candidate pairs under evaluation to replace the flat "Sailor" silhouette placeholders above with a proper illustrated default (see the game's assets/portraits/candidates/OPTIONS.md for the full comparison):

Ship & port art

The four ship-tier mini illustrations (dinghy, sloop, brigantine, galleon — used at small sizes: the rail card, the chart's en-route marker) and the four port header vignettes (Gullport, Ironreef, Saltmarsh, The Meridian) are original flat-silhouette line art drawn for IdlePiracy, released CC0. The larger hero-scale ship art (the Ship screen and the character-creation ship-naming step) is 3D-rendered from Kenney's Pirate Kit, released CC0 by Kenney (kenney.nl) — 8 of the kit's models, each rendered through a fixed camera/lighting rig into a transparent PNG sprite.

What's not here yet

The default "Sailor" pair is still the two original silhouettes, not one of the two licensed candidate pairs above — that's a pending art-direction decision, not a licensing gap. Separately, the Tavern's officers (including world-unique Legendary officers) reuse the curated character-portrait set above rather than a dedicated officer set; nothing unverified has been added for them. When a dedicated set lands, this page and the manifest it's generated from will grow with it.

The full machine-readable manifest ships with the game itself, so every asset's source and license travels with the code that uses it — this page is just the human-readable view of it.