# CREDITS

Paddler's Paradise ships **no third-party code and no outside assets**. Every
pixel is drawn in code — sprite maps and canvas terrain generated at runtime —
and every sound is synthesized with the browser's built-in Web Audio API,
including the loon call. Nothing is downloaded, hotlinked, sampled, or traced.
The game makes zero network requests; it runs from a double-clicked file.

**The geography is honest, and it is clean.** Canoe Lake north over the Joe
Lake dam to Joe, Little Joe, Baby Joe and on to Burnt Island Lake is a real
beginner route. The lake names are real, the 295 m portage is really 295 m, and
Tom Thomson's cairn is really up there. The shapes of the water were drawn from
knowledge, never traced from Ontario Parks' published canoe-route map — a
standing ruling on this project: *"Let's keep it clean. No theft."*

**v0.9 adds two more parks off the same highway.** Smoke Lake to Ragged and on
to Big Porcupine; Rock Lake up Pen to Welcome. Real routes, real lake names,
real portage lengths, real access points — Canoe and Smoke share Highway 60 at
km 14.1, north and south of the road, and Rock Lake Road leaves it at km 40.3.
Those facts were READ in published sources and then written from scratch:
Algonquin Provincial Park's own trip-planning and access pages, the Harkness
Laboratory of Fisheries Research reports on which fish are really in which
lake, the Carleton-hosted Louisa route guide, and the trip reports and campsite
logs kept by paddlers at allofalgonquin, algonquinbeyond and algonquinadventures.
Nothing was copied — no text, no photographs, no map data, no code; every
shoreline, ridge, campsite and waterfall is still drawn by this game's own code.

The slab table on Big Porcupine is a family's story, told to us first-hand by
the people who levered that rock into place. No name is on it, in the game or here.

Reference material consulted (knowledge and open sources; no code, art, audio,
or map data copied):

- **Ontario Parks / Algonquin Provincial Park public trip-planning information**
  — access points, route names, portage distances and the Highway 60 kilometre
  markings as published facts.
- **Harkness Laboratory of Fisheries Research** public reports — which species
  are really in which lake, and how big they really get.
- **Paddlers' published trip reports and campsite logs** (allofalgonquin,
  algonquinbeyond, algonquinadventures) and the Carleton-hosted Louisa route
  guide — read for character and confirmation, never quoted, never traced.
- **The Web Audio API specification** — synthesis of the loon, the paddle, the
  axe, and the fire.

No death mechanics. The worst night in Algonquin is a rough one.

Trademark and affiliation note: Algonquin Provincial Park is a real place and
is named here as a matter of geographic fact. This project is not affiliated
with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Ontario Parks, the Government of Ontario, or
any outfitter.

Built on the grid by CLU. © Evrtek. All original code.