fungus/Docs/fungus_docs/about_fungus.md

# About %Fungus # {#about_fungus}
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# What is Fungus? # {#what_is_fungus}

%Fungus is a tool which makes it easy to add colourful characters and craft gripping storylines in your game, even if you have never used <a href="http://unity3d.com" target="_blank">Unity</a> before. Our intuitive interface lets everyone create beautiful story games easily - <b>for free and with no coding</b>!

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# Who's it for? # {#whos_it_for}
%Fungus is popular with writers, illustrators, animators and game designers, especially visual novel & interactive fiction authors. Many people using %Fungus are creating games in Unity for the very first time. It is a popular choice for game jams and game design courses.

# Free & Open Source # {#open_source}

We believe that interactive storytelling should be accessible to everyone, so %Fungus is <b>100% free & open source</b>. It works great with both the free and pro versions of Unity 3D. %Fungus is inspired by other great open source storytelling tools like [Twine], [Ren'Py] and [Scratch].

# Community # {#community}

The %Fungus community is very welcoming and helpful to newcomers. Many people using %Fungus have never used Unity or even made a game before, so feel free to ask questions on our [community forum]. Helping other people with their questions is a fantastic and very welcome way to contribute back to the community.

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# Features # {#features}

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%Fungus allows you to easily add storytelling features to your Unity games with no coding, via an intuitive visual scripting system.

- Suitable for making visual novels, RPGs, hidden object, puzzle and interactive fiction games.
- Flowchart-based character dialogue
- Internationalization of your character dialogue.
- Easy control of sprites, camera and audio to help tell your story
- Works for both 2D and 3D Unity games
- Integrates easily with other Unity code and simple to extend.
- Powerful Lua scripting support for more experienced users
- 100% free and open source

# Contribute # {#contribute}

We welcome all sorts of contributions to %Fungus. You can report bugs, suggest new features, contribute source code, write an article, help answer questions on the forums or even just tell your friends about the project!

- Issue Tracker: [GitHub issue tracker]
- Source Code: [GitHub code repository]

# Credits # {#credits}

[Chris Gregan] is the main author and maintainer of %Fungus. He's co-founder of [Snozbot], along with [John O' Kane] and [Ronan Pearce].

[Dr. Matt Smith] has kindly contributed the written documentation for the %Fungus project. If you're new to Unity development then a great source of information, ideas and sample projects is his [Unity 5.x Cookbook], by Matt and [Chico Queiroz].

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[Paul Mc Grath] is Animator / Designer / Film-maker at Whackala. He contributed the [tutorial videos] for this site as well as creating the [%Fungus Training Course]. Special thanks also to [Vicky Lee] and [Coding Grace] who have helped us to organise loads of %Fungus workshops,

%Fungus wouldn't be possible without all the awesome people in our community who have contributed to the project and supported us in myriad ways. Thank you all!

# License # {#license}

The %Fungus software is licensed under the [Open Source MIT License].

The %Fungus documentation is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License].

[Snozbot]: http://snozbot.com
[Chris Gregan]: http://twitter.com/gofungus
[John O' Kane]: https://twitter.com/johnokane
[Ronan Pearce]: https://twitter.com/ronanpearce
[Vicky Lee]: https://twitter.com/whykay
[Paul Mc Grath]: http://whackala.com
[Coding Grace]: https://www.codinggrace.com
[tutorial videos]: tutorial_videos/index.md
[%Fungus Training Course]: training_course/index.md
[FungusGames.com]: http://www.fungusgames.com
[community forum]: http://fungusgames.com/forum
[Twine]: http://twinery.org
[Ren'Py]: https://www.renpy.org
[Scratch]: https://scratch.mit.edu
[GitHub issue tracker]: https://github.com/snozbot/fungus/issues
[GitHub code repository]: https://github.com/snozbot/fungus
[Dr. Matt Smith]: https://github.com/dr-matt-smith/
[Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
[Open Source MIT License]: https://github.com/snozbot/fungus/blob/master/LICENSE
[Unity 5.x Cookbook]: https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-5x-cookbook
[Chico Queiroz]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chicoqueiroz

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[img fungus_town]: ./about/fungus_town.png
[img cookbook]: ./about/B03899_MockupCover_Cookbook.jpg