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	; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.		; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.

	; Survey System : A system I built for tracking feedback from users. This includes anyone from convention visitors to play testers or beta testers. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking ~~development on~~ Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.		; Survey System : A system I built for tracking feedback from users. This includes anyone from convention visitors to play testers or beta testers. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking feedback for Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.

	; Task Tracker : A system I built for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking development on Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.		; Task Tracker : A system I built for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking development for Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.

	; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.		; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.

NerdOfEpic: /* Documentation */

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	; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.		; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.

	; ~~[https~~:~~//mantisbt~~.~~org Mantis Bug~~ Tracker] : A system for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. At the ~~beginning~~ of ~~the project making tickets for everything proved to be more work than it was worth because I was constantly hopping between tasks and concepts. Later~~ on ~~in the project it was very helpful for keeping track of things I wanted to revisit~~.		; Survey System : A system I built for tracking feedback from users. This includes anyone from convention visitors to play testers or beta testers. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking development on Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.

			; Task Tracker : A system I built for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. This tool was created for the specific purpose of tracking development on Pixel Refraction Studio, LLC projects.

	; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.		; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.

NerdOfEpic: /* Documentation */

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	= Documentation =		= Documentation =
			; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.

	; [https://mantisbt.org Mantis Bug Tracker] : A system for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. At the beginning of the project making tickets for everything proved to be more work than it was worth because I was constantly hopping between tasks and concepts. Later on in the project it was very helpful for keeping track of things I wanted to revisit.		; [https://mantisbt.org Mantis Bug Tracker] : A system for tracking development tasks and bugs. For those with other development experience, think of Jira or GitHub Issues. At the beginning of the project making tickets for everything proved to be more work than it was worth because I was constantly hopping between tasks and concepts. Later on in the project it was very helpful for keeping track of things I wanted to revisit.

	; [https://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] : A wildly powerful wiki system that you're looking at right now. I needed a place to describe things to both the public and myself while I was figuring out the design of Fracterebus.

	; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.		; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.

NerdOfEpic at 23:40, 1 May 2026

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-Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators and tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Every single tool in this list is free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game. Web hosting and storefronts are obviously not free. At this time, no software or services in this list sponsor me in any way.
+Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators. Those folks use all sorts of tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Most of the tools in this list are free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game. Web hosting and storefronts are obviously not free. At this time, no software or services in this list sponsor me in any way.
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 ; [https://www.audacityteam.org Audacity] : Used for creating and modifying audio for both sound effects and background music. I am absolutely not a musically inclined person, but I can recognize a good tool when I use it.
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 = Internationalization =
 ; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : I can't claim this project is fully AI-Free because of internationalization. There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.

NerdOfEpic: /* Internationalization */

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	; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.		; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : I can't claim this project is fully AI-Free because of internationalization. There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.

	= Business =		= Business =

NerdOfEpic at 21:00, 26 March 2026

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	Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators and tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Every single tool in this list is free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game. Web hosting and storefronts are obviously not free.		Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators and tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Every single tool in this list is free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game. Web hosting and storefronts are obviously not free. At this time, no software or services in this list sponsor me in any way.

	= Core Development =		= Core Development =
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	= Internationalization =		= Internationalization =
	; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.		; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.

			= Business =
			; [https://www.legalzoom.com LegalZoom] : When it was time to create an actual company, I used LegalZoom to help set it up and to help manage the itchier parts of keeping the documentation up to date.

			; [https://www.gnucash.org GnuCash] : I keep track of the money side of the business (Pixel Refraction Studio LLC) with this software.

NerdOfEpic: /* Documentation */

2026-02-18T19:11:32Z

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	; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.		; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.

	; [https://www.nfoservers.com NFO Servers] : This is my web hosting provider. I've been administrating my own dedicated Linux server with them for over a decade and highly recommend them ~~to anyone that~~ needs a server. This server hosts the Wiki, Blog, Main Site, and Bug Tracker.		; [https://www.nfoservers.com NFO Servers] : This is my web hosting provider. I've been administrating my own dedicated Linux server with them for over a decade and highly recommend them. If your project needs a server, check them out. This server hosts the Wiki, Blog, Main Site, and Bug Tracker.

	= Internationalization =		= Internationalization =
	; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.		; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.

NerdOfEpic at 19:09, 18 February 2026

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	Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators and tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Every single ~~entry~~ in this list is free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game.		Any game is a massive undertaking that requires skilled creators and tools to do that creating. This is the list of tools I used for Fracterebus. It may not be what you want to use in the end, but I provided it in case it's helpful for you. Every single tool in this list is free, a fair few are open source, and all of them have license terms that I was comfortable using for the creation of a commercial game. Web hosting and storefronts are obviously not free.

	= Core Development =		= Core Development =

NerdOfEpic at 19:07, 18 February 2026

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	; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.		; [https://wordpress.org WordPress] : Blogging software used for the development/news [https://blog.fracterebus.com blog] for Fracterebus. I never really found a theme I liked very much, but I also don't imagine a ton of traffic to a blog full of nerdy things.

			; [https://www.nfoservers.com NFO Servers] : This is my web hosting provider. I've been administrating my own dedicated Linux server with them for over a decade and highly recommend them to anyone that needs a server. This server hosts the Wiki, Blog, Main Site, and Bug Tracker.

	= Internationalization =		= Internationalization =
	; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.		; [https://gemini.google.com Google Gemini] : There isn't an especially large amount of text in Fracterebus that requires internationalization, but it needs to be in as many languages as possible to improve the market size I have access to. After consideration of non-AI alternatives, I selected Gemini because it provided support for the internationalization I needed along with descriptions of why things were translated the way they were into various languages. Sorry to any consumers of locales besides en-US if the translation was strange.

NerdOfEpic at 19:01, 18 February 2026

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	; [https://store.steampowered.com Steam] : The first target platform for Fracterebus is Windows PC through Steam. This choice was made because I am interested in the huge market it presents, and because exporting from Godot to Windows PC is built-in and straightforward. Steam also provides access to the growing Linux gaming community.		; [https://store.steampowered.com Steam] : The first target platform for Fracterebus is Windows PC through Steam. This choice was made because I am interested in the huge market it presents, and because exporting from Godot to Windows PC is built-in and straightforward. Steam also provides access to the growing Linux gaming community.

	; [https://store.playstation.com PlayStation ~~Store~~] : As a longtime fan of Sony's PlayStation consoles, this is my preferred console system. I hope to port Fracterebus to PlayStation with the help of a 3rd Party porting company that specializes in Godot console ports or through the use of middleware.		; [https://store.playstation.com PlayStation] : As a longtime fan of Sony's PlayStation consoles, this is my preferred console system. I hope to port Fracterebus to PlayStation with the help of a 3rd Party porting company that specializes in Godot console ports or through the use of middleware.

	; [https://xbox.com XBOX ~~Store~~] : This is Microsoft's storefront for their XBOX consoles.		; [https://xbox.com XBOX] : This is Microsoft's storefront for their XBOX consoles.

	; [https://nintendo.com Nintendo ~~Store~~] : This is Nintendo's storefront for their Switch consoles.		; [https://nintendo.com Nintendo] : This is Nintendo's storefront for their Switch consoles.

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