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+Atlantis is a text-based role-playing game framework. It provides an
+interpreter to a simple descriptive language (ATL) which can be used to create
+new game worlds, and the user interface through which those worlds are explored.
+
+The aim is to give it multiplayer capabilities, so that several people can play
+over a network. As Atlantis is still a very early stage of development, this
+has not yet been implemented.
+
+Contributions are welcome, simply submit a pull-request to the Github home page.
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+Copyright (c) 2015 Daniel Vedder
+Licensed under an MIT license.
+
+Last modified 11/06/2015
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