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Attribution

Asset Credits

Sources, authors, licenses, and transformation notes for all shipped visual assets. All illustrations are public domain. Game sprites and textures are original procedural work.

Public Domain Art

Howard Pyle & Louis Rhead

Pirate and Treasure Island illustrations by Howard Pyle (1853–1911) and Louis Rhead (1857–1926). All are public domain in the United States as pre-1931 publications.

Louis Rhead illustrated the 1915 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island — the primary visual inspiration for this project's aesthetic. Rhead's bold woodcut-style engravings of Hispaniola, Long John Silver, and the treasure map anchor the site's nautical-pirate look.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates (1921) provides additional swashbuckling scene art. Both artists' work is sourced from scans at Project Gutenberg and Wikimedia Commons, converted to WebP atquality: 85.

Illustration of a marooned pirate alone on a beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Marooned

Illustration of a marooned pirate alone on a beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Author
Howard Pyle
Year
1921
Collection
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
License
Public domain (author died 1911, published 1921, pre-1931 US)
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Illustration of Blackbeard burying treasure on a moonlit beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Blackbeard Buries His Treasure

Illustration of Blackbeard burying treasure on a moonlit beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Author
Howard Pyle
Year
1921
Collection
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
License
Public domain (author died 1911, published 1921, pre-1931 US)
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Illustration of pirates forcing a captive to walk the plank, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Walking the Plank

Illustration of pirates forcing a captive to walk the plank, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Author
Howard Pyle
Year
1921
Collection
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
License
Public domain (author died 1911, published 1921, pre-1931 US)
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Treasure Island cover illustration by Louis Rhead, depicting the treasure map with the Hispaniola at sea

Treasure Island — Cover Illustration

Treasure Island cover illustration by Louis Rhead, depicting the treasure map with the Hispaniola at sea

Author
Louis Rhead
Year
1915
Collection
Treasure Island (Louis Rhead illustrated edition)
License
Public domain (published 1915, author died 1926)
Source
Project Gutenberg
Illustration of pirates dividing treasure on a beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

So the Treasure Was Divided

Illustration of pirates dividing treasure on a beach, from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Author
Howard Pyle
Year
1921
Collection
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
License
Public domain (author died 1911, published 1921, pre-1931 US)
Source
Wikimedia Commons

Game Assets

Sprites & Textures

Race to Treasure Island Sprites

FileSourceLicenseNotes
ship-player / ship-aiGenerated (Phaser procedural)Original work80×100 textures generated at boot byBootScene.ts via Phaser Graphics API. Player: white sails, gold stripe, gold flag. Rival: cream sails, red stripe, red flag with cross.

Procedural Textures (Phaser Graphics API)

All remaining game textures (ocean, barrel, shipwreck, reef, debris, treasure chest, boost bar, treasure island, finish flag, particle, sail) are generated at boot time via BootScene.generateTextures(). They are original procedural code, not external assets.

Game Screenshots

FileSourceNotes
screenshot-*.pngCaptured via Playwright1280×720 PNG at compressionLevel 9. Captured bycapture-browser-game-screenshots.mjs.

All images are optimized WebP conversions of the original public-domain scans used with aria-hidden="true" or empty alt where appropriate. See thefull ASSET_CREDITS.mdfor the complete inventory.