# AppalachAI Studios License — Free Starter

**Licensed Asset: Melon Mini (melon_mini)**

- **Slug:** melon-mini
- **Collection:** squishy-foodies-vol-1
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License Tier:** Free Starter
- **Summary:** Free to use in personal or small commercial projects. Attribution appreciated.

Welcome, maker. This is the Free Starter license — our handshake for getting Melon Mini into your hands so you can build, play, and tinker. We made this asset up here at AppalachAI Studios, blending a little mountain craft with a little machine smarts, and we're glad you're putting it to work.

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## The Grant

AppalachAI Studios grants you a free, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Melon Mini in your personal projects and small commercial projects. You may download it, drop it into your scenes, and ship it inside the things you make. No payment required for this tier.

## What You Can Do

- Use Melon Mini in **personal projects** — hobby games, experiments, learning builds, fan creations.
- Use it in **small commercial projects** — indie games, apps, videos, and streams that you sell or monetize.
- **Modify and adapt** the asset inside your own project (retexture, rescale, rig, remix to fit your world).
- Include it in **compiled or exported builds** (a packaged game, a rendered video, a published app).
- **Attribution is requested** — a friendly credit like "Asset by AppalachAI Studios" in your credits or description is appreciated, though not strictly required for this tier.

## What You Can't Do

- **No resale or redistribution of the raw files.** Don't sell, share, sublicense, or give away the source files (models, textures, rigs) on their own or in an asset pack.
- **No standalone marketplace listing** of the asset by itself.
- **Don't claim you own or created the character.** Melon Mini stays an AppalachAI Studios creation.
- **No hateful, adult, or illegal use.** Keep it family-friendly and lawful.
- **No training competing AI generators.** Don't use this asset, or derivatives of it, as data to train models that generate competing assets.

## Ownership

AppalachAI Studios owns Melon Mini and all underlying intellectual property, including the character design and source files. This license gives you the right to *use* the asset; it does not transfer ownership. Anything original you build *around* the asset (your game, your code, your story) stays yours.

## Term & Territory

This license is **perpetual** (it doesn't expire as long as you follow the terms) and **worldwide**. It's non-exclusive, so others may license the same asset.

## Files Included

- `README.md` (readme)
- `LICENSE.md` (license)
- `manifest.json` (manifest)
- `thumbnails/melon_mini_thumb.svg` (thumbnail)
- `thumbnails/melon_mini.png` (render_thumbnail)
- `models/melon_mini.fbx` (fbx)
- `models/melon_mini.glb` (glb)
- `animations/animation_manifest.json` (animation_manifest)
- `animations/idle_bounce.json` (animation_recipe)
- `animations/squish_impact.json` (animation_recipe)
- `animations/wobble_recover.json` (animation_recipe)
- `animations/rare_celebration.json` (animation_recipe)
- `unity/SquishyProceduralAnimator.cs` (engine_script)

## Notes

- **Roblox scale reference:** 4
- **Questions?** Reach us at hello@appalachaistudios.com.

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© 2026 AppalachAI Studios. License ID: MOCK-MELON_MINI. Plain-language summary, not legal advice.
