Sources & Credits

Where every picture on this site came from, and under what terms.

RA Central is a non-commercial student project built for a university course. It documents Command & Conquer: Red Alert, a game it neither made nor owns, and it illustrates that documentation with low-resolution stills placed beside descriptive text. This page records exactly what was used and where it came from, because a site that borrows other people’s work should say so plainly.

Game imagery

Command & Conquer, Red Alert, and all related imagery are trademarks and copyright © Electronic Arts Inc. and Westwood Studios. This is a non-commercial student fan project used for educational purposes. EA has not endorsed and does not support this product.

To be accurate about the licensing rather than vague: no licence grants redistribution of this art. EA’s 2008 freeware release of Red Alert made the game free to play, not free to reuse, and the 2020 and 2025 open-source releases covered the games’ source code explicitly — not their art, music or data. EA’s modding guidelines do license C&C assets, but only as part of a mod, and a wiki is not a mod. What this site relies on instead is the same footing as every other fan wiki: non-commercial, educational, low-resolution use alongside commentary, which EA’s content policy tolerates for “personal projects such as fan sites”. Images are hosted here rather than hot-linked so as not to draw on anyone else’s bandwidth.

Image	Used on	Source file
	buildings/barracks	RA1 Allied Barrack Icons.gif
	buildings/construction-yard	RA1 Construction Yard Icons.gif
	buildings/power-plant	RA1 Allied Power Plant.gif
	buildings/refinery	RA1 Allied Ore Refinery.gif
	buildings/war-factory	RA1 Allied War Factory.gif
	campaigns/allied-campaign	RA1 Allied Mission Background Render.jpg
	campaigns/soviet-campaign	RA1 Soviet Mission Background Render 1.jpg
	countries/allies	RA1 Allied 14.png
	countries/soviet-union	RA1 Soviet Supremacy.gif
	game-modes/campaign	RA1 General von Esling.jpg
	game-modes/capture-the-flag	RA1 In The Nick Of Time.gif
	game-modes/multiplayer	RA1 Hind attack Mammoth Tank.jpg
	game-modes/skirmish	RA1 Demo Menu.png
	maps/green-oasis	RA1 SCG01EA Map.png
	maps/snow-storm	RA1 SCU01EA Map.png
	maps/south-america	RA1 Map of Europe.png
	maps/tournament-island	RA1 Evacuation Island.png
	site/hero	RA1 Albert Einstein erase Hitler.png
	units/grenadier	RA1 Grenadier Icons.png
	units/heavy-tank	RA1 Heavy Tank Icons.png
	units/rifleman	RA1 Rifle Infantry Icons.png
	units/tanya	RA1 Tanya Icons.gif
	units/tesla-tank	RA1 AF Tesla Tank Icons.gif

Freely licensed material

The two real-world nation pages use genuine public-domain flags rather than game art, which suits them better anyway.

Image	Used on	Source file
	countries/germany	Flag of Germany.svg
	countries/great-britain	Flag of the United Kingdom (1-2).svg

Type and technique

• W95FA by Alina Sava — a scalable re-creation of the Windows 95 UI typeface, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Vendored into this repository as the licence permits.
• The bevelled window and button styling adapts the four-layer inset box-shadow technique from 98.css by Jordan Scales, under the MIT licence.
• Reference material on the game itself came from the Command & Conquer Wiki, whose text is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
• No JavaScript is used anywhere on this site. The browser chrome, the loading animation, the scrolling ticker and the scrollbars are all CSS.

Honest omissions

Two things here are set-dressing rather than function, and it would be misleading not to say so. The taskbar clock shows a fixed time and the visitor counter shows a fixed number: both would need JavaScript or a server, and this site has neither. The four theatre pages illustrate real Red Alert mission maps rather than the multiplayer maps they describe, because those maps have no artwork behind them.

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