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    <p>We make great efforts to maintain an active, positive, friendly and inclusive community around Lance and game development.</p>
<h3>Starting out</h3><p>To get a bird's eye view on what's Lance all about and how to use it to make a multiplayer game, we recommend reading the guide: architecture</p>
<p>If you're more of the learning-by-doing type, you can start with the first tutorial, <a href="tutorial-MyFirstGame.html">My First Game: Pong</a> which contains step-by-step instructions on how to implement a networked version of this classic game.</p>
<h3>Joining the discussion</h3><p>You're welcome to join the <a href="http://slack.lance.gg">Lance Slack</a> to hang out and engage in active discussion with the project maintainers and fellow game developers.</p>
<h3>Keeping in touch</h3><p>Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/LanceGG_">LanceGG_</a> on Twitter to hear the latest and see what others are doing with Lance</p>
<h3>Getting help</h3><p>Feel free to ask anything on <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lance">Stack Overflow</a>. We keep an eye out for questions!</p>
<h3>Helping out</h3><p>Lance is an open source project, and as such we welcome any contribution.</p>
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<li><p>Spreading the word, posting or tweeting about Lance in social media using the (https://twitter.com/lancegg_)[@lancegg_ tag]. The larger the community, the more fun we have and the faster development can move!</p>
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<li><p>Improving the documentation: fixing typos, expanding, clarifying or writing new articles</p>
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<li><p>Fixing bugs, or adding new functionality. A good place to start would be issues on Github with a status of <strong><a href="https://github.com/lance-gg/lance/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22PR+welcome%22">&quot;PR Welcome&quot;</a></strong>. Make sure to open pull requests against the develop branch.</p>
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