Re: Cooperative Free Software Game Development ?

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Kai Wetzel wrote:

>Has a page been set up mentioning Free Software game projects
>which are looking for developers, artitsts, writers, etc. ?

I think most projects are either looking for developers or wouldn't mind
having more ;)

>Has a page been set up mentioning people who would like
>to work on Free Software games in a group, writing code,
>doing artwork, story, or otherwise ?

I don't think this would be useful. If someone likes to contribute to a
project, she should just choose some existing project and join there.
The Linux Game Tome, linuxgames.com and, to a smaller extend, our site,
have lists of existing projects.

Another (related) thing: Some time ago someone (Ian?) suggested that we
feature some "game project of the month". New projects, promising projects
having problems finding developers etc. A good idea IMHO. Add to TODO.


>I would like to have my name added to the latter, though
>it's hard to tell how much time I could spare right now,
>it should be possible to do something about it within a few
>weeks or months if a nice project hits me.
>
>- I'd like to use TOM, Objective-C or C++ as a language.
>- I've found the following games interesting lately:
>  - dungeon keeper
>  - StarCraft
>  - Heroes II
>- I'd also enjoy working on the following kinds of games:
>  - SimCity 2000-like, but better in traffic sim. aspects
>  - Civ. x, but w/ diff. focus since they are good enough.

Anyone having a suggestion for him?


>It seems it would be best to use SDL for a 2-d game for
>now, is this correct ?

Yep. Perhaps also ClanLib.


	Christian

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