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| A community freeware game project. |
| I have had an idea; why don't we develop a freeware game (of course it will be hosted on a place with ads that we will be payed for, such as a free .tk domain with a host that has a great FTP service) with freeware tools, unless if it's a cheap tool you already have or something you have to do in real life that costs a little bit (such as scanning, because a printer costs money, but that shouldn't count). It may boost activity and it may even attract new members. Also, this won't be like Aeon. Oh dear that would be horrible. This project will be open sourced, free, and made by the entire community. Even if you can't code, then you can participate (artwork, storyline, ect.). And if you want to learn, then I shall make a directory of sites that you can learn from for free. And also, this could be great practice if you already know how to make a game, because you can just mess around in it. Do you guys think this would be a good idea? I mean, you can't say "well, I don't have enough time", because this project will take awhile. |
POLL: Who should be in charge?
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| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
Read the header. People involved: Jorster Buboy Soccerboy Magnapple Krotomo Maybe: Jazz go drink some water | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
Links for coding lessons: Codecademy Harvard's free online classes that allow you to go at your own pace Code.org Khan Academy's computer science area Oracle's Java tutorials Links to freeware game makers: GameMaker: Studio on Steam Links to freeware music making programs: MODPlug The audio editors and recorders section on Softpedia AudioTool Links to free document editors: LibreOffice (contains LibreOffice Writer) OpenOffice by Apache Links to free photo edit software: GIMP go drink some water | ||||||||||
| Jorster | |||||||||||
| mfw Karma: 168 Posts: 2549 Gender: Male Location: The Straight Guy's Garage pm | email |
I'm open to coding Java for this  | ||||||||||
| jazz | |||||||||||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
but what type of game will this be? fps? platformer? puzzle? | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
That shall be decided once we get enough people on board. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| jazz | |||||||||||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
Ok, I'm going to wait for the game type before I decide if I'm interested. | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
That's fine by me. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| buboy24 | |||||||||||
Age: 24 Karma: 51 Posts: 715 Gender: Male pm | email |
Joining... Puzzle! I like. I'm great at word puzzles. It's good to be back. | ||||||||||
| jellsprout | |||||||||||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
Aeon is also an open-source project with contributions (mostly graphics, sound and concepts) by the entire community. The main problem is that we only have one somewhat capable programmer for Flash, which makes it all very difficult. I support this proposition, but I don't hyped up just yet. Spoiler: | ||||||||||
| snipereborn | |||||||||||
| Fact Squisher Age: 31 Karma: 136 Posts: 1307 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, United States pm | email |
I recommend you make it immediately clear that you (or someone) is the"leader" so that there is a source of authority and purpose. Without some measure of centralization, projects like this die from lack of organization and direction, which is slow and painful for everyone involved. If you do that, I'll be interested. I can even take charge if absolutely no one else will, but i really don't want to; i just need to know that someone is ultimately responsible for making things happen. Everyone runs faster with a knife. | ||||||||||
| soccerboy13542 | |||||||||||
| ~*~Soccer~*~ Karma: 450 Posts: 4466 Gender: Male Location: 1945 pm | email |
When i first saw this, i swore it said freeway.... well. freeway or freeware, i'll try to contribute lol 'Livio' said: You know, I was thinking of getting an internship at Microsoft, but I'm not sure I want their lameness to rub off on me. | ||||||||||
| jazz | |||||||||||
Karma: 108 Posts: 3050 pm | email |
Screw freeways. We're building bypasses. | ||||||||||
| magnapple | |||||||||||
Karma: 12 Posts: 47 Location: Location pm | email |
I will contribute once things settle if there is a need for more people  | ||||||||||
| krotomo | |||||||||||
| The Shepherd Age: 23 Karma: 249 Posts: 4066 Gender: Male Location: My chair pm | email |
I'll join with stuff that doesn't involve coding... | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
I will be in charge of organization, Sniper. It won't be like Aeon, Jell, because Livio didn't ever release the source code, and no one on the IG participated in anything more than basic stuff. Also, should I get another community to join in? I mean, small community, not one with over 9000 members that are active. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| Darvince | |||||||||||
| sea level change Age: 24 Karma: 107 Posts: 2043 Gender: Female Location: The Nuclear Era pm | email |
Yes, employ the universe sandbox forum! (My main forum) "Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity." | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
How about no, because from the looks of it, they have a bunch of active people. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| Darvince | |||||||||||
| sea level change Age: 24 Karma: 107 Posts: 2043 Gender: Female Location: The Nuclear Era pm | email |
No, only 10 of us are active. I meant the Everything Else section, because most of the people here are barely active compared to there so it looks like a lot more people. "Time is a circuit, not a line; cybernetics instantiates templexity." | ||||||||||
| Jorster | |||||||||||
| mfw Karma: 168 Posts: 2549 Gender: Male Location: The Straight Guy's Garage pm | email |
I'd also like to add that I can code in C++, Lua, and am working on learning javascript/flash. | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
Okay, so you're flexible for programming languages. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| jellsprout | |||||||||||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
'Kooler' said: It won't be like Aeon, Jell, because Livio didn't ever release the source code, and no one on the IG participated in anything more than basic stuff. Livio did release the code: http://www.interguild.org/members/forums/topic.php?id=6009 The idea was also that more people could help with the coding, but nobody else has any experience with AS3, so nobody else helped. Spoiler: | ||||||||||
| atvelonis | |||||||||||
| Apocryphal Ruminator Karma: 160 Posts: 1642 Gender: Male Location: An antique land pm | email |
Hmmm, I'd like to help out with this, it seems like a pretty cool idea. I can't code very much, don't trust me with that, but it would be interesting to get into some of the aspects and ideas of the game for me. 'jellsprout' said: As a kid I always thought tennisballs looked delicious and I liked biting them. I still remember the feel of the fuzz on my teeth and tongue. | ||||||||||
| Kooler | |||||||||||
| find me in your local trashcan Age: 24 Karma: 25 Posts: 1432 Gender: Male Location: California, USA. pm | email |
'jellsprout' said: 'Kooler' said: It won't be like Aeon, Jell, because Livio didn't ever release the source code, and no one on the IG participated in anything more than basic stuff. Livio did release the code: http://www.interguild.org/members/forums/topic.php?id=6009 The idea was also that more people could help with the coding, but nobody else has any experience with AS3, so nobody else helped. That explains that. 'atvelonis' said: Hmmm, I'd like to help out with this, it seems like a pretty cool idea. I can't code very much, don't trust me with that, but it would be interesting to get into some of the aspects and ideas of the game for me. go drink some water | ||||||||||
| buboy24 | |||||||||||
Age: 24 Karma: 51 Posts: 715 Gender: Male pm | email |
I can't code. make music or graphics so what can I contribute? It's good to be back. | ||||||||||
| jellsprout | |||||||||||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
You can learn how to code, make music or graphics. Every skill is pure experience. Spoiler: | ||||||||||
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