You are making your own engine or using one? (3d?) Game play sounds like EVE online.
My problem with spare time projects like yours, is that they aim high and they never get finished by the lack of enthusiasm, because of the slow over all progress...
Last edited Feb 10, 2013 by Hookah604
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Deequation Regular ShmoeFirst of all; this is not a StarCraft II engine based game. This will run as standalone pc/mac application. The reason for posting this in here is, a lot of people in the StarCraft II mapping community are really talented, and someone might want a chance to go from creating paperclips in an editor with restrictions, to proper real life programming and game development. The game is strictly created as a spare time project, and the final product will also be free.
The overall theme:
The game will be an orthographical viewed science fiction game (eg. Starcraft in Space!) where the player will join a faction, and then take control of a spaceship to explore galaxies, systems or areas for planets, setting up trade routes, defending areas, joining an ongoing storyline or just hiding in the dense nebulas waiting for a chance to ambush a passing transport ship, in best pirate manner. The game will run partly online with multiplayer zones, and map zone control changing between factions depending on players actions, but will also feature single player mission based instanced zones. The meta will focus on managing your ships engines, tweaking your power distribution, coming up with smart ways to adjust your performance, in order to deal tons of phaser damage, or the hidden approach, hiding your ion trail from other scanners, making your ship look like an illusion of an easy prey, and in worst case, drop cargo and redirect power to the engines, for a smooth escape when things get heated.
What positions is available:
Although a lot has already been made (A lot of the coding, and engine setting), we are officially starting from scratch, so people can follow the project from start. So the first phase will be the planning, creating the goals for each build, so we can begin programming towards the goal. In other words, currently we are looking for people who know how to plan, write and develop ideas and concepts.
What requirements:
While we do not expect you to have any experience in programming, modeling or similar we do greatly value that you have experience with the StarCraft II editor in order to have an idea of programming flow, logic thinking and problem solving through forward and smart thinking.
Time, time and Delta.time. We won’t enforce any assignments on anyone, this is a spare time project, but when you do have available time, we expect you to let us know, that you are open for taking on some assignment, and please understand that whilst we do not expect outsourced assignments to be done (negative thinking, realistically result) but we do expect if you volunteer for an assignment, that you finish it within too much time, or worst case say you can’t do it – no one will blame you for that.
Independent thinking, when challenged with problems, return smart feedback, if the parameter says A, the smart thinker will say ‘A is good, but what about B, B is even better’, and a slight understanding of Star Trek, Star Gate, or similar science fiction is only a plus!
What software, languages, prerequisites:
Whilst you do not have to have the software below in order to join, I will list them anyway for references. People joining for e.g. idea and concept development, or project managers most likely won’t need any programs. Project language will be enforced to English, and not offered by default in any translations.
The majority of the project will be coded using Java, JavaScript and C#. To correctly display these text files you can use text editors like Notepad PlusPlus or MonoDevelop, unsupported text editors includes Microsoft Word and Windows Notepad. Images and graphical art are made using Adobe Photoshop II for multilayer transparency images, for simpler images GIMP or good ol’ Windows Paint.
Final words:
There are a lot of unanswered questions, of course! But overall we are very flexible for changes, and a lot of things haven’t been decided yet, so if are interested in learning more, or joining, just throw a pm-message with your previous programming experiences, what your interests are, and what you would like to learn from this, and feel free, but not required to include any external showcasing.