{"id":607,"date":"2009-06-28T17:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T16:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=607"},"modified":"2009-06-30T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:51:27","slug":"want-to-help-write-a-simple-rpg-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/28\/want-to-help-write-a-simple-rpg-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to help write a simple RPG for iPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve recovered from GDC illness, I&#8217;ve got a little free time again, and I&#8217;m starting one of the iPhone games I wanted to write. This is a &#8220;for fun and learning&#8221; project, so it&#8217;s deliberately chosen to be low maintenance \/ easy to make a first version \/ easy to extend later \/ etc. I need artists, designers, quest-writers, and programmers.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t *need* anyone; I can do this all myself. But I&#8217;d rather do it with other people, and I thought there might be some hobbyists reading this who&#8217;d like to do something similar.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: there&#8217;s now a googlegroup for people working on this. You *must* contact me first via email (see below) or your request to join will be automatically rejected. <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/dmclone\">http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/dmclone<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSuper-short summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clone of Dungeon Master \/ Eye of the Beholder (google them if you haven&#8217;t played them)\n<li>&#8230;except &#8220;online&#8221; (not sure how much direct multiplayer interaction to allow, but probably &#8220;a lot&#8221;)\n<li>i.e: real-time \/ turn-based mixture, using simple fixed-perspective 2D-faking-3D graphics, and using the built-in pauses in gameplay to hide the network latency\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would like to do these bits myself (most important first)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Server code\n<li>Level design\n<li>RPG system design\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would really like other people to do these bits (most important first)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphics sets\n<li>RPG system + balancing\n<li>iPhone client\n<li>Quests \/ scripting \/ level-design\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could do all that myself, easily enough. Fine. Whatever. But given my limited spare time, I&#8217;d rather focus on doing a small number of things (i.e. server code) better, with more depth, than doing the whole thing but much more shallow \/ weak.<\/p>\n<p>For the first release, everything&#8217;s GPL licensed: code, content, everything. It&#8217;ll probably take us several releases to get something we&#8217;re happy with publishing, and at the start of each new release we might mutually decide to change the license; but we&#8217;ll start off with GPL and see how that works out.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, email me at adam.m.s.martin@gmail.com, tell me a bit about yourself, and what you&#8217;d like to do and why. Prior experience isn&#8217;t required &#8211; enthusiasm, personal interest, and &#8220;actually producing something&#8221; is. If I get no responses, I&#8217;ll just go ahead and do it all myself. Slowly :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve recovered from GDC illness, I&#8217;ve got a little free time again, and I&#8217;m starting one of the iPhone games I wanted to write. This is a &#8220;for fun and learning&#8221; project, so it&#8217;s deliberately chosen to be low maintenance \/ easy to make a first version \/ easy to extend later \/ etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,47,9,51,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}