FreeGameDev

Hey Guys,

maybe you know me and the Project I am workin on from the Project Showcase & Collaboration Thread http://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4138 or the "An other Dungeon Keeper thread" in the Open Dungeons Forum here.

We would like to have our official (and only) Forum here, If that is okay for the Founders and the Community here, mainly for this reasons:

• We like to share and show the Community every step this Project makes and like to support and "live" inside the FOSS Community with a FOSS Project.
• We are totally open for new Input, Ideas, Feedback, critique. This is a perfect place to do that, with exactly the People who are interesting in FOSS Games.
• We are looking for Contributors, this Project is not easy to handle or to Help. Everyone is welcome. Going to make some basic todo´s and tutorial Videos.
• We can easliy benefit from OpenDungeons progress and Ideas, Solutions, and they from are also from us. This is not a "competition" or something like that against OD.

One question left: Why not make it an Area inside the OpenDungeons Forum?

• This is an independend Project. It has no relation to OpenDungeons from the beginning. Just by accident I found the OpenDungeon Project by using Skorpios tileset found on OGA. It was He who lead me here.
• OD Focusing on a different GamePlay with Fractions. We just try to make an very complex AI, and want to use basicly the same Gameplay from good old Dungeon Keeper.
• We focusing on Java as Programming Language, use another Engine (jMonkey) and using a totally different AI systems, that cames more from an accademic Background based on BDI-Agents.

- The AgentKeeper Team.

What forum structure would you like?

Hey Charlie

So, I would think, keep it simple at first : one code area, one asset area.

I also plan to make lots of instructions, jump-starts etc. for people who are interested in the Project but dont know how things go on.
Do you recommend an extra category/area for that, or should I put it at the googlecode-wiki or something like that?

What about a more general / help area?

Yeah, that would be a better solution.

Et voila!
viewforum.php?f=83

Hey! Thank you alot! Really cool.

Can I ask you for another favor? We would prefer as names for the categories: "AK Help & Instructions", "AK Graphics & Models" and "AK Coding".

Unfortunately I dont have to time to fill the Content right now, so it looks little bit funny the empty Forum there.

Thanks again,

Philip

Thanks for starting the thread. I wanted to discuss with admins first but couldn't find the time to finally start a thread.

Should there be situations arising from having two projects with strong overlap in game design, we'll deal with it.

By the way: I vote for 4 subforums being the upper limit for hosted forums.

Hey qubdup,

thanks to you all to accept this request Very cool.

Yes, we should try to avoid strong overlap in Game Design anyways. Thats correct.

Can you rename the three Categories in

• AK Help & Instructions
• AK Graphics & Models
• AK Coding

?

That would be perfect. Because now it seems we are looking only for contributors who can do/manipulate Assets. But we´ll happy to fine some contributors on every game element, including coding, or just idea Input.

Flipflop {l Wrote}:We would prefer as names for the categories: "AK Help & Instructions", "AK Graphics & Models" and "AK Coding".

Done.

Flipflop {l Wrote}:Yes, we should try to avoid strong overlap in Game Design anyways. Thats correct.

I didn't mean that at all. I meant there might be confusion to new forum users which project's subforum they want to on if they make work that seems equally fitting in both for example.

Kind of like when games provide binaries with two different rendering engines without explaining to the user at every download page what the difference is (YoFrankie) or Linux distributions providing default downloads with different desktop interfaces without explaining which choice would be the better supported one on every download page (Linux mint).