Nemerle, what do YOU need as help in this endeavor? I am not a code monkie as such but I would be willing to do grunt work. Even if it is slavishly entering data into spread sheets - I would be more than willing to help.
Thanks Ironwolf, strangely enough, I was expecting that question a bit earlier then this
My main motivation in working on SEGS is providing people with a tool-set that would allow them to create super-hero themed universes. Even though we're currently concentrating on recreating the functionality needed to run the CoX clients I hope that the components and tools that we create along the way can, and will be used by other projects.
( and yes SEGS is open source, and it's using a license that is compatible with using it's code in commercial applications )So, what help You guys can provide ? Even if you're not comfortable with the idea of emulation, there are very many things that will have to be done for each and every project:
Tooling for example:
- Administrative tools
- User facing web applications
- World editing tools.
- Asset distribution framework ( since we don't have anything like cohupdater anymore )
- ... many other things I'm forgetting right now and am quite sure other projects could add to this list many common and useful things
What can You do to help bring those things about ?
Usually when one takes on a task of creating a software project, one goes around and asks the fine people that will end up using that software, "what do You want this to do ?".
Which has a fancy name of "requirements capturing", but in it's most basic form is just telling a story about what You imagine the tool should do.
Take for example CoH's Mission Architect component:
Do we have a full description of it's functionality, it's failings, and things it was lacking ? I don't know, I hope we do
Can we write a wish list for Mission Architect v2.0 ? That we can do, even if for everyone the list of features will look a bit different, there will be some things that most of us can agree on, and every project will want at least some of those things available in their particular rendition of super-themed universe.
Given all that, at the most basic level what all the projects need, are people that believe in them - just like fairies, we must be believed in or we just disappear