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Started by KingFishi Nov 20, 2004 at 10:56 AM 18 replies 2.4k views
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KingFishi
KingFishi
Hello, my name is Leon Burton from Curve Software (www.curvesoftware.com). We're in need of C++ programmers to work on our MMORPG project. Before I begin breaking this down, this is a VOLUNTEER position untill a commercial version is released. You will be working under contract that will ensure your percentage of profits when we release a commercial version - you can leave at anytime and still receive your percentage of profits. About the project: Quintara is an ISOMETRIC medieval MMORPG being developed by Curve Software. What will I receive in return? Once a commercial version of the MMORPG is released, you will receive a percentage of the profits made each month. The amount varies depending how much work you have produced. Most MMORPG projects fail! You're right, they do. I can't guarantee all my projects will stay afloat, the same way EA or Sony can't. Quintara has been in development for over a year, there's nothing that could seriously affect us now. Has Quintara been advertised? On some websites Quintara will be named "Era Online: Return of Menath" (it's original name). A few months back we did a few dev chats over at Stratics.com, we got interviewed by GameZone and we're currently planning a dev chat over on the QuakeNET network. I'm interested? Contact me and I'll answer any questions you may have. AIM: Fishi World MSN: magic_fishy@hotmail.com ICQ: 315-170-302 E-mail: me@leonburton.com www.curvesoftware.com Thank you!
solinear
solinear
Wrong forum
Coz
Coz
Specificly the help wanted forum. Not the programming forum.
Sneftel
Sneftel
Help wantified.
graveyard filla
graveyard filla
will this game be 2d ISO or 3d ISO?

good luck!
FTA, my 2D futuristic action MMORPG
Kuladus
Kuladus
"Quintara has been in development for over a year, there's nothing that could seriously affect us now."

According to your website you have one concept drawing and one music track and no screenshots. What have you done in the past year?
Orbviper
Orbviper
Quote:
Original post by Kuladus
According to your website you have one concept drawing and one music track and no screenshots. What have you done in the past year?


Also, your FAQ reads as if the game is already available. It even directs you to the download page to download the game.
KingFishi
KingFishi
People, cut down on the flaming.

I suggest you start reading the dev journals, forums etc. We used to have a very active community, however, a couple of months back my host had a hard drive failure and we lost hundreds of users.

Maega
Maega
Quote:
Original post by KingFishi
People, cut down on the flaming.

I suggest you start reading the dev journals, forums



Nothing there. Journals are only a few days old, and the forum only has 179 posts, mostly "what will the game be like" type posts. I don't call that active :).

It's better to be completely honest than exagerate. It'll only get worse later if you continue to stretch the truth.

KingFishi
KingFishi
Please actually read my post.

"We used to have a very active community, however, a couple of months back my host had a hard drive failure and we lost hundreds of users."

Notice the "we USED TO HAVE a very active....".
Maega
Maega
Not to flame or anything but, if you did have an active community, a small HD error would not affect them at all since they would just reregister.
M__N__M
M__N__M
Quote:
Not to flame or anything but, if you did have an active community, a small HD error would not affect them at all since they would just reregister.

no offense but obviosuly you dont know how much damage a "small" harddrive error can cause for an online based dev. team.
Thats probably all thier work gone in an instant which can be VERY demoralizing. scrapping together what remained on other developers harddrives would be a daunting task.

However,i do agree the site (Specially journals) doesnt indicate much work.
Wan
Wan
I guess we sort covered the whole lack of information, screenshots etc. issue.
So the positive side: IMO the design of website looks pretty good and I do like the trees you've been working on.
smr
smr
I found a couple of screenshots:

invalid screenshots removed. sorry! [smile]

BTW: Here's how I found the screenshots:

Google search

[Edited by - smr on November 23, 2004 6:34:43 PM]
GroZZleR
GroZZleR
Those are just stolen Ultima Online graphics. =/
smr
smr
I hope you're kidding ...
KingFishi
KingFishi
Those graphics will NOT be used in Quintara - just to confirm that for anybody who was wondering. I think those were used for a really OLD (infact that was from last year, when the game was named Era Online - most of us never had anything to do with that engine) test engine that was never released to the public. I cannot confirm where those graphics came from.

As for the HD failure, it was a major bump for us. We don't have the time to go around picking up the pieces when we're trying to get as much done as possible. We lost hundreds of users and the popup we have on the site basically asks people to register for BETA UPDATES, people register and move on - most of them don't check back, they wait for the emails.

It's really hard in the game industry as I guess everyone knows here. I came here looking for help, not to get flamed. If you have any questions about the game, please register with the site as we are planning a dev chat at the moment - hopefully, your question can be answered there.

Edit: I now know where those images are hosted, I have tried my best to contact one of the sites to remove that image however, nothing has been done. The second site will have that removed asap. Thanks.
Sneftel
Sneftel
Aight, enough pointless flaming. I've been handing out warnings so far; now I move on to suspensions.
MExe
MExe
[ pointless flaming ]

[Edited by - Sneftel on November 24, 2004 6:22:11 PM]

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