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Team name: BoS Crew Project name: Book of Souls: The Dark Age (2D ORPG-Project) Brief description: The BoS game project has been in productive planning for two years, and actual development for one. We do not charge money, afford to pay staff or have funds, so we are unable to create our own sprites or tilesets. We chose 2D because we (Admins) all loved the SNES and 2D games. We do fully intend to branch out to a second team in an effort to create a 3D version in C++, however this is not in our schedule for some time. The current project is programmed in VisualBasic, due to much resources and support for these forms of games. We use Asgard Source, the source's origins is unknown, but it shows characteristics of Mirage Source roots. We hope to get a large player-base, and hope to distinguish ourselves from other 2D projects. Target aim: The project aims to be freeware, so that players can just download the client and play the game. We plan to keep the project going, as it has been, unless we are forced to shut down and at no time will the game ever be P2P. We will continue to add on to the game, provide updates and greatly improve the game's Compensation: The game is freeware, and we are not able to pay or compensate any of our staff Technology: Because we program in VisualBasic, Windows is the only Operating System that BoS will run on. Programmers will need VisualBasic6, which we do not provide. Artists are recommended to have Photoshop6+. Since we do not use 3D graphics, Photoshop is all that is required. If desired, artists may use any graphics program, though photoshop or macromedia fireworks is recommended. We do not provide any programs for our staff, and they are asked to have experience with these programs prior to joining. Talent needed: We are desperately in need of a VisualBasic programmer. They must be able to program features within their deadlines to match release dates and have atleast five months experience with VisualBasic, or be confident enough in their skills to know they can do what we are looking for. We use Winsock currently, and we are hopeful we can switch to IOCP. If you have experience with IOCP, that helps us as well. The coding is not very difficult and VisualBasic is rather simplistic, however, despite running correctly the code is slightly bulky, if you are able to optimize the source slightly that is well appreciated as well. We also would like to obtain a graphics manager, to help manage, create or edit graphics for the game such as signatures, advertisements, banners, tilesets, sprites or needed in-game elements. This is a position we are really looking to fill, to compensate for our shortcomings in other area's. Team structure: DarkAngel (Mapper) (Five Months) IronFudge (Mapper) (Five Months) Fanta (Mapper) (One Month) Hill (Developer) (Two Days) SoccerPeter (Developer) (One Month) San Wei (Manager) (Five Months) TheYellowMole (Administrator, Co-Owner) (Six Months) I, Sandopan (Founder, Administrator, Mapper) (Three Years) Hybrid (Advertisement Manager) (Two Months) Xal (Website Design) (Six Months) DemolitionDerby (Developer, Part-Time Coder) (Five Months) Nikuru (Website Design, Writer, Developer) (Three Years) Laius (Developer, Writer) (Two Years) Website: Our webhost is currently having issues, and so our website is currently down. It should be back up by tomorrow. We are currently purchasing a domain and switching hosts. http://boso.irth.net Contacts: Forum: http://boso.irth.net/forum/ Email: bosoadmin@gmail.com AIM: Splinter881 MSN: yumai1@yahoo.com Y!: yumai1 Additional Info: We use graphics from RMXP, due to a survey showing that 8 out of 10 people preferred them when compared to other tilesets and sprites. http://boso.irth.net/loginscreen.PNG http://boso.irth.net/SS.JPG http://boso.irth.net/SS2.JPG Those are some of our older screenshots. A newsbox has been added to the mainmenu, and our maps have been updated to eliminate inconsistancies. Feedback: ALL ~Nicolae AKA Sandopan BoS Crew Founder and Administrator