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Team name: The Legend of Mazzeroth Development Team (a.k.a. New Age Software) Project name: The Legend of Mazzeroth Brief description: The Legend of Mazzeroth is a 2D MMORPG project dedicated to bringing the Open Source Community a high-quality game that hundreds of users can enjoy simultaneously. It includes an end-user Client, Server and Content Authoring software. Target aim: Freeware Compensation: As this is an open-source project with no funding save for what comes out of our pockets for things like equipment and web hosting, there is no monetary compensation. However, you are free to use this project in your Portfolio. Other compensation can also be arranged. Technology: Windows XP/Vista, MacOS X, Linux and iPhone. Core software being written in C++ including Client, Server and Authoring Tools. Web-based Administration Software to be written in PHP. Talent needed: Writer - Writers will be developing the Phase 2 offline mode story as well as creating the background lore and cultures of the world for Phase 3 and 4. Concept, Environment - Environment Concept Arists will be working with the Writers, Contributors and Developers to develop the visual look and feel of the game world. Concept, Architecture - In addition to the environment of the world, we have a wide variety of people and cultures. Unique architecture will be necessary to keep the game and world diverse and interesting. Team structure: Leeor Dicker - Project Lead, Lead Programmer Trevor Allen - Mac Programmer, Recruiter, Web Admin, All-Around Couldn't Function Without Useful Guy Fred Oranje - Lead Programmer, MacOS Revan the Darth - Programmer, Windows Jay Clark - Programmer, Windows/Linux Cherub of Death - Programmer, Windows Le Phan - Lead Artist The Hellion Tamer - Concept and Pixel Artist Brandon - Audio Lead Alex Wroten - Composer Kurt - Lead Map Developer Tim M. - Writer Luke Hendrick - Writer Jesse Keller - Writer Contributors: DavidHalo - Artwork Mary Ellen Boyko - Writer Tayuke - Story & Game Suggestions, Wiki Contributor Zachari - Writer Website: http://www.newagesoftware.org Contacts: You can contact me directly via the following methods: E-Mail: leeor(dot)net(at)gmail(dot)com AIM: leeornet YIM: leeor_net You can also get in touch with us on our Community Forums or on IRC (freenode.net, #legendofmazzeroth). Previous Work by Team: none Additional Info: In order to be productive and to keep things from stagnating, we've devided the project into four Phases to help us acheive our goals: Phase 1 was put in place to discuss and design the New Age code base before we started any coding. We wanted to avoid the pitfalls that plague and often doom open-source projects to failure such as poor planning, ad hoc'ed code and to resist the urge to 'just get something working'. Bad code is not worth trying to fix and it seemed logical to have a good idea of what we were going to do before we actually started. Phase 2 of our development process, our current phase, focuses primarily on the Client itself. We don't have the manpower to develop both a Client and Server simultaneously so we opted to instead focus on the end user part of the game by developing an offline single-player story mode. Much of the code that will go into the single-player mode (such as NPC/Monster Logic, player handling, weather systems, map handling, etc.) will later be transplanted into a stand-alone server that can then take over the task of dictating where things are and how they are behaving. Enter Phase 3. Phase 3 of the development process will essentially be transplanting the network, logic and message protocol code developed during Phase 2 and building a stand-alone server suite around it. It should be a fairly straight-forward and quick process and modifying the Client code to ‘plug in’ to the Server software should be trivial. This phase will focus on developing the inter-server message protocol, database storage engines and web-based administrative back-ends. Most of this development process will not be public and so will be heavily tested by the development team itself. We will also be developing the MMO content so that we can test out all important areas of MMO's like quests, scripts, events, battles and so on. Phase 4 is the point where we will finish the single-player mode and complete our offline testing and open up public test servers. From here we will iron out any additional protocol problems that may arise including performance bottlenecks and major bugs. This is the point where most of our MMO content will begin major development and we can begin to see some real tangible evidence that we’ve got ourselves a fully-realized MMORPG. In addition to the software and code development, we've all be very hard at work coming up with the content for the game, both the offline story mode and the online MMO. The following is a link to an online directory of some of our current Concept Artwork: Directory of Concept Artwork. Our Wiki also outlines much of the story that we've been able to develop. It's been awhile since we've worked primarily on the Wiki so you can find scattered bits and pieces of our content development and discussion on our Community Forums. Our Community Forums are open for anybody to register on and use to ask questions, make suggestions, help with development and contributions, and find out what we've been up to. It's also the fastest way to get a response to any inquiries you may have. Thanks for your continued support! Hears to our prospective Team Members! Feedback: ANY [Edited by - leeor_net on November 26, 2008 10:15:56 PM]
