Re: [pygame] Era of Mages design discussions starting

["Jeffrey Drake" <jpt.d@rogers.com>]

It looks quite good, I might talk sometime to you in #pygame

On 7 Jan 2002 at 17:32, Frank Raiser wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> First I want to excuse for this looking like sp4m. It isn't though :)
> The Era of Mages project is coming along quite well and now the
> developers agreed to have the details of the design worked out by
> discussing them with the actual users (aka gamerz). A discussion list
> was therefore implemented which you can get additional information
> about on: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/eom-users The
> overall project (for those who don't know it yet) can be found at:
> http://eom.sourceforge.net
> 
> The reason for this call-to-arms is simply that we developers don't
> have enough time to discuss the design details as well as the more
> technical implications of it. We also want to enable the players to
> tell us their ideas and wishes so that we can create a better product
> for them.
> 
> We've been working on the Era of Mages user manual lately which is
> available for download at: http://eom.sf.net/manual.pdf (draft version
> only). It is supposed to serve as a ground for discussions on the
> userlist. So if you want to participate in forming a game please read
> the existing manual first and then join the eom-users list.
> 
> We're not talking about creating/discussing a full game concept here!
> As you will see from the manual the overall design for Era of Mages is
> already fixed and we will not discuss whether this is good or bad
> (afterall those are the ideas for a great game that got the project
> started initially).
> 
> To give you a more precise idea of what the discussion list is about
> here are some sample questions that will be decided on the eom-users
> list:
> 
> * What kind of spells will be available to the players?
> * What kind of enemies?
> * What controls should be added?
> * and much more
> 
> For the Era of Mages team,
> -- 
> Raiser, Frank aka CrashChaos
> IRC: irc.openprojects.net #pygame
> 
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