Re: [pygame] Collaborative game in 8 weeks.

[Jim Scott <jimdscottesq@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like a good idea, but I think you should pick a theme and then see who
wants to participate. It'll save you a week, make sure that you are interested,
and help to make sure that people who commit time in the beginning don't lose
interest before the end of the project.

--- Rene Dudfield <illumen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Would anyone be interested in making an open source,  free game as a group?
> 
> To make it interesting, and to be sure that it will be finished(good or 
> bad), I propose it be completed within two months.  With set time 
> periods to have certain parts done.
> 
> week 1 we vote on a theme.
> 
> week 2 make a game design.
> 
> week 3 make a basic prototype/game engine.
>     - start on music, sound effects, graphics, story, special effects, 
> ai code etc.
> 
> week 4 continued work.
>     - join various peoples code together, integrate graphics and sound. 
>  Divide into small tasks so different people contribute easily.
> 
> week 5 playable game.  
>     - Decide on what needs to be done to make it better.
> 
> week 6 continued work.
> 
> week 7 finishing touches.
>     - tweaking gameplay/graphics/code/sound, generally pollishing it up.
> 
> week 8 game mostly complete, almost all done.
>     - finish installer, make more levels/content(if there are levels in 
> the game).
> 
> 
> 
> So we start with throwing some ideas around for a game, then make a 
> prototype.  We try and get game play finished early, then spend the rest 
> of the time tweaking, and polishing it.
> 
> Hopefully as we make the game we could figure out how to distribute 
> various parts of the game to different people.  Maybe we need some 
> scrolling code (one person starts working on that).  When they finish 
> it, other people can have a look, improve it etc.  A few different 
> people could do music tracks,  and sound effects.  Many people can 
> contribute graphics, or graphics effects code.  A different person could 
> work on player input, ai etc.
> 
> 
> Anyone interested?   Who wants to propose some game ideas?
> 
> 
> After seeing what some people can do by themselves in 48 hours.  It'd be 
> interesting what could be done after eight weeks ;)
> 
> 
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