-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Some of you might have noted in the last few months I was not very active as a devel in the crossfire community. Various reasons surrounded it. If you dig a bit, you'll remind i was planning a french based crossfire server. This mean a lot of work in term of code and quest design. (protocol modifications, map format, string translations). I couldn't do it alone.
But luck was on my path in november 2005, during a trip in Africa. Amongst trip mates there was someone with too much money. I explained him about GPL, the interresting future of opensource products in general and the buisness model behind it. I managedto convince him this could *not* be applied to the gaming industry. We discussed marketing strategy during a few days, just for the fun, putting aside all possiblities to make money with a GPL game. This overall was just a fun discussion. While for other softwares you can rely on the service, it's more difficult to do it in game industry. Even the wow based model with fees didn't look viable (and i understand know why you must also buy WoW). Guildwars was a proof it's better to make money on the game than on connection. Then i remembered of that old commercial game based on cf lib and i got a really stupid idea (I get about 20 stupid idea a day). This one was not as stupid as flying by night with an ultralight but it was not far. Around half of december, He created a company that would drive a projet based on that stupid idea, located in Toulouse France. He phoned me and we got about this conversation. - - You remember that idea you had in Niger? He said me. - - Which one? - - The one you had last friday evening. - - Ha yeah, *that* one? (Laughings) - - Yes, that one.... I did it! - - ...? - - It's viable, I checked it, we just targeted the wrong audience Following was a lenghtly explanation of it's targeted audience, he thought of a target i never thought about and indeed it's a well paying target :) Imagine my surprise :) He asked me to lead the project. However, for personal reasons, i did not want to leave belgium and my job at that time and we agreed i'll do a part time consultancy work on the project while he would pay a few experimented people and a bunch of juniors to work on an opensource game. We also decided to use crossfire as the basis of our code. The project is far from reaching the shelves for now but it's in a good shape. Most important, it has the money to survive at least until 2010. The problem now is to have those modification respect the GPL standards. I studied the possibility to integrate it in the crossfire main cvs, but lenghtly disscussions on mailing list for every change in code did not have a good impact. Unfortunately, the best solution was similar to the one used by Cedega: - - forking from original project to keep control on revisions - - move patch from crossfire project to ours as they are commited, using a special email account which shedule them for integration - - no release of public binary packages (well in fact it doesn't really matter considering the commercial model designed) I'd like to explain more, but information is currently still quite sensible. Now, enough for background story, i get to the point of this email! For the project we want to hire 3 people having a knowledge related to the crossfire project. Additionnal information on the company / project can be given to candidates, providing they agree first on a non disclosure agreement. Title: Alien code integration leader Available positions: 1 Role: You will be responsible to document and survey all processes of integrating patches coming from external projects to the company internal repository (downpatching). You will also select and prepare patches to submit to the external project as bug fixes or improvements (uppatching). You will select the data to be uppatched by balancing company confidentiality requirement and code maintenance facility. You will be the central communication point with other open sources teams, and the crossfire team in particular. Your political skills will be very important. You will be part of the project leading staff and you opinion about balancing confidentiality and GPL restriction will be very important to the success of project. Required knowledges: Good knowledge of crossfire project and proven activity in the last 2 years Strong proven skills in C language Very good relational skills Fluent in English Able to express itself in a French on technical programming and legal subjects Contrat duration: 3 years Salary: 5000 brut euros/month (can be negociated) Location: Toulouse, France Title: Quest leader Available positions: 2 Role: You will be responsible for the coherency of all game quests. You will design the long run plots and organize the job of the various map makers. You will communicate explicit requirement to the developpement team for map add-ons requiring coding. You will gather with the other quest leaders once a week for the cohesion of the different quest branches. You will provide clear documentation on every quest your team is working on, as long as their development status. You will also have to interact with the graphical design team to ensure a good balance between quest requirements and design team scheduling. Required knowledges: Proven experience in game story writing Ability to drive a team and respect scheduling Strong written communication skills Fluent in French Basic knowledge of English Assets: Experience with the tool 'Questflow' is a plus Basic knowledge of current crossfire game limitations is a plus Contract duration: 3 years Salary: 4000 brut euros/month (can be negociated) Location: Toulouse, France The company can provide an appartment to foreign applicants. End of applications: 1st may, 20:00 GMT For organisational reason and to prevent abuse, please send response to mailing list, you will be recontacted with practical information on where to send your CV. If you want additionnal information under non disclosure agreement, submit your request to mailing list, we will take appropriate measure to recontact you. Regard David Delbecq "Tchize" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFELqR9HHGOa1Q2wXwRAhQFAKCXNZzzkFj+824VgIuuv4i/AhtI+QCgtFr1 ZTGYXEHp9P/BGK5Qhb0rMAc= =Sqia -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
