What about doing a small 'Towers of Hanoi' game, or something similar? You know, like a puzzle game targeted at a general audience. I think Towers of Hanoi is kind of a unique idea, because it could be easily extendable to have harder puzzles (different shaped rings, different colors/materials, etc). We could start off with a basic game designed by the whole community, and if it caught on, update it to include cooler stuff as we went on. I think it might be really fun, because it's an easy game to write initially, but allows us some flexibility as far as what type of physics we want in it, materials, features, etc... We could even add some really cool backgrounds and stuff if we had time.
Also, does Crystal Space promote using T-Shirts? I know some open source software companies make some of their money by selling T-Shirts/gear (e.g. Firefox), and it's a great way to promote the CS engine. If we don't have shirts yet, maybe we should look into making some and selling them on the CS website. We could have some fun by having like a 'Design a slogan' contest. I think the Crystal Space logo right now would look cool on a black or grey T-Shirt. ~Scott ______________ |Scott Johnson \___________________________ |_______________/---------------------------| | | | PhD Student | | Department of Computer Science | | University of Minnesota | | | | Office: Walter 460 | | Office Phone: 612-625-1257 | | Web: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~scottj | | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | IRC Nick: jwir3 | | | |___________________________________________| Timothy Whitfield wrote: >> On 5/31/07, Esben Stien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> "Jorrit Tyberghein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>>> promote Crystal Space >>>> >>> A simple game, like skeet shooting, would help boost the community. >>> >>> A way to attract a massive community would be a FPS game;). >>> >> Yes, so we need to attract developers and a bigger community to help >> develop that. >> > > If it means anything we have one of those FPS things going at > www.mentorgames.com. Our work is quite a bit ahead of what we have > posted on the site. We are currently finalizing our hosting agreement > and looking for a web content person to bring it up to date. > > The outline for the story is complete. The detailed script for > everything up to mission 2 is complete, and the actual content for > mission 1 is around 50%. Based on the fact that its only 2 of us and > we have been at this for a little more than a month, I would say we > stand a pretty good chance of doing something notable. > > Where Crystal Space may be counting on developers to make a game to > increase membership; we are counting on the completion and playability > of our first level to get us more developers and artists. I won't say > that future versions of this project will not enter commercial > territory as both current developers work for the same software > company who also happens to be considering bridging into the gaming > industry. I will say that this first game will be completely free and > a tribute to Crystal Space. If anyone is interested in participating > in this project, feel free to email me or register on the > mentorgames.com site and make a post to that effect. If anyone should > choose to apply to our project, we ask that you be realistic as to > what you can offer in terms of both time and skill. The success of > this project may very well end up thrusting our employer into the > gaming industry. Consequently we will be more selective than some free > projects. Our employer has stated that if this game does well, there > is a good chance he will pick up the entire development team for > future commercial games. Until such time that the team is > commercialized and for the duration of this free game, I will be the > head contact for this project. > > Kiolakin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Crystal-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main > Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Crystal-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
