mithro pravi: > Welcome to Thousand Parsec, if you wouldn't mind, could you tell us about how > you found the project and what your main interests in the project are?
Well, here is my story. In 1994 I was about 13 I was playing Galactic Civilizations on OS/2 Warp for a short time. Then father soon switched to Windows 95. After a year or two after the switch I remembered that I enjoyed playing GC and I tried to find something similar for Windows. So I found Stars! which I played quite a lot and later Galactic Civilizations I for Windows. About 10 years ago I started using Linux and about 5 years ago it became my main operating system. Later I again remembered how much I enjoyed playing GC and Stars! so I helped other players of GCI to convince StarDock so that they would port GCI to Linux or at least create GCII using tevhnologies like OpenGL or SDL so that it would be easier to port it to other operating systems. Since it looks like they don't care for users on other operating systems, I started to search for a similar game that would also run on Linux. I'm not exactly sure how I found TP project. Maybe it was after searching on Google, but if I now try some search terms that come to my mind first TP isn't very visible among the results. So I guess I heard about the project on some forum or mailing list or something. About interests. At first I expected a game preferably similar to Stars! so that I could already play it. But I quickly realized that this is project that is still in development and needs some time until it reaches Stars! features. That's why after I found TP project I forgot about it for a couple of years and just played Stars! using Wine. During this time I also started learning C++ and Qt programming (my mian goal is to help with KDE some day). This week I remembered TP project again and I remembered that it could use some help. And since I now know a little bit of C++ and Qt I thought that now maybe I could even be of some use to the project. Maybe I could even try to create a KDE/Qt client for the game to see how much I really know C++ and Qt programming. I will also try to get to know better the C++ code for server and protocol library and then try to help here. Since I'm more or less new to C++ I will probably need some help from you. I also have to tell you that I'm a physics student now, so I don't have a lot knowledge that someone gets if studying computer science. I learn about computers and programming on my own. So please bare with me if I ask something stupid or do something wrong. If you have any recommendations about what books/documents I should read about programming this kind of games I would be glad to hear about them. I would also like to hear what is the best way/place to start learning about TP code. > Could you also please log a bug on sourceforge if you haven't already. The > url for this is https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=132078&atid=723099 I see that Lee has already changed the order of includes. Should I log the bug anyway? > Thanks for your time. No problem. I'm glad I could help and I hope I will be able to help more in the future. -- JLP's Blog - http://jlp.holodeck1.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
