In a state of madness Sebastian Schaetz wrote the following :
> Hi,

Hello!

> I'm a 23 year old CS student from Germany and stumbled upon your GSoC
> offering and it caught my interest. Especially the web based client
> project is very appealing. I tried the game but I somehow got lost and
> couldn't figure out how to play it. I hope this fact doesn't
> disqualify me already :-).

Don't worry, I'm watching the project a year now and I still don't know 
how to play :). Although seriously, it would be best to drop by the IRC 
channel and have a talk with the devs. The IRC channel is #tp on 
FreeNode ( irc.freenode.net ). This is definitively the best place to 
both get more info, and make the devs excited about your application.

> I'm very interested in writing a web based user interface for strategy
> games. I already tried a couple of things based on my favourite game
> Starcraft:
> * http://soa-world.de/dev/release1/release1.html a very simple
> prototype, basically cloning parts of the Google maps functionality
> * http://www.soa-world.de/dev/release2/echelon.php?demouser another
> prototype with units that can move and bunkers
> Please note that those are only a few hundred lines of code and
> rudimentary. I just wanted to find out what can be done. So I'm by no
> means an expert but want to learn how it can be done.

For simple prototypes I must say they are quite nice. But also being a 
SC fan I'm biased :P.

> I would first like to understand how the game works and play it for a
> while to get a feeling for what is required and what makes sense in a
> web UI. After I get an idea of how it works I could put together some
> requirements for the web based user interface. I then would probably
> have to prototype and find out how the game can be accessed and to
> determine the best architecture. I already glimpsed at libtpproto-php
> - this would probably be the way to go for me.

Come and join us then at the channel!

regards,
-- 
At your service,
Kornel "Epyon" Kisielewicz
http://chaosforge.org
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