Re: [glob2-devel] Revive Glob2 with a kickstarter

[Leo Wandersleb]

Kickstarter being US only should not be a problem as I guess we would easily
find some US glob2 member to handle that part.

I'm more concerned about getting quality for the money. Last time I tried to
push Glob2 with money, I'm not sure if it even helped at all as for one I didn't
get half the agreed coding work for the money paid and maybe even poisoned the
open source spirit by bringing money in.

I wonder how many former glob2 players we could reach with a campaign and
whether it is worth it, to share the funds with paypal and kickstarter in other
words I wonder if the usual kickstarter user might jump on supporting the
project if they are not former glob2 players anyway.

About the design decisions: I am not passionate about reinventing the wheel, so
if we can base glob3 on another game, that's fine with me, too. (Mega)Glest [1]
for example has a nice game engine. I have no idea though whether their code
base is stuck just like glob2's. In such a case, pooling resources would maybe
make sense but they released the latest version just two months ago and they
claim to be very flexible.

Regards,

Leo

[1] http://megaglest.org/


On 12/15/2013 03:43 PM, Linus Probert wrote:
> AFAIK it's US only still. Europe has indeigogo. I feel as if I'm getting to
> exited to quickly now, but a glob3 would be fun to work on. Or even a glob2.1 
> if
> that is the case. Been running low on OS projects as of late.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Stéphane Magnenat <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     It is true that these are computationally demanding, but as they have
>     well-defined and stable interfaces, I do not see a problem in having them
>     implemented in C++. We could use numpy arrays for holding data and have a
>     module implemented in C++ for actually doing the search. I use this scheme
>     for a nearest-neighbor library (libnabo) and it works fine.
> 
>     It would be great if you could work on glob 3 ;-)
> 
>     If we do a kickstarter should we build an association to collect and
>     distribute money? Is kickstart still only available in the US/UK?
> 
> 
> 
>     Bradley Arsenault <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>         A Kickstarter project to create globulation 3 would need in the range 
> of
>         100K I would estimate. I still do freelance contracts so if the money
>         was actually raised, it could be arranged.
> 
>         I wouldn't recommend using blender game engine myself, or Python. I'm
>         not sure these would be fast enough for the pathfinding algorithms or 
> AI
>         heatmap calculations.
> 
> 
>         On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 9:32 AM, <address@hidden
>         <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>             > Absolutely, I think that really makes sense. The questions is 
> then how
>             > much do we want these animated, and what the engine should 
> provide for
>             > that. With the progresses of blender in the recent years, we can
>             imagine
>             > nice animations of the buildings when they are active.
> 
>             it depends a lot more on the shader capabilities of the engine 
> you are
>             planning to use, anyway, we can discuss the file specs if you 
> want ;)
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