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

[Alex Sapp]

I have no coding experience, and barely some graphic design experience (might 
as well be none), but I am willing to help any way that I can. I am in the US, 
have watched countless indie projects live and die, and could say that I at 
least have the potential to offer advice on how to structure the game, what 
features players want, and possible work flow advice. I can also test 
extensively and can provide useful and unbiased feedback. Call me an informed 
gamer.

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> On Dec 15, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Leo Wandersleb <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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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