Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Wed, 06 December 2006 05:37 |
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ken-reed | | Senior Chief Petty Officer | Messages: 92
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Hi,
For an explanation of the project and how it's going see:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ken-reed/Ken/Nova.htm
Basically, I started building a Stars! clone as a "hobby" project to learn C# and .Net. I got a little carried away and it is now a playable game. Nowhere near the functionality of Stars! (no minefields for example) but the "guts" are there. Ships can be designed and built, planets can be explored and colonised, battles can be fought, etc.
I'm now going to move on to another "hobby" project and I'll pass this one on to someone who would like to carry it forward (that will be the subject of a separate post). However, before I do that, I'd like to make sure that what is there so far is actually playable (even if it is not bug-free nor fully featured).
So, I'm looking for someone who will help me try it out. Ideally, I'm looking for someone who is not only a Stars! fan but also a "coder" and, even better, knows C#. At the very least, I need someone who can install the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express tools (C# and Web) and build the programs.
Any takers?
Ken
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Re: Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Wed, 06 December 2006 06:00 |
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I'll be more than happy to take this on Ken. This is probably much farther than the current freestars project has gotten to.
Please e-mail me at whsmith <blah> welho <blah - the common>
Ptolemy
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Re: Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Wed, 06 December 2006 10:20 |
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A note to all the Freestars community. Ken has sent me all the code and he's done a tremendous amount of work. As I examine and compile this - and do some play testing with him I will post results here.
The current name of this project is Nova
Ptolemy
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Re: Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Thu, 07 December 2006 04:59 |
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m.a@stars | | Commander | Messages: 2765
Registered: October 2004 Location: Third star to the left | |
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ken-reed wrote on Wed, 06 December 2006 11:37 | Hi,
For an explanation of the project and how it's going see:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ken-reed/Ken/Nova.htm
Basically, I started building a Stars! clone as a "hobby" project to learn C# and .Net. I got a little carried away and it is now a playable game. Nowhere near the functionality of Stars! (no minefields for example) but the "guts" are there. Ships can be designed and built, planets can be explored and colonised, battles can be fought, etc.
I'm now going to move on to another "hobby" project and I'll pass this one on to someone who would like to carry it forward (that will be the subject of a separate post). However, before I do that, I'd like to make sure that what is there so far is actually playable (even if it is not bug-free nor fully featured).
So, I'm looking for someone who will help me try it out. Ideally, I'm looking for someone who is not only a Stars! fan but also a "coder" and, even better, knows C#. At the very least, I need someone who can install the free Microsoft Visual Studio Express tools (C# and Web) and build the programs.
Any takers?
Ken
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Greatly interesting!
I wasn't planning to learn a new language this Xmas, but perhaps your work deserves it!
You can write to me at:
ma stars gmail com
So many Stars, so few Missiles!
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Re: Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Wed, 13 December 2006 23:16 |
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Awesome. Does the AI utiilise any sort of strategy or does it follow scripts? Note that while a scripted AI will probably do well at economy building it won't be able to handle warfighting very well as its behavior will be predictable and exploitable...
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Re: Looking for a tester (or two) for an open-source Stars! clone |
Thu, 18 January 2007 19:57 |
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GreyMatter | | Petty Officer 2nd Class | Messages: 57
Registered: September 2004 Location: USA | |
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Hi,
I have a whole bunch of nice graphics I developed for my own mod - if you are interested I could contribute those to your project.
PM me. (or better gmail me at 6reymatter)
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