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Do you want you want to work on Nova?

Sat, 10 March 2007 16:30

ken-reed

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Registered: December 2006
Location: Oxfordshire, UK

Nova has now got to a sufficiently stable state that other people can sensibly work on it if they would like to as a "hobby" - or just as an excuse to learn and use something new (for exmaple, .Net 2.0).

Nova is on SourceForge as a project (stars-nova) and there is a source code release (pretty much the same as you'll find on the Nova home page but usually lagging by a week). The code itself is not yet in the SourceForge CVS. I'll move it there if anyone else wants to work on the project.

Mainly, Nova needs programmers (but if someone could do a proper set of XP icons that would be great).

Nova is written in C# but if C++ people would like to work on it as an excuse to learn C# that's fine.

Nova is sufficiently complex that you really must be a C# or C++ programmer to sensibly work on the code. There is only one "coding standard": follow the existing coding style. You'll hate it, but it would be silly to have lots of different layout styles all over the project.

The program documentation is written in XHTML and implemented as a local web site. If you are a "ASP .Net" person you might be interested in improving the documentation web. It's too early to write a user guide but anyone who has played Stars will be able to play Nova.

Nova is already a playable game (athough there are some bugs to fix before it would be sensible for anyone other than a developer to play it).

To work on Nova you will need the following tools installed on your PC (they are all free):

Visual Studio Express C#.
Visual Studio Express Web Developer.
NUnit.
Any CVS client of your choice (I plan on using WinCVS myself).

If you think you would like to work on Nova download the source code (the code on the home page is the latest) and have a look at the "things to do documentation page" and see if anything interests you. Browse the source code and build and run the programs (if you have any problems just e-mail me for help). Generally have a quick "play" with it.

If you would like to work on the project post to this thread saying what you would be interested in doing and drop me an e-mail.

If anyone is interested I'll create a team on SourceForge. If not, I'll just continue to play with it as my hobby project as an excuse to learn new things.

Don't let the Stars! fade away.

http://stars-nova.sourceforge.net

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		Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: ken-reed on Sat, 10 March 2007 16:30
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: Nibor on Sun, 11 March 2007 21:27
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: ken-reed on Mon, 12 March 2007 09:48
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: Nibor on Tue, 13 March 2007 09:01
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: ekolis on Tue, 01 May 2007 17:13
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: ken-reed on Tue, 01 May 2007 19:03
		Re: Do you want you want to work on Nova? By: TomT64 on Tue, 17 July 2007 01:55

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