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[Worldforge-all-lists] Re: [WF-General] ACORN: Help Needed for Release Announcement!!!
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From: Bryce H. <br...@ne...> - 2000-10-30 22:48:33
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Wow, I'm pleasantly impressed how quickly everyone's jumped in
to help the Acorn team! We've made some very good progress.
In the list below, a '++' indicates a completed task. If I've
missed any, please drop me a line and let me know.
Alistair:
* Update the battleplan:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/b_plan
++ Note to WorldForge's news database about Acorn 0.2.0:
http://www.worldforge.net/cgi-stuff/news.cgi?.Command=DisplayAddPage
* Update your Acorn entry at Freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/announce.php3?id=964958973
* Submit news item about Acorn to SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/news/submit.php?group_id=11799
* Send an announcement of Acorn 0.2.0 to ann...@ma...
Aloril:
* Decide if you want to make a Cyphesis numbered release, and if so:
* Place a note in WorldForge's news database about Cyphesis:
http://www.worldforge.net/cgi-stuff/news.cgi?.Command=DisplayAddPage
* Update your Cyphesis entry at Freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/announce.php3?id=958084320
* Announcement of Cyphesis to ann...@ma...
Bryce:
* Update the WorldForge entry at Freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/announce.php3?id=934531132
++ Notify salon.com
++ Update the project intro page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/
++ Update the project status page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/status/
* Update the project goals page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/goals
Chord:
++ Update the contacts page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/contacts (I think maybe we
should trim it to the bare minimum, since it's going to get out of
date faster the more people that are listed.)
Karsten:
++ Note to WorldForge's news database about UClient 0.8.3:
http://www.worldforge.net/cgi-stuff/news.cgi?.Command=DisplayAddPage
* Update your UClient entry at Freshmeat.net
http://freshmeat.net/announce.php3?id=958084875
* Announcement of UClient 0.8.3 to ann...@ma...
* Update the Acorn Team page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/team
* Drop a note to the SDL list about Acorn
Kosh:
* Update http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/servers/
It should mention www.worldforge.net and any other acorn servers
that will be running during the announcement phase.
* With mithro and pug, schedule 30 minute Acorn Gaming Sessions 4
times each day.
Lee:
++ Update the WorldForge project FAQ:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/helpdesk/faq/
++ Update the Top Ten Things About WorldForge page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/topten
Malcolm:
* Update the installation page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/install
* Review the page on Playing Acorn for completeness:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/players
Malkin:
* Notify Imaginary Realities: imaginaryrealities.imaginary.com
* Notify MUD development community
Mithro:
++ Update the Acorn Download page to point to the correct 0.2.0 files
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/download
* With pug and kosh, schedule Acorn Gaming Sessions 4 times each day.
Pato:
++ Update http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/ with a better
description of what Acorn is. Pretty much rewrite all the text
there and shorten to just a few paragraphs, moving anything that
looks worth keeping somewhere else.
Pug
++ Set up a wiki account for malcolm
* With mithro and kosh, schedule Acorn Gaming Sessions 4 times each
day (30 min each).
Uta:
* Put some small graphics of your choice onto some of the Acorn
pages for decoration.
* Update the required media and sounds lists:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/media/demotodolist/
http://www.worldforge.org/website/media/sound/demotodolist/
General: (Volunteers needed!)
* Update page about whether we'll succeed or not:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/succeed
* Update page about open source ideology and free gaming:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/oss
* Update the Acorn Rules
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/rules
* Search for articles that have mentioned WorldForge or its products,
and place what you can find here:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/links
* Update the "Urgently Needed" page:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/about/needed
(I think we could delete most of these, or move them into the task
log on SourceForge, and just have a pointer to other task lists.)
* Notify LinuxToday: http://linuxtoday.com/contribute.php3
* Notify LinuxWeeklyNews: http://www.linuxweeklynews.com
* Notify Linux Game Development: http://sunsite.auc.dk/linuxgames
* Notify Linux Game Tome: http://www.happypenguin.org/
* Nofity Tux Games: http://www.tuxgames.com/
* Notify other game development sites as discovered.
As to a time frame to complete these... Let's shoot for a week, or at
most two.
Here is a sample announce message that you can base your posting on, if
you would like:
After several months of development, WorldForge is proud to announce the
release the second alpha version of "Acorn", an epic pig herding game.
This game is a technology demo for UClient, Cyphesis, and Atlas, as well
as an opportunity to display some of the WorldForge artists' work.
Acorn is a client-server 2D-iso game in the style of various multiplayer
graphical roleplaying games, but where instead of fighting monsters, the
objective is to raise and fatten pigs for sale to the friendly butcher.
He who brings home the most bacon by the end of the game wins!
Since Acorn is still in alpha, in addition to the usual flora and fauna
in the game, you may be fortunate enough to encounter some strange and
marvelous bugs and horrid misfeatures. Please describe your findings at
our SourceForge bug tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/bugs/index.php?group_id=11799&_category=4079
More information on Acorn is available here:
http://www.worldforge.org/website/rules/acorn/
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