Re: [Super-tux-devel] Ok then..

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Holla Eduardo! ;)

Em S=E1bado, 20 de Mar=E7o de 2004 02:08, o Eduardo Hern=C3=A1ndez escreveu:
> Well it seems like you have a defined path of what you want to do, however
> I don't think I would want to rewrite supertux in C++ if there is a decent
> piece of game in the 0.1, so I'm not quitte sure I will feel like helping
> there...
>

 In case you haven't noticed, we are already compiling it under g++, so it =
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already ported ;)

 Anyway, speaking about C++, I haven't really understood what exactly we ar=
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going to use...
 I am all for the use of classes, but Tobias showed little interest on this=
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Since we are now using g++, we can port piece per piece (like fonts, then=20
textures, then menus, then levels, then player...). I could start working o=
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these.
 Can I start using booleans? I really hate to see those show_menu with valu=
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as 0 and 1.

 Ingo and Tobias already expressed their willing to use strings, instead of=
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chars. Truth be told, I don't have knowledge on this... I mean, I've learne=
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C++ basically by myself. Currently I'm only on my 1st year of college (so=20
i've just learned Haskell and now started with C).
 Obviously, I've studied the use of templates, however never used them in=20
practice, and I've never going further with the Standard Template Library.
 So, I can't vote on this.


> But if you are saying supertux main need is artists then I will do art. I
> guess I would try to get the other artist through IRC and the mailing lis=
t,
> but I think that maybe a list of developers and the job they are actually
> doing(something general like designer, programmer, artist, sound engineer
> and so on) and how to contact them.  I need to talk to them about what are
> they doing so I can do stuff that no one is working on, and get informati=
on
> about the conventions(file type, size of sprites and such)
>
 Basically, yes, we are really in the need of artists for the creation of a=
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tileset and levels.
 But there are some small stuff you could help in the code. Small stuff lik=
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the behavior and looking for bugs. For example, Tux's jump is ugly and shou=
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be tile-based, as described at:
http://super-tux.sourceforge.net/milestone1/gameplay.html

> And actually it was version 0.0.5 that atracted me united to the lack of
> games in linux ;)
>

 Currently, there are thousands of linux games (gametome has a database of =
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hundred games!), but not more than a hand of platform ones.

> I sent an email to the supertux website also, tought I dont know if the
> ones who manage the website are supertux developers too. If so I would ha=
ve
> written it here.
>
 The email on the page is the one of the mailing list, isn't it?

Gracias,
Ricardo Cruz

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