0 A.D., an Open-Source Strategy Game

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-0-a-d-an-open-source-strategy-game/

Guess you guys would be interested to flow this to see why well (or not) them can do... and have some example/experiment in future if you try something similar.

P.S.: some info on what them did before to get some money.
http://play0ad.com/financial-report-sept-2013/

Greenlight requires alot of money. Idk if developers can afford it.

The flexible funding perk of that campaign will allow them to gain any money raised even if campaign "fails". I'll be watching how they'd put it to use, the engine is borderline interesting.

By extension, "flexible funding campaign" for ZK could be quite useful eventually.

quote: How hard can it be to get some volunteer c++ programmers?

Volunteer, or volunteer to be paid from kickstarter funds? Completely different case, you see.

For example of "just volunteer", check how much engine developers are there right now in Spring.

You mean ZKL is way cooler because it has images for maps, shows you player numbers visually, has nice big icons for battles rather than a list full of text?

IS that seriously what Notalobby looks like? It's awful. I mean our lobby is a total mismash of icons like swords and shiny metal boundry boxes and technogadgets and little people and all, but notalobby looks like a spreadsheet program. I mean no dispute that ZKL looks bad, and maybe we could use less 'windows default' and 'clipartgasm' and more of their sleek grey stuff, but it's just a wall of text...

Don't forget blobby! I have used my favorite design decisions from various lobbies.

I prefer the original table with columns for the battle list over zklobby's "capsules" because while it's innovative, it takes more space than it needs to and sorts horizontally with wrapping which makes it more difficult to scan.

When it comes to the players in the battle, zklobby got it right. The springlobby table (no different from the battle list) is a silly way to display the teams.

The battleroom is also permanently the focus so it's always visible, as I also implemented in zklobby (not sure if it's still there? it was nicknamed picochat).

quote: wery pretty though.

also slower

Blobby Love -

The web-lobby is very ergonomic.

Also, it's cross-platform, and, frankly, it's just creative. (Look, you can run our lobby in a browser!)

Still, the fact that the game is going to be run natively means that there will only be 3 native versions of the game, which does make the cross-platform advantages of a browser-lobby less useful, but come now. It runs in a browser.




I will put in a brief +1 for the general idea of the "battle bubbles," even though they are kludgy, and hard to scan.


Funding -

There's another benefit from funding:

It would mean more focus.

I might be speaking for myself, but if I'm getting paid for something, I don't mind as much if it's not a "fun" task, especially if it's something I can do quickly.

Hopefully they can get to the goal of removing the awful lag even if they are $7000 short.

Anarchid, i think TheSponge mean this:


and from:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-0-a-d-an-open-source-strategy-game?c=activity#

http://play0ad.com/indiegogo-fundraiser-wrap-up/

quote: we’ll be putting your donations to good use in the year ahead as we hire our programmer for a full 12 months of work.

Not sure if it will be Jorma Rebane [aka RedFox] or Michael Hafer [aka Mythos_Ruler] or someone else.