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Join Team OGA for the Reddit Game Jam!

bart
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 12:23
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Reddit Game Jam 06 will be starting on March 25th at 22:00 UTC and ending precisely 48 hours later.  They'll be accepting team entries, and OGA has the combined coding, design, and artistic talent available to make a very good showing.  Here are the rules.

Team OGA will be doing the following:

  • As suggested, we're going to be using GitHub and writing an open source program.  The end result will be licensed under the GPL 2+3, plus whatever other license(s) we all agree on.  
  • We'll be coding in C++ and aiming for a release that compiles on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
  • We'll use existing OGA media where it makes sense, and create new art where needed.  Any art we use must have a Debian-approved license, so that the final product will be entirely free (as in speech).
  • Any libraries we use will be (quickly) decided on when we start the project.  Given our familiarities and time constaints, SDL may be the best choice.
  • Coders, designers, artists, musicians, writers, and idea people are all welcome!  Stop by our IRC channel (preferably in advance) if you'd like to participate.  No promises on us allowing in latecomers, since it takes a while to get people up to speed on an existing project.
  • We'll try to accomodate as many participants as we can, within reason.  If we're reaching a point where the overhead of managing people exceeds the benefit of having a larger team, we'll split into two groups.
  • This project will be run as democratically as is practical, but I (BartK) reserve the right to push things along if we get sidetracked.  If we end up getting too many people and splitting in half, a leader will be appointed for the other team.

Hope to have you aboard!

-Bart

[Edit: I've created a Team OGA Forum to discuss our world domination plans.]

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Anonymous (not verified)
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127.0.0.1
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 12:31

I might be able to join on saturday evening as a coder for a small task or so, not sure yet though...

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Pompei2
joined 15 years 6 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 12:32
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--^ that was me.

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smonos
joined 14 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 13:12
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AWESOME smonos checking in! will be there for at least 6hours sometime during contest :) probobably whole weekend lol, who am i kiddin

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Clint Bellanger
joined 15 years 8 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 15:02
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I'm mostly free this weekend!

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p0ss
joined 14 years 4 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 15:25
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Count me in to represent for OGA. 

 

 Bart, Have you thought about offering OGA's services to the gamejam team?  They need some way to vote on the topic and some way to vote on the winner,  OGA's voting system would work for that, we could even offer them a forum here.

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bart
joined 13 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 16:45
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I could do that, although I suspect Reddit would be an acceptable forum.  As for the voting, I'd certainly be willing to provide a venue for that.  The only issue is that I suspect people would be annoying at having to register here in order to vote.

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CruzR
joined 14 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 17:18
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Can I still join? I could probably help on friday evening and saturday nearly the whole day, doing smaller coding jobs.

 

Edit: Oh, yes, I may also design a background story for the game and it's characters, as I think I'm quite good at this.

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bart
joined 13 years 10 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 17:27
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Excellent.   And yes, there's still room. :)

As I said, if we get a lot of people, we can just have multiple teams. so there's really no limit.

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kurt
joined 14 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 19:40
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I always get confused by the timezones.   This might help others

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2011&mo=3&d=25&h=22&mn=0

 

 

 

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nander
joined 14 years 8 months ago
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 15:34

When do I have to decide? Tomorrow I'm going to plan when to learn for my test week , which will be 4-8 april.. I think I have about 20 hours.. The last 14 hours for sure, and saterday about 6 hours, totalling 20 hours. I don't have much coding experience, a little C++ (irrlicht), and I once worked trough the entire SDL tutorial, but don't remember much about it. But since team size is not restricted, I doubt that's a problem.

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argent0
joined 14 years 2 months ago
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 02:49

Hi, I'd like to join the team. :D

I can do some coding in C++, C,python3 or python2.

  • I have my own ncurses snake game almost bugfree, not published tought.
  • My english is not perfect.
  • I've used SDL, pygame and allero altought i always use wrappers.

-A

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Mathnerd314
joined 15 years 5 months ago
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 17:00

I'll probably be able to participate... no idea what to do.

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Anonymous (not verified)
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127.0.0.1
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 10:42

I'd like to join! Anything I'll need to do?

I think I can contribute with the art/design part, and alot of free time =)

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Anonymous (not verified)
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127.0.0.1
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 10:43

My nick on the irc-channel is Quball.

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