(request) FAR Colony (RIP) Design Documents Upload
Hello, it is a long time (since about April/May 2020) that I haven't been using the site.
I would ask the admin if I can dump the whole game design documents (via a 7z archive) of my ex-project called FAR Colony.
FARC is dead in the water since the 2nd quarter of 2020, the project's website also doesn't exists anymore.
So since it's already nearly two years, and that I have no intention to resume the development of the project in the future, I would ask the permission to upload a 7z archive of all my design documents in this thread, so maybe all the work I have done for these years could be of any use and/or value to someone else. I would use a CC-By license for it.
I know that OGA is more about art, so it is the second reason why I ask there; For the entire project's duration (since 2011) I used a ton of assets provided by this community, which helped my project to be alive for the time I was developping it.
If it is not allowed I would perhaps provide a dropbox link, or maybe find another place.
Thank you for considering my request.
Are all the openly licensed art assets of the project already on OGA? If not, we'd love to have those. As for code, are you able to post it on GitHub and share a link with us? Even if someone doesn't come along and decide to keep going with it, they may find something useful to use in their own projects. :)
As for design documents; what does that involve? There is no issue with sharing documents on this thread unless they're so numerous and huge that it keeps the page from loading. I would like to see what you've got. Also, depending on their content, they could be considered art assets in their own regard. :D
--Medicine StormSorry, I corrected my first post after you answered. But I will answer to your questions / points:
- I haven't made a lot of custom assets, more used and modified / tailored existing ones.
I think that all I've made for FARC by myself is on OGA. but I'm not 100% sure that all the surface/terrains maps are on it, and for the rest I don't know.
I will certainly check for it! It's like dusting some old shelves.
- For the code I could certainly dump it in an archive, put it on my dropbox and sharing it. I'm not really motivated to set up a GitHub account for it. But I could share it, I have no problem for it, the code itself is entirely under GPLv3 since the start (2011).
- For the design documents, the whole stack isn't heavy (a bit less than 20MB) But I would want to include multiple .txt files with it, and I will have to pass a few hours to collect all the computerized notes I had for the game.
That would be a shame to not include the multiple notes I assembled (and somehow sorted by classifications) over all this time, who knows.
The docs themselves are in OpenOffice/LibreOffice format (ods, odt and odg ones), a few pdf and many .txt (ANSI) files.
The main design document has 553 pages, but many additional ods files addup to these pages too.
It's why that will be better to put all of them in a 7zip package, or maybe make classified (by fields of interest) packages.
In term of art, if you consider that 15-20% of French mixed with 75-80% of English in the main design document is a kind of one, yep that will be art in itself :))
That doesn't mean that many of these parts are exclusively French; but some of them are bilingual since the FARC app itself was localized in English and French.