Helping Hands (Join the project!)

Since I'm not very good at making things look fantastically good on my own, I ask anyone who may want to input their own ideas to join in and do so! Here's the folks I'm needing right now:

1) HUD Designer
Kinda important. I think Raffitz may be making the HUD, but I'm not sure as of yet. Haven't heard from him about it just yet... The HUD designer should also help in making many of the in-game menus and such.
2) Title Designer
If you're good with working the special effects of Flash and want to spiff up the title and the opening title effect, here's your chance!
3) Menu Designer
The menu at the beginning of the game (with the Start Game, Load Game, Options selections) might need a bit of touching up as well. If you'd like to import some of your own style into it, go right ahead! This should be a collaborative effort =D
4) Sprite Designer
Raffitz may also be one of the first of these. The job is to spiff up the current sprites and/or replace with your own. Obviously I think Raffitz will get this position first, but any number of folks are welcome to help out in this area too ^^
5) Glitch Repairman
This may be the most important job out of all of these. Some glitches have suddenly appeared and I don't know how or why. If anyone can help with this, I'd be ETERNALLY grateful!

I'll still be working on the actual default plug-in, setting the worlds apart, setting default prestige in individual systems for members of each group/government, and fixing together the sound effects as best I can. Anyone is welcome to contribute to my effort here as well, but I've already got in mind exactly what I want for the game's general 'universe' it will be taking place in, so egh... X3

If you want to join, just say so here! Tell me what you'd like to do to help and I'll send you the material you'll need to work with (spriters may need the ship sprites for example, and glitch repairmen may need the .fla file) I can't wait to finish it, but I think this will speed up the time it takes with a collaboration of folks and make the game a beautifully polished reality!

I can help you with the menu! You only need to say what you want.

Egh, for the front menu I'm not entirely sure. See, I want there to be different styles of buttons for each one, but in a sort of halo dark-green wireframe style for each, while the fonts stay the same. Then I don't really care how you move them around and such, I'll leave that to a wonderful mind such as yours and review it once you're done!

I think first and foremost for menu spriters, before I send the .fla file, is to send you a picture of the main menu background, then the individual text selections. Then you can mix-match them around and edit them as much as you like, and show your creation to me via PM, if you will ^^ I'll send you the images today.

Can you send it in the way that is comaptible with Macromedia MX Flash?

look, i can do any designing that you want, i am quite good at it. anything you want, just say the word!

XD I WILL hug all of you!



Alright, and now that that was over with o.o; I'll send you guys the material you might need. And I'd like to make sure you know what the bugs are and at least have a general idea where the problem is coming from first, before entrusting anyone with the .fla file XD

i don't need the fla, i'll just work on designing menus and logos and things like that, i have enough bugs to deal with by making bm3

And by the way, wat is the font that you used? I' going to try to use psp X2 to make the buttons.

I used a Star Vader font, a Babylon 5 font, a Battlestar Galactica font, a Stargate font, two Star Trek fonts, and an Independence Day font. I think I may have also used a font similar to the title of The Matrix somewhere in there too XD

well, if yer doin the menu, guess i'll work on the titles, unless you both want us to design a menu, then you choose which is best

How did you get the stargate font? I may use it in Flashgate.

But, you want something like an Dark-Green (we need this color for the letters) Halo, right?

it's all over the web, i think that even i have it!

Any of you can work on any of it. Although if you work on the menu too, you'll have to cooperate with JPB18 XD I'll get to sending you the title and .fla file, Darkwing. Don't worry about searching out bugs and such. If you know how to animate it in any differently than the default, you can. In fact, I think the current animation needs to be fixed up so the title stays in sinc between foreground and background XP

JPB18 wrote:How did you get the stargate font? I may use it in Flashgate.

But, you want something like an Dark-Green (we need this color for the letters) Halo, right?

And yeah, maybe. Actually, I was thinking more of an outline behind the words, like a crosshair angled so it looks like a floor (if you get what I mean by that XP) and other 'crosshair' styles, maybe even in different shapes if you want XD Be creative =D

I have the ancient and the stargate simbols from both sg-1 and sga stargates, but I don't have that font that I saw!

I am very sorry Jerome, but I have no idea with coding and only have paint, but if you can think of something, I'll definitely help.

Alright, Darkwing, here's a link to a download for the title picture:

Download

I'll send you the .fla file when I get the patience to upload the cursedly huge file (I've got it zipped, but it's still huge >>; )

im the same as shemuel, but ill help if i can..Maybe me and shemuel can be Alpha/Beta testers?

Certainly. of course, everyone that downloads it can and are encouraged to post up any glitches and such they find... But if you agree to be a beta tester, that would mean you agree to post up all of your findings anyway. So sure

Yeah, sure. I'm enjoying playing it anyway and finding all the different ships.

What do you mean with "like a floor", Jerome?

He means 3-D, sticking out.

A little bit like this?

Yes, exactly ^^

behind or in front of the words?
And sorry the delay, cause I'm seing the ark of truth for my first time.

Heh, no problem... The words should be in front so they're not blocked of course XP

Of course,

I already made the start game - selected. But i will only show you when I finish all the buttons.

I want the spriting position, and about the HUD, I recently had an idea... What I'm going to do with Flashgate is use flash' own vectorial resources, which I believe are the best vectorial resources of all....

nah, corel draw's is the best vector out there.

Here are the menu buttons:

Menu files

You can put now the way you like!

That's good JP! I'll start adding the buttons today! (after I finish some work of the educational nature... >>; ) Raffitz, I'll start sending you the sprites as soon as I can. It is a bit of a nuisance to get all the ship sprites out, but bah, I've got time... After real life, this is the one thing I spend most of my time on the computer doing (besides writing and roleplaying, which I should be doing more often, but I just want to get this finished first XD)

Hey look, I necroed my own topic! XD

Anyways, update time guys! I've gotten most of the stuff down now, but before I release another alpha, I'd like a little assistance in the graphics department! JP, can you upload your buttons for me again? The link seems to be down, and after my failed attempt at partitioning the hard drive (and the subsequent hard drive crash), I'll need the buttons again to spruce up the menus with! Also if you can, JP, could you work on the actual menus in the same style? I will DEFINITELY credit you if you want! I'll send you the default menu pictures if you need them!

As for anyone else, feel free to step up! I need some help with the HUD (which I accidentally screwed up during my experimentation with different graphical possibilities) before I post up the next beta. If anyone would like to design the HUD, be the first to post a reply, and I'll send you the source code to work with! I'll only send the .fla file to the HUD designer because you may need to move the HUD image around a bit to get it right. If you don't have Flash Creative Suite, then I will at least send you the default HUD menu pics, and implement them on my own later.

This project is VERY close to completion! After this and a subsequent alpha release, I just have to finish the default plug-in text (and some settings for the default governments and such), then it will be all done! Cheers to all who've offered help to this project, and all those that cheered me on the whole time! EXTRA cookies for you!

http://rapidshare.com/files/184887417/Menu_files.zip

here you got the file...

About the menus, I have a few problems related to photoshop CS3 validating (used a keygen)... gonna get CS4 one of this days...

i'll help, what do you need of me?

I can help in the story lines and just in case you put some missions too.

Darkwing wrote:i'll help, what do you need of me?

Thanks DW. I need someone to fix up the HUD for me, particularly. I screwed it up when trying out some new concepts. I'm still nowhere near as adept at Flash as you or Raffitz are. I'm more confused by the coding in Broken Mirror I than anything else. If you'd like, you can design the new HUD. Right about now, I don't really care what it will look like, but so many are asking that it look different, so that's what I wanted to do. Since you seem to have a very good HUD concept going on with Broken Mirror III, I trust you can make a great HUD for 'Undiscovered Countries'!

I'll send you the .fla file via PM.

Karlo wrote:I can help in the story lines and just in case you put some missions too.

I AM going to work on the transport missions (when you transport down to a planet and different things happen). But I'm not quite sure how to do a campaign yet. I'm afraid if I try anything extreme just yet, I'll ruin all that I worked for, so I just want to get to the actual 'completion' stage of the basic game... THEN I'll think about making some campaigns and specific storylines!

But when I do, I will gladly look to you for help in that regard! Thanks for volunteering!

Karlo wrote:I can help in the story lines and just in case you put some missions too.

i can also do that.

HOW THE FLIPPING BEEP DID YOU MAKE THE FLA 97 MB???!?!?!?!?

i don't know, but i need cs4 to view it, so i'm downlaoding it now, and cs4 is 1GB big!!!!! why does adobe make their products larger in file size all of the time?

Graah? How Is That Possible?