   EVOLUTIONS! Game - Developers: Invitation to Join
  Invitation for the Members of the GameDev Community  Team Name:EVOLUTIONS! Developer Community (non-registered, it is an online community)Project Name:EVOLUTIONS!Brief Description:The Evolution Goes On!We're starting to develop a 2nd Generation evolution game, called EVOLUTIONS!, and we invite everyone who has ideas for a great game play or game features or 3D modelling skills to join us! We're sure evweryone knows the game Spore, or has heard about it, at least. While the editors are quite nice, the game itself lacks gameplay options, and it is bundled with SecuRom. Also, it looks very cartoonish.In opposition to its predecessor (developed by a commercial company), EVOLUTIONS! will be a Freeware game, and the code will be developed as OpenSource. At the moment, we are inviting interested persons from all across the globe to join us, and to help getting this visionary game off the ground. We believe, only the status of OpenSource can give us the amount of skilled participants we want for a project of that scale.Target Aim:Game: Freeware, Game Source Code: OpenSourceCompensation:The project is published as FreeWare game with OpenSource code. Your participation is therefore on a non-commercial base. The entire project serves no financial purposes.Technology:OSs: Windows versions, Macintosh versions, Linux versions, Mobile Phone versions, specifig Game Console versions and affordability (not checked yet).Programming Language: C versions.Artist Tools: some 3D graphic engines in consideration, like I-Novae Engine (by Infinity DevTeam) and others, some physics engines in consideration, too.Sound Tools: consulting required. Talent Needed:- Website Developers- Graphic Artists- 3D Artists (Terran and alien body parts, space vehicle parts)- Persons with Legal Skills- Persons with Management/Organizational Skills- Software Developers (Games)- Persons with Physical Knowledge- Music Composers (Soundtracks)- Promoters- and everyone with cool ideas and visions!Team Structure:We got already twenty-five (25) team members on board of our growing international developer community, which are organized in so-called Thematic Groups, such as website development, forum management, game developers, graphic artists, 3D artists, etc.. My own function is CEO, Managing Director, Founder, and my name is Sven Littkowski. I am a German but live and work since ten (10) years in the Caribbean. However, the game is an international project, similar to the famous FreeWare and OpenSource render engine POV-Ray!Website:Forum (operational): http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/fFuture Website (under construction): http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.comContacts:Developer Forum: http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/fGame Document: http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/d/Evolutions!_Structure.pdfPlease sign up to our forum in order to become a team member.Previous Work by our Team:This is our first project. We seek to gain operational strength with this call to the public (and calls in other forums).Additional Info:While the evolutionary 1st-generation game Spore came with some interesting editors allowing to create fantasy life forms, its gameplay with its cartoonish look and poor options and left-out evolutional stage and possibilities was a big disappointment for the Spore community, after seven (7) years of waiting. Our own project, Evolutions!, is the 2nd generation evolutionary game, and seeks to fix all those lacknesses. Our creatures are intended to look ... real! And we will offer a wide range of professional editors. Also, we will build in a support for 3rd-party plugins to further enhance the gameplay! Most important: the game will be released under the FreeWare GNU and the code will be made available to the public as OpenSource, to further attract hundreds or even thousands of additional programmers! The game will target an age group from fifteen (15) to an unlimited upper end. And - we expect a big international media coverage based on the game specs and FreeWare/OpenSource status!Below illustrations how the game creatures could look alike (no existing samples, just graphical illustrations).http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/w/v/Deco/GreenMudJumper.pngAbove: Green Mud Jumperhttp://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/w/v/Deco/SmartDeepSeaWorm_20090207_193422.pngAbove: The WormFish creature still in aquatic stagehttp://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/w/v/Deco/SmartDeepSeaWorm_20090209_211704.pngAbove: The WormFish creature already evolved enough to live outside the waterhttp://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/w/v/Deco/Editor.jpgAbove: Sample of the Organisms EditorFeedback:Any feedback is welcome and appreciated! Please feel totally free. But better even, if you decide to join our growing international developer community!Welcome aboard!Sven LittkowskiCEO, Managing Director[Edited by - Hirnsausen on April 7, 2009 1:37:27 PM]
  You need to check out the posting template and edit your post to match it please. Thanks, Nathan   ;  Nathan, I will. Thanks.Still, feel invited to join us, that would be great!Sven   ;  Developers, programmers - please feel invited to join us at http://Evolutions.Jamaica-Focus.com/f, or to post your questions or suggestions here. Thanks!Sven   ;  I might be willing to help out as a web developer.  My web server won't be back online for another week or so, so I can't show you my portfolio right this moment, but if you would like to discuss my experience or see examples, feel free to contact me via the PM system here.   ;  Joshuad, I just sent you a PM. Please check.   ;  Everyone's welcome to join.Needed most: programmers, 3D artists.   ;  Wow, this sounds great! :)I wish I would have started C++ a year or so ago, then maybe I would have the skill to help you guys out. However, sadly, I didn't and only started very recently.However, I wish you & the whole team the best of luck. I'll follow this project closely, and maybe at some point I may be of some assistance.;  You still can join right away. We really welcome you.   ;  Who will become our 120th member? Join now!   