FreeKODA/Seeking help

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If interested developers can be found, the game's source might get released to the public.

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Related projects

If you find related projects, please list them here. If you contact anybody asking for help, please write here your name/nick and whom you contacted and when and if/what reply you received. If you post to a forum, asking for help, add the link to this list.

Open source games and engines

Many projects in this list never released any version, the developers still might be interested in joining a bigger project though.

  • CHOMM - qubodup sent emails to appocolypes and strikernzl on 2008-03-31

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Message patterns

Patterns for posting messages to forums or writing letters to developers, asking for help on developing KODA.

Letter

Here is a proposal letter for contacting developers of related projects:

Do not aimlessly send the email, make sure nobody has contacted the person you are about to write to before. Check the related projects list below. Make sure you replace <addressee> and <your name>.

Subject: Help needed for porting a 2D TBS/RTS game written in VB 6.0

Hello <addressee>,

I am writing to you, because I noticed the game project, which you are involved in.

The developers of the win32-only The Kings of the Dark Age ( http://thekingsofthedarkage.cateia.com/ ) agreed to release the game's source code and media under the GPL, if a development team would agree to take up the task of porting the game from Visual Basic 6.0 to a portable languge. (C++ and Python was proposed by the game's developers.)

If you are interested in supporting the project, or want to learn more about it and the plan to port it, please visit the forum thread about releasing the source on the official forums ( http://cateia.com/games/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=41 ) or the wiki page on FreeGameDev, which tries to combine in a nutshell, what might be relevant for interested developers ( http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/The_Kings_of_the_Dark_Age ).

If you whish to help porting the game, I suggest that you introduce yourself at the official forums. You are also welcome to join the discussion about this game on the FreeGameDev forums ( http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=905&start=0 ).

Best regards, <your name>.

Forum post

Here is a proposal for a forum post, inviting developers to help port the game:

Do not aimlessly post this message, make sure nobody has posted this issue to the forum, which you are about to post to. Check the related projects list below and use that forum's search function. Make sure you post to the correct sub-forum.

Subject: Help needed for porting a 2D TBS/RTS game written in VB 6.0

Hello,

I am posting here, because the game [url=http://thekingsofthedarkage.cateia.com/]The Kings of the Dark Age[/url] (KODA) has a chance of getting released under the GPL (code and media) if a team of developers can be found, who will port the game from Visual Basic 6.0 to a portable language. (C++ and Python was proposed by the game's developers.)

If you are interested in supporting the project, or want to learn more about it and the plan to port it, please visit the [url=http://cateia.com/games/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=41]forum thread about releasing the source[/url] on the official forums or the [url=http://wiki.freegamedev.net/index.php/The_Kings_of_the_Dark_Age]wiki page on FreeGameDev[/url], which tries to combine in a nutshell, what might be relevant for interested developers.

If you wish to help porting the game, I suggest that you introduce yourself at the official forums. You are also welcome to join the [url=http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=905&start=0]discussion about this game on the FreeGameDev forums[/url].

Here are two screens of the game's battles:
[img]http://nothingdoesntsuck.googlepages.com/koda1.jpg[/img][img]http://nothingdoesntsuck.googlepages.com/koda2.jpg[/img]
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