Very puzzled
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:07 am
I just found globulation. It's an excellent game with a very nearly finished feel. I expected the community to be booming.
This place is like a tomb... what's happened? Is there anyone lurking about who can explain the lack of interest in finishing globulation? It's like 1 version behind a ver1 release! Why is there not a teeming community of devs and contributors trying to get it to professional level, like other open-source strategy game projects at that level?
From my limited experience, I noticed a few things to start...
1) I hunted around for several minutes and could not find a list of contributor requests. There is no page of art that's needed, no page of systems that are being programmed, nothing like that. Usually open-source projects put those right on the front page. What gives?
2) There doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in attracting people from other communities and alerting people to globulation's existence. I dunno about that one too much, except that I only found it by tripping over it in apt-get on xubuntu. Bit of a niche market there.
I think globulation is pretty frigging awesome. I am an artist (without too much time for big projects, but enough to contribute) and I'd love to see it go somewhere further. Where are all the secret files on helping kept? Where are all the players and developers?
Cheers!
Erk
This place is like a tomb... what's happened? Is there anyone lurking about who can explain the lack of interest in finishing globulation? It's like 1 version behind a ver1 release! Why is there not a teeming community of devs and contributors trying to get it to professional level, like other open-source strategy game projects at that level?
From my limited experience, I noticed a few things to start...
1) I hunted around for several minutes and could not find a list of contributor requests. There is no page of art that's needed, no page of systems that are being programmed, nothing like that. Usually open-source projects put those right on the front page. What gives?
2) There doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in attracting people from other communities and alerting people to globulation's existence. I dunno about that one too much, except that I only found it by tripping over it in apt-get on xubuntu. Bit of a niche market there.
I think globulation is pretty frigging awesome. I am an artist (without too much time for big projects, but enough to contribute) and I'd love to see it go somewhere further. Where are all the secret files on helping kept? Where are all the players and developers?
Cheers!
Erk