[tsc-devel] Fw: Would you be interested in rejoining the (SMC) project...

Chris Jacobsen | Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:18:28 UTC

      On Friday, January 16, 2015 1:02 PM, Markus Hiebl <…l@f…> wrote:
   

 Hello,

I'm happy to hear, that the project isn't dead. And also develops in a
direction I personally like.

But I'm sorry to say, that I don't have much time to spare. I work
full-time in customer support, which is extremely draining. And most
days I simple don't want to turn my PC on. And this little time I spend
is at the moment used for my own project, which develops at a glacial
pace. Most of the time I'm just busy with re-factoring things, that a
few weeks ago sounded like a good idea.

Also, I consider myself more a bad programmer then a bad artist. Back
then I was mostly toying around with Inkscape, without really getting
anywhere.

Something that also turned me off is, that there isn't a useful style
guide. There is of course http://wiki.secretchronicles.de/StyleGuide ,
but without any pictures as references this isn't much help. Also, there
is a lot of important information missing. Like for example
level of detail or allowed side-ratio. And if I remember correctly the
question if gradients are allowed or are just evil was never answered.

Although I have to stress, that this isn't the reason for not
participating, but would have been my focus.

Anyway, I wish you best luck with this project,

Sincerely,
Hiebl

Am 2015-01-09 um 01:17 schrieb Chris Jacobsen:
>  
> FrostBringer,
> 
> We have continually been working toward Release 2.0 of Secret Maryo
> Chronicles.  It will be the first release in five years.  We are getting
> fairly close to having a tangible release now.
> 
> Actually, we are changing the name of the game to "The Secret Chronicles
> of Dr. M" (also known as T.S.C.). This is in order to remove "Maryo", a
> clear reference to "Mario". We are likewise swapping out other Mario
> graphics with new, original graphics.  Bugsbane (helios) has posted a
> number of new graphics for this, but there are still a number left to
> change.
> 
> Quintus is the project lead, and Luiji is second in command now.  I have
> been working on a draft for the new story myself.  We have 4/5
> programmers, up to 3 musicians, up to 2 artists, and a number of beta
> testers now. 
> 
> Many of the artists have limited time (or sometimes get busy), so if you
> are able to contribute any artwork again, it could help us keep the
> project moving quickly.  You had contributed a good number of assets to
> the SMC game before.  We'd love to see what you might be able to produce
> for the latest version of the game.
> 
> Quintus has posted a new website on a new server and with a new forum
> at: http://www.secretchronicles.de/en/.  This will give us the admin
> access we need to manage the site and allow us to directly combat spam bots.
> 
> We maintain the issue tracker for features/bugs (along with code and
> assets at): https://github.com/Secretchronicles/TSC
> Our IRC Channel is #secretchronicles on freenode.net
> Our mailing list is …l@l…
> 
> Thank you,
> Chris Jacobsen (datahead)