elexis Posted May 29, 2016 Report Share Posted May 29, 2016 Following a recent staff meeting and being available as a self-employed software developer ('Freiberufler'), I hereby offer to do paid development to work beyond the duty of my staff member status. As such, I would plan the features for upcoming releases, be available on IRC to discuss pending tasks of the team and contributors, implement features and rewrite existing code to be more maintainable, review the proposed code of contibutors, write weekly progress reports and take miscellaneous incurring responsabilities, like balancing, testing, producing video trailers or server administration. My previous expertise covers both the scripted part of the game (graphical user interface, simulation, random-map-scripts), but also the core engine (GUI, network, lobby, serialization, pathfinder). As seen on trac, there are still more than 800 unsolved tasks, of which I could fix many directly or in cooperation with new contributors. Here an examplary list of features I envision to solve: Reveal hidden contents GUI horizontal scrollbars Gamesetup rewrite Summary screen graphs Game-info #3263 and network window #3787, chat history Improving ingame GUI and completing the tech-tree Automatic camera control when observing, extension of #3743 Uncommitted foundations shouldn't be seen by other players #2710 Visualize the attack range of units/buildings #3915 Minimap ping #3491 Hotkeys Add a configuration dialog to customize hotkeys Navigate menus with the keyboard #3235 Selecting and building structures #1899 #1312 Simulation / Gameplay features Giving fields a bonus depending on terrain #1318 #3997 Corraling #1907 Regicide gamemode #2160 Missing hero auras Fixing ship movements #3472 Camouflaging #3177 Trading between more than 2 markets #3872 Singleplayer campaign (would probably require a historian on board) Network code Dedicated hosting #3556 UDP port forwarding #2305 (merging fcxSanyas showcase into the game https://github.com/AlexanderOlkhovskiy/gloox-libnice-test) Multiplayer savegame loading #1088 Replay Mode Downloading full replays from the host #3963 Rewinding replays #3261 Performance optimization by using a cache #3433 Multiplayer Lobby Reduce rating or ban people who quit rated games early #3951 Show more information about running matches #3476 New random maps Performance optimizations of the simulation components and pathfinder are essential and could be approached in cooperation with team members who are familiar with all its fallacies. Further responsibilities could include project managing: Recommending tasks to team members and new contributors Organizing staff meetings in case the project leader is busy Video editing / promotional trailer Web-Development and server administration Writing release announcements 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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