Code

• Languages: C++, and Python(only when required for plugins like story and movies)
• Will be examined by us for security problems, stability, other factors and will ask you to fix it(if significant), or we will fix the problems
• Please document code as you develop. This isn't as important as long as we know what is going on in it.
• Readability is important
• Use most efficent cross platform(ANSI complient, but perfered to not have STL or templetes) C++ code
• An Article about cheating on internet based games
• A discussion on code optimization
• GameDev.Net and Game Dictionary
• Some AI related links that might be interesting
  • Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
  • State of the AI
  • Some info on flocking
  • Some Exploring Emergence Docs
  • Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters

World Design

• Formats: Crystal Space Worldfile, Crystal Space , or any MAP varient(quake, quake 2, halflife etc)
• Due to size, warn us if you are sending it through email, or put it up on an FTP site(perfered)
• Levels from Underwater to Mountain peaks to the limits of space aka pretty much anything
• Crystal View-A Crystal Space texture, Model, world repository
  
• Ideas
  • Levels that you could have multiple ways planned to beat depending on where you are on the story.
  • Put in challenges that force player to look deeper into the enviroment like Halflife
  • First level is an attack on a semi-primitive planet(like modern Earth). Hills leading to the small town that you start your attack with. needs secret tunnel underneath hills.
  • A level in the middle of Sand Dunes/Hills that has a fog. Inside is a military base. In surrounding area are tunnels.

3D Modeling

• Formats: Crystal Space Model Format, 3ds, Quake(mdl), QuakeII(md2), ASE, DXF, HRC, iv, OBJ, POV, SMF, STLA, TXT, VLA, and Blender's Format
  • Perferred Fromats: Crystal Space Model Format, 3ds, mdl, md2
• Due to size, warn us if you are sending it through email, or put it up on an FTP site(perfered)
• Look at story for ideas of units, but practically anything will do
• Model Repository Links
  • Free Models-A free quake model repository.
  • Crystal View-A Crystal Space texture, Model, world repository
    

Texture

• Formats: GIF, TGA, PNG, BMP, JPG
  • Perferred Format: Png
• Anything that would work including enviroment stuff, model 'skins' and anything else
• Due to size, warn us if you are sending it through email, or put it up on an FTP site(perfered)
• Texture Repository Links
  • Graphtallic
  • Crystal Space texture Archive-Not so well organized, searchable texture repository
    
  • Free textures-Free Textures intended for Quake :-)
    
  • Crystal View-A Crystal Space texture, Model, world repository
    

Music

• Formats: MIDI, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Wave. We want a songs sent to us in the best quality/size ratio(Ogg) if possible. We can always convert between formts though.
• Due to the fact that we are planning on having music change with mood, almost all tempos/styles are good
• Some moods we are looking for are Gothic, Futuristic, Gloomy, and anything else.
• Music with styles like many modern games is great
• Due to size, warn us if you are sending it through email, or put it up on an FTP site(perfered)

SoundFX

• Formats: Wave, MP3, Ogg Vorbis. We want a songs sent to us in the best quality/size ratio(Ogg) if possible
• Due to size, warn us if you are sending it through email, or put it up on an FTP site(perfered)
• We are looking for sounds that make sense for
  • Weapons
  • Vehicles
  • Creatures
  • Enviroments

Story and Game Design

• Formats: Text, HTML, WordPerfect, StarOffice
• OMIGG is meant to have several stories including time period, place, even universe. So it will be a pretty flexible system. Story's will be plug-ins to it. Recompiling for new stories will most likely be uneeded.
• A Peek Into Game Design