Charas Community Project Thread

[SaiKar]

aboutasoandthis's evaluation and suggestions are wise. If you guys approach this seriously rather than a "yay whatever!" style that the previous efforts had, I believe that you'll have a stronger chance of success.

And I may consider throwing my own hat into the ring as well. I was becoming quite a decent character set spriter for a while there.

[Red Fox]

I could make some charsets.

[Cosmos]

I told you that you might as well harv.  :p  and I didn't like the previous stories much............... which is why I never joined........... <<........

[aboutasoandthis]

So...when are we starting this?

[Shady Ultima]

MM, probably when I get Moose/Razor to tell me that I'm mod of the CC boards, and I know for sure who's all interested. Then whoever is on writing team will meet with me on msn, and we'll start going from there.

[Osmose]

Promising, but go ahead and do your MSN thing. I wanna see a little story intro/draft before we mod you.

[Shady Ultima]

Important update!!!!

I have added everyone who has expressed interest to my msn. So if Patrickc_999@hotmail has added you, that's ME!

Now, onto more serious business. As of so far, this is who has expressed interest in the fields.

Story team
Aboutaso
Midnight
Phayre
Shady Ultima

Battle Chars team
Prpl_mage
Dren2120 ?

Monsters
Prpl_mage

Face Sets

Music team
Dren2120
coasterkrazy
coolzidane

Mapping team

Char set team
ShadyUltima
Phayre
Red Fox

Coding
Aboutaso

So, as you can see, we need mappers, face makers and some other people to help with coding. All teams are still open to new people as well, as long as stuff gets done.

There's also dialogue writers needed. This includes the more simple stuff, that really doesn't progress the storyline, for example townspeople's banter and such. As well, weapons, items and spells need to be chosen, unless everyone decides we just use the ones already provided by the program.

Also, first meeting will be Saturday, August 11th at 5PM Charas time. If anyone has a problem with this, let me know immediately.

[Phayre]

6:00 Eastern, I think. I should be able to do that.

[aboutasoandthis]

Turns out I'm going out of town on Sunday. I may or may not have internet access there.

However, I can still make the first storyline meeting. Like Phayre said, 6:00 eastern.

[coasterkrazy]

I wouldn't mind helping with some dialogue either (storyline or non-storyline). However, I think it would be best to have a general agreement concerning the script before starting it. I also think it would be a problem if many people were to write the script, because then there would be random changes in writing style. To solve this problem, I propose we have a small group of editors to collaborate on making the writing in the script fit in the game. I would gladly be part of that group.

Also, just throwing an idea out there, would anyone agree we need a name? I think if we are approaching this seriously, then we need to be united under a team name. Let's not turn it into an argument though; that's the number one thing I think we need to avoid. I think it should be something simple, such as Charas Community Project Team. I know there are plenty of talented photoshop artists too, and I think whoever volunteers to make a logo should make one and that should be the end of it. There shouldn't be a whole bunch of logos and a voting process or anything. That, I think, is the reason why we never ended up with a new forum banner.

[Cosmos]

I hope there will be commitment this time...... <<

[Phayre]

I think the first order of business is setting, then at least preliminary story, then the title. Unless we want to work backwards, which could work, but I'm not sure.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Scartch what I said... My freaking laptop's screen just blew up on me. No way I can work on anything now -.-

[Shady Ultima]

Originally posted by Phayre
I think the first order of business is setting, then at least preliminary story, then the title. Unless we want to work backwards, which could work, but I'm not sure.

I agree. After the story team has come up with the 3 basic ideas, which then will be voted on by the community, the story team will build on the chosen story, and come up with a title when we come up with it lol

[Phayre]

Ack, sorry. 6:00 tomorrow won't work for me, so we could either reschedule or I'll catch up later, I guess.