Development:Projects and Teams

Projects

Here is a list of the current projects under development.

Project	Team	Description	Monster Reservations	Item Reservations	Map Reservations	New NPCs
Alpha Server	Frost, Jenalya, alastrim, Wombat	First line of defense against bugs. Pulls from the server-test repository.				Watch out for debugging NPCs on the Alpha server, they can help with testing.
Ancient Amulets	Ali-G, Enchilado, alastrim	Five quests leading to different Four-Leaf Amulets of different strengh.	Shadow Elemental (1st Quest)	Four-Leaf Amulets	024-3 to 024-8	Explorer
Barbarian Hunting Grounds	Jenalya, alastrim, o11c	Barbarians hunt large game as a way of life.	Hungry Fluffy, Wolf monster	Yeti Skin Shirt	033 & 034	Barbarian NPCs
Thermin	Lien, Jenalya, Ali-G, alastrim	Kaizei area town. Once a large town that mined the firerock stones beneath the town, it was devastated by a poison gas leak. During the crisis to survive, they collaborated on several new technologies to both defend the town from the rampaging Yeti surrounding the town and to find ways to get back to using the mine, despite the poison gas problem.		GasMask, Monocle		Gasmask steam punk NPC, clockwork armor NPC, barbarian NPCs, generic pose NPCs
Thermin Poisonous Mine	Ali-G, Dark_Mage,	Poison gas mine. A constant moving adventure with puzzles and traps to solve and disarm along the way. Suggestions: Barriers of some type, puzzle mini-games (input code words chosen at random, arrange items, push buttons in a certain order, kill a certain monster on the map), a poison map flag, the use of event monster scripting instead of _mobs.txt spawning.	Ice Skull, Purple Slime, Acid Goblin, Longjohn, Serqet, Fire Lizard	Firerock, Savior Chest Armor, Savior Leg Armor, Overlord Helmet, Paladin Helmet, 1,000 bone arrows	043
Crypt	Nmaligec, Argul	Reaper boss quest	Reaper, scythe, the lost, ball lightning, vampire bat	Death's Hand, Reaper blade
Lumber Camp	Poison Ivy, O11c	Southern Argaes expansion. Quests include: Help the Lumberjacks/Save the Dell (a choice); the Naturalist's Studies; ?			035-039
Kageville	Kage	TBA			040

Teams

Name	Member(s)	Role
The Mana World - Athena Leader	Wombat	Coordinate tmwA. Network and delegate tasks. Increase participation.
Sound Lead	Yubabax116	Determines if sound on the forums is ready for the game. Encourages people to get involved in sound and encourage players to try their hand at sound. Attempts to meet the [REQ]s of content developers as well as creates any sound that may seem to add to the project, from monsters to maps to battle and beyond.
Art Director	Poison_Ivy	Determines if art on the forums is ready for the game. Adds tags to be put on art topics. Encourage artists contribute to the game and encourage players to try their hand at art. Understand content priorities and attempt to steer art to meeting content [REQ]s when an artist is open to suggestion.
Source Lead	o11c	Adjusts and coordinates Athena source code. Meets content team requests for source code adjustments to further content. Research and development of Athena source code and scripting conventions.
General Content Team	Argul, Wombat, Jenalya, Alastrim, theKandiman, Poison_Ivy	Coordinates non-sound/non-art related content, adds content to the gitorious repositories. Review content for mainline release. Give reservations for requested maps. Give reservations for existing items, equipment and monsters in their respective databases. Communicates through IRC with the General Content Team, the Content Lead and Administration. Channel: #tmw-dev Server: irc.themanaworld.org
Monster Skills Lead	Nmaligec	Research and development with monster skills for complex monsters.
XML Team	Poison Ivy, Wombat, Ali-G	Fixes item, equipment, monsters, particles, player-set etc. images and xml for game animation.
Mapping Team	Ali-G	Given maps by the General Content Team for review. Check for proper use of black border, collision tiles, and application of tiles onto the correct layers they belong on. Fix mapping errors. If map has many errors, the Mapping team can return the map to its creator for fixing.
Skills and Magic Team	Jenalya, Argul	Research and development of skills and magic.
Balance	General Content Team	Create a new balance system that can be understood by present and future tmwAthena developers and uses equipment tiers.
Battle Systems Team	Phoenix Council (theKandiman)	Research and development of a working battle system for the game using various balance parameters as guidelines.