Development:Projects and Teams

Projects

Here is a list of the current projects under development. You can see the list of developers here.

Project	Team	Description	Monster Reservations	Item Reservations	Map Reservations	New NPCs	Status
Trade City Argaes	V0id	Assassin Guild quest (Miriam follow-up) in Trade City		Assassin Set			Scenario writing.
New Desert Area (Argaes)	Yubaba	Creating Desert maps, area further from Tulimshar and new quests.	Snake Lord, Desert Monsters	Snake Skin Armour, Desert bow		Desert/Egyptian NPCs	Mapping and quest writing in progress, tileset art needed
East Argaes	Jenalya, tux9th	Extension to the east, including farmlands, port-city, waterfall area	Farmmobs	TBA	057 - 067	Farm NPCs	Mapping in progress, tileset art needed
Orum and Waric Continuation	Jenalya, tux9th, mrgrey	Continuation of the Orum and Waric quest.	Evil Woodland monsters	Rose hat, magical flowers	055, 056		Scripting in progress
Barbarian Village (Kaizei).	Jenalya, tux9th	A village of barbarians yet to be named.	TBA	TBA	049, 050, 053, 054	Barbarian NPCs	tilesets missing
Lumber Camp (Argaes)	o11c	Southern Argaes expansion. Quests include: Help the Lumberjacks/Save the Dell (a choice); the Naturalist's Studies; ?			035-039		on hold, graphics missing?
Thermin (Kaizei)	Jenalya, 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	tilesets missing
Thermin (Kaizei) Poisonous Mine	Alastrim	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,	043		tilesets missing
Crypt	Skipy,Yubaba	Reaper boss quest	Reaper, scythe, the lost, ball lightning, vampire bat	Death's Hand, Reaper blade			tileset incomplete, art developer inactive.
Ancient Amulets	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	on hold, developer inactive
Kageville	Kage	TBA			040		on hold, developer inactive
Hetchel the silk weaver [376] (Tulimshar)	bh28,Jenalya,Chef Chelios.	Lora Tay says she can sew Silk Robes provided you give her some silk sheets.and that Hetchel in Tulimshar can weave them for you.		Silk Sheet [891], dyed Silk Sheets [2250 to 2259]	021-1	Hetchel (376)	Hetche graphics update, 021-2 : add weaver workshop
Tulimshar expansion	wushin		Caboo		068-073		Mapping in progress, scenario writing

Teams

Here is a list of all the different developer teams. You can see the list of developers here.

Name	Member(s)	Role
The Mana World - Athena Leader	Jenalya	Coordinates tmwA. Network and delegate tasks. Increase participation.
Content Lead	Jenalya	Coordinates tmwA General Content (non-sound, non-art).
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.
Sound Lead	Yubaba	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.
Pixel Artists	Nami, Salmondine	Determines if art is ready for the game. Helps categorize 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 art deadlines.
Mapping Lead		Reviews maps for the game. Check for proper use of black border, collision tiles, and application of tiles onto the correct layers they belong on. Fix mapping errors.