Projects
Here is a list of the current projects under development.
Tutorial
Description of Project:
Team: Jenalya
New Monsters (Monster Drops):
New NPCs:
Rossy Quests
Description of Project: A string of quests connected to Rossy and her family.
Team: Dark Mage, Ali-G
New Monsters (Monster Drops):
New NPCs: Forest Map NPC Cage (?)
Barbarian Hunting Grounds
Description of Project: Barbarians hunt large game as a way of life.
Team: Jenalya, Baseballboy, Chef Chelios, skipy
New Monsters (Monster Drops): Wolf monster
New NPCs: Barbarian NPCs
Thermin
Description of Project: 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.
Team: Wombat, Baseballboy, Lien
New Monsters (Monster drops): Fire lizard (Firerock)
New NPCs: Gasmask steam punk NPC, clockwork armor NPC, barbarian NPCs, generic pose NPCs (See the Art Challenge)
Items and Equipment: Top hat, bowler hat, monocle, gasmask
Thermin Poisonous Mine
Description of Project: 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.
Team: Ali-G, Baseballboy, Dark Mage, Wombat
New Monsters (Monster drops): Fire lizard (Firerock)
New NPCs:
Items and Equipment: Overlord Helmet, Paladin Helmet, Savior Chest Armor, Savior Leg Armor, 1,000 Bone Arrows
Crypt
Description of Project: Reaper boss quest
Team: Nmaligec, Argul
New Monsters (Monster drops): Reaper, scythe, the lost, ball lightning
Items and Equipment: Death's hand (area effect wand given as reward), reaper blade (reaper drop crafted into weapon)
Lumber Camp
Description: Southern Argaes expansion
Team: Poison Ivy, o11c
Quests: Help the Lumberjacks/Save the Dell (a choice); the Naturalist's Studies; ?
Kageville
Description: TBA
Lead: Kage
Quests: TBA
Miscellaneous
Description: A list of desired quests and npcs by various contributors. Some have more work than others.
Lead: Wombat
Quests and NPCs: Black Boots Quest, Desert Bow Quest, Chocolate Milk Quest, Sailor Hat Quest, Captain Hat Quest, Nivalis area Information NPC, Nivalis area storyline NPCs
Reservations
Here is a list of the reservations made for projects under development.
Map Reservations
| Map Number | Lead | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 033 - 034 | Jenalya | Barbarian/Thermin expansion |
| 035 - 039 | o11c | Logging Camp |
| 040 | Kage | Kageville |
| 041 - 042 | Jenalya | Beginner Village |
| 043 | Jenalya/Ali-G | Thermin/Poisonous Mine |
| 025-3 & 025-4 | Dark Mage/Ali-G | Rossy Quests Maps |
Teams
TMW-eA Content Lead: Wombat
Role: Coordinate TMW-eA content. Network and delegate tasks to progress usable content for the game. Increase development participation.
Balance
Team: General Content Team
Role: Create a new balance system that can be understood by present and future TMW-eA developers and uses equipment tiers.
Sound
Sound Team: Yubabax116
Role: 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
Graphics Team: Lien, Meway, Skipy, Poison_Ivy
Role: Determines if art on the forums is ready for the game. Requests tags to be put on art topics. Encourage artists contribute to the game and encourage players to try their hand at art. All art must have everything ready to be marked [RC], which includes adding the animation xml. Understand content priorities and attempt to steer art to meeting content [REQ]s when an artist is open to suggestion.
Player-set
Lead: Skipy
General Content
General Content Team: Argul, Wombat, Jenalya, Alastrim
Role: 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
Role: Deals with monster skills research and development for complex monsters.
XML
Lead: Wombat
Role: Fixes item, equipment, monsters, particles, player-set etc. images and xml for game animation.
Magic, Skills
Lead: Argul
Role: Develops and reviews magic and skills in the game for testing.
Mapping
Team: Baseballboy, Ali-G
Role: Given new 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. If map has many errors, the Mapping team can return the map to its creator for fixing.
