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. It starts by some fetch quests and finishes by several battles happening in some horrible caves.
Team: Dark_Mage, Ali-G
New Monsters (Monster Drops): Fey Element, Earth Spider, Earth Scorpion, Larvespa, Vespa
New NPCs: Clauquer, Rossy, Julia, Olana
Items and Equipment: Black Boots
Hide and Seek
Description of Project: A labyrinth adventure to get the four leaf clover to the enchanted silver pool.
Team: Dark_Mage, Ali-G
New Monsters (Monster Drops):
New NPCs:
Items and Equipment: Four Leaf Necklace
Balance
Team: General Content Team, Art Director
Role: Create a new balance system that can be understood by present and future TMW-eA developers and uses equipment tiers.
Barbarian Hunting Grounds
Description of Project: Barbarians hunt large game as a way of life.
Team: Jenalya, djai (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, djai (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, Dark_Mage
New Monsters (Monster drops): Ice Skull, Purple Slime, Acid Goblin, Longjohn, Serqet, 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, 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: Desert Bow Quest, Chocolate Milk Quest, Sailor Hat Quest, Captain Hat Quest, Nivalis area Information NPC, Nivalis area storyline NPCs
Map Reservations
| Map Number | Lead | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 024-3 & 024-4 | Ali-G, Dark Mage | Hide and Seek Labyrinth |
| 033 - 034 | Jenalya | Barbarian/Thermin expansion |
| 035 - 039 | o11c | Logging Camp |
| 040 | Kage | Kageville |
| 043 | Jenalya/Ali-G | Thermin/Poisonous Mine |
Teams
| Name | Member(s) | Role |
|---|---|---|
| TMW-eA Content Lead | Wombat | Coordinate TMW-eA content. Network and delegate tasks to progress usable content for the game. Increase development 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. |
| General Content Team | Argul, Wombat, Jenalya, Alastrim, theKandiman | 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 | Wombat, Ali-G | Fixes item, equipment, monsters, particles, player-set etc. images and xml for game animation. |
| Mapping Team | Ali-G, djai | 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. |
