Projects

Here is a list of the current projects under development.

Project	Team	Description	Monster Reservations	Item Reservations	Map Reservations	New NPCs
Tutorial	Jenalya	Tutorial area in a Tulimshar suburb.		Cotton Shirt, Knife, Sharp Knife	042-1 & 042-2	Sorfina, Tanisha, Hasan, Kaan, Valon
Rossy Quests	Ali-G, Dark Mage	A string of quests connected to Rossy and her family. It starts with fetch quests and finishes with several battles happening in some horrible caves.	Fey Element, Earth Spider, Earth Scorpion, Larvespa, Vespa	Black Boots		Clauquer, Rossy, Julia, Olana
Hide and Seek	Dark Mage, Ali-G	A labyrinth adventure to get the Four Leaf Clover to the enchanted silver pool.		Four Leaf Clover Necklace	024-3 & 024-4
Barbarian Hunting Grounds	Jenalya, djai	Barbarians hunt large game as a way of life.	Wolf monster	Yeti Skin Shirt	033 & 034	Barbarian NPCs
Thermin	djai, 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, djai	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
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	Poison Ivy, 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.
Skills and Magic Lead	Argul	Research and development of skills and magic.
Balance	General Content Team, Art Director	Create a new balance system that can be understood by present and future tmwAthena developers and uses equipment tiers.