Maybe some of you are familiar with a game named Project:
Starfighter[1], a shoot 'em up whcih used to be part of Fedora (it is
still available in Fedora 9 - use "yum install starfighter"):
[1] http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/starfighter.php
Unfortunately, this game is not entirely free, it uses some non-free
data files (mostly graphics, music and sounds) so it was temporarily
pulled from Fedora, until those graphics are replaced.
Hans de Goede, from the Games SIG[2], contacted me and asked for help:
while the music and sounds can be replaced with free equivalents from
other games, there is a need for new graphics.
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games
I persuaded Hans to file a request in the DesignService queue[3] and to
make the data available in an usable format[4] (it uses to be in a .pak
file which needed special tools to open).
[3]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DesignService#Graphics_for_the_game_starfighter
[4] http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/starfighter-data.tar.gz
Now what's needed from us: the tarball contains a "gfx" directory, with
a number of PNG images. Among those are some which need to be replaced:
character portraits and starfighter (and other spacecraft) images.
I have to witness that this is not my favorite game genre (I can't play
5 minutes before getting bored) and also I don't have experience in that
particular drawing style (pixel level tweaking in a raster editor), so
probably I won't do much for it (maybe I'll try some portraits).
So if anyone like this game and/or that style of graphics, this may be a
fun project and a noble goal (freeing a game).
--
nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com
Cool Fedora wallpapers: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/wallpapers/
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
my Fedora stuff: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro
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