Erick Henrique wrote:
I go yumwload this game and to test. I am interested for creation of art
for open games. Who knows I can help.
The number of images needed is small enough (not all the graphics need
to be replaced) that I think we don't need some dedicated
infrastructure, a page in the wiki is enough. You can start the page
yourself or I can help with that.
I think it is OK if you want to go with a completely different graphic
style, the downside would be that the graphics have to be consistent, so
you would have to remake all the images.
However, I am not sure how to put the graphics back in the .pak file for
testing, so I add Hans on CC, maybe he can give some insight.
Note for Hans:
[nicu@hell]$ file starfighter.pak
starfighter.pak: Quake I or II world or extension
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
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
<http://people.atrpms.net/%7Ehdegoede/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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