The March Announcement is about

[paperclips]

hehehehe damn thats good!

[tZork]

spot on.

[tChr]

If you don’t mind me asking, what did you contribute to the code or artwork?

I will answer this too, because what you are e adressing is a very important part of this being a community project.

Personally I've not contributed that much, not nearly as much as some othe rpeople, but that is the point. Allthough huge bulks of the project is made by some few people, there is also massive amounts of the game that is made out of small peices from a very large number of people. Thus generating the "*we* made this"-spirit.

Personally the only things i can think of is:
* I worked a lot with kadaver on reimplementing instagib 0.1 into what turned out as minstagib 0.3 and newer, allthough kadaver did all the real work (programming and structuring) some main ideas were briught to the table by me, including cell packs as automatic replacements for nex and RL, the extra lives effect upon powerup pickup, the secondary laser jump and the countdown (which i made the fist sounds for), i also did a lot of testing on this.
* I worked some with kadaver with testing and balancing of LMS.
* I made the 1.5 (or was it 1.2.1 grenade bounce sounds (after many requests from the community as the 1.0 sounds were crap. I am not sure if these sounds are still in the game (it might sound like they were used as the basis for the current sounds, if the current soudns are new). These sounds were made from scratch and was pure original nexuiz content.
* I've run several game servers over the time, including lots of testing servers for new maps etc 8at one point i ran over 10% of the public nexuiz servers)
* i think I'm still a 3on3 cft ladder admin (allthoug I'm not sure, as I've been away for some time)
* I've fronted the game a lot in the national and semi-national media, and I've managed to get the game into competition status at lan parties, thus spreading the word
* i did run, and is still running one of the 3 master servers

I've also (at least earlier) been constanly helping out people with questions on IRC and in the forums.

The important part is that this is nothing special.. many different people has done different things, that is what makes this a community effort.


edit:
ohyeah.. i started at 1.0 as well (C failed to mention he was away for a loong time some time after 1.2.1 oir thereabouts something about "real life", whatever that is)

edit2:
And I shamelessly take credit for pushing for newtonian physics for so long it was implemented, probably to stop me from nagging or something

[michaelb]

This is also what I object to. I do not mind if the developers try to make money out of the code they developed.

I do mind, however, if people make money out of a value (the name "Nexuiz") that they very little contributed to without giving back to those who contributed in turn.

Exactly. Nexuiz is among the most well-known names in the open source gaming community, and among the very few to make it into the mainstream gaming mind-share.

Personally I've not contributed that much, not nearly as much as some othe rpeople, but that is the point. Allthough huge bulks of the project is made by some few people, there is also massive amounts of the game that is made out of small peices from a very large number of people. Thus generating the "*we* made this"-spirit.

+1
All I did was contribute a set of sound effects I recorded. I strongly doubt they are still being distributed with recent releases. However, we all contributed to the value of the name "Nexuiz", even if the content of our contributions have since been replaced (or are to be replaced by IllFonic).

[PinkRobot]

Domain for sale, any acceptable offer:

http://www.nexuiznews.com

[halogene]

ROFL

[azultain]

* This in no way means the development of the cross platform Nexuiz will stop. Nexuiz has always been a community driven project and will continue to be so, the PC and Console version will be completely separate entities. Development of the cross platform Nexuiz will continue to be open. No new content of Illfonic's art will be GPL or added to Alientrap's development of Nexuiz, although the project will benefit from advances in the engine's technology.
* If the game is successful there will be royalty in the way of percentage of the game's profits once it is sold. Since Nexuiz is a community driven project Alientrap will be open with the royalty rates, these profits will help to maintain and develop Nexuiz along with Alientrap's projects in the future. Terms of the agreement are confidential but Alientrap will be open to it's developers on the splits the company receives.
* The Nexuiz.com domain has been personally given to Illfonic by me in order to help spread the word on the new project.

that is good news

[paperclips]

Domain for sale, any acceptable offer:

http://www.nexuiznews.com

[paperclips]

Made a signature (apparently), added sauce for the world/known universe/multiverse to edit, use and spread the word across the vast expanding seas of internets.