Our chief graphics artist had to temporarly stop working on the project due to personal issues. Although he will be back, it may take some time. Also, we weren’t able to find anyone to help with sound so far. (Re)Creation of game content has come to a stop, thus we are looking for people that could help us with one of the following:
- Remaking the original terain and unit tiles (graphics)
- Remaking/rerecording/editing free sound effects to replace the game’s sounds with better quality and to simply have a distribution not requiring extracting any files
- Composing new music for the game that would match the original’s spirit
Ofcourse its a free project, so except a place in the credits and satisfaction from work, you can not expect anything. On the other hand, we expect from you (in order of importance starting from the most important):
- Free time (and not “maybe i will have time or maybe not”. As much as we appriciate everyone’s attempt at helping us, undertaking a task and not delivering results creates chaos in team’s organisation)
- Some talent. Its a fan made game, so we obviously have lesser expectations as to quality of work compared to commercial games, non the less, a person only capable of doing some simple strokes in paint program/randomly adding dings and dongs in music composer should really reconsider if players will like the end result.
- Some work experience/knowledge of game mechanics/file formats used in the game/ techniques of making resources for games and general computer knowledge. This point is the least important, but it helps in communication.
Anyone who would like to help us and participate in the project, please contact us via e-mail, forum or irc. Irc would be the best way to communicate later, so would be good if the candiate could use it, but its not a requirement. If possible, please give us some examples of your previous work.
At the same time, i’d like to say that next patch is in the works, but i’ve been busy lately with other stuff, and only about 10% of planned fixes/additions has been made so far. Its a good opportunity for graphics/sound deparments to catch up a bit. 0.97 will be released eventually, but not soon.
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I don’t have the time to apply for a full-time position, but if there were a breakdown of all the art necessary with specifications (size, guidelines for art style, colors), I’d love to take a stab at some tiles/characters. I’d imagine that there could be more people out there willing to do the same (contribute in small part).
That’s exactly what i want to avoid. Working like that would mean i would not know who does what, how many people are doing the same thing, or maybe what isnt being done by anybody. Plus, the overal guidlines are simple, but there is always something poping up unexpected, often involving me having to change stuff in the code. I preffer to have 1-2 people doing graphics max, but in a way i could communicate with them and i knew more or less what they are working on.
Regarding the art -terrain, unit tiles- it might be a good idea if you posted the list of what needs to be made (or at least kept it updated in a place where you as well as the 1-2 artists can check on progress and divide the remaining work)
Too bad about the music, about a year back it looked like 1 or 2 people were on the right track.
Hi NeFuRii, i just wanted to say how awesome your efforts are, its massively appreciated and i simply cant wait for the full single player campaign
Noctilucus: People that will apply, will have a list/instructions what to do and on what files
. From head, i can tell you that missing are: civilians, xcom base, mutons, ethereals, reapers, silacoids, celatids, sectopods, chryssalids. Probably there is something more that ive forgotten, but greater part of the graphics is already done. Anyeone can simply compare in ufotts directory graphics_new (remade) with graphics_old (extracted). Any files that are in “old” but not in “new” should be remade.
Pete: thanks. Full campaing is in the game. Its just buggy at later stages that makes it hard to play
For first of all – sry for my poor english, but its not my mother language
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Ok, I like your game, and I think that Alien campaign is very good idea – so good luck… But you say, that your team are searching for a some kind of musican, because you planned remaster old music…
Ok, Im not a musican or some king of advertising bot
, but one of very similar fanpage developing his own version of Ufo: Enemy Unknown ( yes, Im searching about all of this remakes – from UFO: Alien Invasion, czech serie UFO – Aftermath, Afterligh, Aftershock ) – UFO: Cydonias Fall (http://ufo.yaa.dk/)… This game are only in beggining, its non-playable, but his remastered soundtrack is awesome… But that is all. If you want, you can hear it, but your version is still better, because they have playable multiplayer and alien campaing…
So good luck in the next development and I hope that patch 0.97 will be released soon…
I know that project. And i know someone concacted them and asked if they would let others use their music for another ufo remake. They declined.
Thats pitty…
I think that could be a solution but his reaction is understandable… So I wish you good luck with your project…
First: english isn’t my mother language, so please excuse it.
I want to say that to your team: I LOVE YOU GUYZ
I’m playing this game for 13 years and i dreamed about something like The Two Sides!
I want to do something for you, i know a musician (laptop music), i can spend a lot of time to translate in French all the texts (official french release) and if you don’t need any of these helps, i can donate to help your project.
Moreover, i will post on some forums (french ones) to make UFOTTS more famous.
Please contact me asap, and again: thank you! Thank you all!
If the musician is interested in doing musics for the project, then sure.
Hi,
I’m a massive fan of the Xcom series and would really like to help with the sound and music. I use Fruity Loops and Ableton in my spare time to make music from scratch so I’d love to put some skill to refining the original music score and sound. If I’m not too late please email me asap. I’ll be able to put in a good few hours per day doing it at the moment, but will always be able to do an hour or so a day and check in with you every day.
Let me know, I’d love to be part of remaking this fantastic game, and any other XCOM games in the future!
Thanks
Jonnycollison@gmail.com
Jonny