OFProject Introduction

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Welcome!

Dear and fellow reader, by checking this page you have shown interest in the OpenFrag project or any part of it. This introduction will hopefully learn you all you need to know regarding this project. It will outline all components of OpenFrag, the people behind it, our working strategy, services we offer and a lot more. Enjoy!


What is OpenFrag?

OpenFrag (oF) is an open source project with the aim of creating a well designed open source engine, a game and an editor to accompany it. oF has an active community, experienced developers (some even from famous AAA titles!), very fun and educative to work with. The goal of this project primarily is to show people what it's like to build a commercial grade game, teach them and have fun as a team.

Our project uses third party that have been chosen with the utmost care and meet our demands as much as possible, we chose not to reinvent the wheel which has caused so much other projects to fail. In fact, the way we work was directly influenced by doing things differently than the projects that have already met their demise.

If you have always thought that developing your own game would be nearly impossible then here is the chance to experience yourself, and have a lot of fun trying. Developing a game model takes us from concept drawing to a fully 3d model and then texturing and animation will have to be applied, a real challenge that requires a lot of energy but is more than rewarding. Coding is needed to add game functionality, sound effects and music have to be created to let the players submerge in the game. So we don't only need a lot of people, we also need them in a lot of different categories.

Open source, open mind, OpenFrag!


The people behind OpenFrag

OpenFrag has been founded by Wilbert 'IFASS' van de Ridder in 2003 as a naive hobby project back then. Somehow the idea gained enough attention to establish a pretty big team. Although due mostly to in-experience in game development most of the team quickly left in the months that followed. Now years have past and there has always been a small core team that kept OpenFrag alive, consisting of:

  • Wilbert 'IFASS' van de Ridder (Founder/Management/Media)
  • Geert 'MrPierce' Schoots (Management)
  • Sander 'Brainless' Bisschops (Coding)
  • Simon 'Simun' de la Court (Website/PR)

Besides these four people there are numerous people that are still around and have proven very dedicated and helpful to OpenFrag, to name a few:

  • Lars 'Levia' Wesselius (Coding)
  • Pedro 'Xor' (Coding)
  • HawVer (Lurker)
  • Rrebel (Lurker)
  • Tapio (Sound)
  • b0101 (Coding)
  • Sai_Co (Art)
  • DerTee (Art)
  • Th0br0 (Coding)

The full credit list of OpenFrag can be found here.

OpenFrag Services

Frontpage
The frontpage is the entrance to the OpenFrag domain. From here you can navigate through various parts of the site. The frontpage itself lists mainly news regarding oF.

Forum
Besides IRC the primary mean of communication. This is were new art is shown, discussions are held and announcements are made. Very easy is using the Active Threads to check on new topics.

IRC
IRC is besides the forum our main way of communication. Most of the OpenFrag developers can be found there in the evening (~gmt+0). If you're unfamiliar with IRC, you can download a standalone client like mIRC or use our Web-IRC.

Wiki
The wiki is a very important part of oF. Almost anything you need is listed here, like articles, building instructions, guidelines, tips, roadmaps, you name it and it's there.

Fileserver
Our fileserver is used by the members to store their work. You can obtain your own directory and write access to this by asking Simun.

Taskmanager
The taskmanager is used by the team to divide and keep track of tasks.

SourceForge
Sourceforge is a well-known open source portal. Here common info about oF can be found, as well as releases and the source code.

SVN
The source code is stored on the svn repository hosted by sourceforge.net. Check the Compiling instructions for more info.

Bugtracker
The mantis bugtracker is used to report bugs of OpenFrag, Anvil and OpenCDS.

CIA
The CIA page is a very handy tool to keep track of the latest commits made to the source code.

Ohloh
Ohloh is an open source directory that anyone can edit. It features comprehensive metrics and analysis on thousands of open source projects.



OpenFrag Projects

OpenFrag Game
TODO
Anvil
TODO
OpenCDS
TODO


Joining OpenFrag

The following positions are available to apply for:
Content

  • Concept Artist
  • 3D Modeller
  • Texture artist
  • Animator
  • Shader programmer
  • Music composer
  • Sound effects artist


Programming

  • C++ programmer
  • Java programmer
  • Ogre3D expert
  • Platform maintainer (windows/linux/mac)


Communication

  • Website maintaining
  • News poster
  • Forum moderation
  • Public relations


If you're interested in helping out the development of OpenFrag, the best way to do it is to visit the forum and post a topic about yourself. Or (better even, do it anyway!) visit IRC (or Web-IRC. We encourage you to tell us a bit about yourself, along with any skills and experience; don't forget to include any portfolio if available!

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