Game graphics needed - Project: Starfighter

Erick Henrique br4in5t0rmm at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 14:53:21 UTC 2008


Hi Nicu

I go yumwload this game and to test. I am interested for creation of art for
open games. Who knows I can help.

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Erick Goes

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>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).
>
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