Game graphics needed - Project: Starfighter

[Nicu Buculei]

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 at 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).

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