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Frogboy
Frogboy
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Opportunities to work on GalCiv with Stardock

January 27, 2018 5:37:00 PM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

Greetings!

We have a couple of positions that the operations team want to send out but I wanted to first post this here so that GalCiv fans had a first crack at it.

First, we have to rewrite the GalCiv III user manual, largely from scratch, to handle the base game, crusade and soon Intrigue.  This is a technical writing project (i.e. you need to know how to communicate information well visually).  

Secondly, I would really like to work with someone who is interested in redoing the tutorials and other elements with me.  As someone who started out as a modder, I have a general preference to work with others who understand what new players would want to know which requires a great deal of both technical and gameplay understanding.

If you are interested, respond here.

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pheonixstorm
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Reply #1 January 28, 2018 3:32:55 AM
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Glad to see this.

For the writing. How will this be handled for anyone who bought into the game from Crusade and hasn't played the base game? As for Intrigue I can assume that writing will start once the new expansion is closer to being finished? Will it be three separate user manuals or a single general manual with sections covering each portion of the game (Vanilla, Crusade, Intrigue)? Does it include layout as well as writing and knowledge of Acrobat/InDesign or will the initial work be handled via Word (or a clone) and sent off to someone else to handle the layout etc?

For the tutorials. Will this include modding the files or just design of the tutorial (look and feel) with modding left to someone else?

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Publius of NV
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Reply #2 January 28, 2018 4:09:46 AM
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This is something that I would really be interested in, but I am currently on a cruise across the Pacific with limited internet most of the way. If you need help in the future, or still need help in March after I get back, I hope you will post again.

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trims2u
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Reply #3 January 28, 2018 2:29:11 PM
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Frogboy, would you be interested in having a community-run Patch and Mod portal, version-controlled and issue-tracked?  I've set up a preliminary one, but it would be best if we could coordinate with StarDock to insure that it's easier to uptake community patches and fixes, as well as syncing issue tracking...

In all honesty, not having this is kinda annoying, since we all end up doing it ourselves and both the code fixes and keeping track of bugs/issues is completely opaque...

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lyssailcor
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Reply #4 January 28, 2018 5:01:44 PM
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If help could be contributed remotely ... ?

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pheonixstorm
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Reply #5 January 28, 2018 5:24:37 PM
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I have a sneaking suspicion that the data might be handled by an access  database or some program that uses a database backend. Which would mean the idea of version control wouldn't work well in this case. In either case this isn't the thread for that discussion anyway.

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