[URC]: How YOU can help

[Mike Ciance]

I've noticed that many people think this project is "exclusive" and that it takes somethign special to be included. I'd like to clear this up by saying that anybody who wants to help is encouraged to. you don't need to be a programmer or an animator or have any special kind of knowledge to help. if you know enough about computers to be reading this thread, odds are you know enough that you can be of assistance.

here are some of the major areas people can get involved in:

• Documentation
  • Layout - diagramming user interfaces and other game aspects
  • Databasing - create lists and tables to organize information about the game
• Programming
  • gameplay - robot controls, game setup
  • menu interfaces - pre-game and pause menus
  • 2004 game and rules - objectives, elements, rules, and penalties of the 2004 game
  • Update Manager - small application to check for updates to various URC componants
  • Installers
• 2D
  • textures - materials for robots, objects, etc.
  • menu backgrounds
  • graphics in menus and UI
• 3D
  • robot modeling - modeling for teams without animators, tweaking models
  • field and arena modeling - field and game locations
• Sound
  • sound effects - robot sounds and game tones/jingles
  • original music - your own songs you are willing to let us use
  • band contact - get bands to let us use their music
• Web
  • main site - standard HTML, Java, etc.
  • wiki - special wiki syntax
  • servers - letting us use some space for pages/files/mirrors

another way to help that ANYBODY can do is testing. it will probably be a few months before we have any file releases, but when we do anybody can download what we have and report bugs.

if you are unsure how you can help, want to suggest something, have questions, or just want to talk about the game, you can try out AIM chatroom "Ultimate Robot Challenge" we are often in there. or you could just catch me on AIM, "Mike Ciance"