New subsim, OpenSSN, in its early stages

[FERdeBOER]

Great news!!
I'd love to see a modern subsim linux-native...

Please, please, don't give up

My programming skills are close to zero, but I can offer myself for a Spanish translation. I know Italian also, but I'm Spanish; if no Italian offers I'll do.

Let me know if you need help and, if so, what could I do.

[redtyphoon]

Originally Posted by FERdeBOER

Great news!!
I'd love to see a modern subsim linux-native...

Please, please, don't give up

My programming skills are close to zero, but I can offer myself for a Spanish translation. I know Italian also, but I'm Spanish; if no Italian offers I'll do.

Let me know if you need help and, if so, what could I do.

Thank you, I'll try to stick with it. It's something I do "after hours", but I'm hoping to get missions included soon.

Your language skills could indeed be handy. I've written a first-draft of a manual in English. If you could translate it to Spanish, that would help me reach a wider audience. I'd also love to have the website translated into Spanish too, if you have time. Any translated documents can be e-mailed to me at jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca

Thanks!

[Chad]

Best of luck redtyphoon.

If those screens from your webpage are in-game shots and fully functional, it's coming along really nicely

[redtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Chad

Best of luck redtyphoon.

If those screens from your webpage are in-game shots and fully functional, it's coming along really nicely

Thank you! Those screen shots are from in-game. I'd say they are "functional" though perhaps not yet "fully functional". There is still a lot of work to do to get combat and AI in place.

[Julhelm]

Would you like a hand with the graphical side of things? Making some nice GUI screens and stuff.

[redtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Julhelm

Would you like a hand with the graphical side of things? Making some nice GUI screens and stuff.

Right now, with the game in early development, I'm trying to keep the graphics simple. Once things are more stable I'll be open to improving them...

What I would appreciate a hand with is making the website look nicer. What I've got there is pretty much just some simple text. If someone wants to take a stab at making a nicer website, that would be great.

Also, for the Linux & BSD users out there, please file a request with your distribution and ask them to package OpenSSN. That would help me get more exposure and fix distro-specific bugs.

[FERdeBOER]

Originally Posted by redtyphoon

Your language skills could indeed be handy. I've written a first-draft of a manual in English. If you could translate it to Spanish, that would help me reach a wider audience. I'd also love to have the website translated into Spanish too, if you have time. Any translated documents can be e-mailed to me at jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca

Thanks!

Work in progress. I'm also doing it "after hours", but I think I'll have the manual ready soon.

[Deamon]

Will this remain a pure Linux thingy ?

[redtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Will this remain a pure Linux thingy ?

Well, I'm doing all of my development on Linux, so I suppose it is primarily a "Linux thingy". However, I am trying to keep the code cross-platform-friendly and I plan to get it ported to FreeBSD once some more features are in place.

OpenSSN is built using C++ and the SDL graphics library which runs on Windows and OS X, so I suspect it should be easy to get running on other systems.

Bottom line: I personally won't be making builds for other operating systems, but if someone else is willing to step forward and make packages for Windows, OS X, etc then I will host those packages on the OpenSSN website and work with the packagers to make the process as easy as possible.

[Deamon]

Tell me, have you ever played Red Storm Rising ?

[redtyphoon]

Originally Posted by Deamon

Tell me, have you ever played Red Storm Rising ?

I haven't played Red Storm Rising, but I've read the Tom Clancy book by that name three times.