[canceled] Speculative Application: Interaction/Interface Developer (and marketing hand)

Added by qubodup over 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm looking for a project to contribute to for the next 4 months (possibly more) and thought perhaps Ryzom could use my help.

Position: Interface/Interaction designer (and Marketing)

Name:         Iwan Gabovitch
Email/GTalk:  [email protected]
Location:     Berlin, Germany (GMT+1)
Availability: 14 hours/week for the next 4 months for a start.
Age:          23
Occupation:   Half-time student with half-time job

Interaction design Skills and Experience:
I'm attending Interaction design and Marketing classes in course of Game/Interaction Design at HTW Berlin. I know how to use game/level editors (specifically RPGMaker2K, StarCraft1, WarCraft3, Sauerbraten) and I made small games in Lua/LÖVE (see my visual portfolio http://qubodup.net/portfolio/ ). I customized wiki/forum/blog systems for http://forum.freegamedev.net/ , http://blog.parpg.net/ , http://radakan.net/ (site currently broken) and http://dungeonhack.sourceforge.net .

Community/marketing Skills and Experience:
FreeGamer blogger http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ , moderator on http://opengameart.org/ and http://forum.freegamedev.net/ .

Motivation:
I want to be part of a game dev team, as an addition to the university courses I am taking.
I love making games more accessible and complete by tweaking a specific feature of it.

Short:
I would like to be part of the team and help to improve a few interaction aspects of the game (for example tutorials, controls, gui layout). I'm not afraid of (Python) scripting. I would also like to help with marketing (writing blog posts for example).
I have written a longer, more general 'application' https://docs0.google.com/document/d/118z32B4aKBFJFzxYyCiB1NHV9_vs5MLnpn2wAyNQER4/edit?hl=en&authkey=CJbrrukC# .

Seeing that Ryzom is a mature project, I assume that there are people who work on interfaces and tutorials. Perhaps I could enter as an assistant to this part of the team?


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RE: [canceled] Speculative Application: Interaction/Interface Developer (and marketing hand) - Added by qubodup over 4 years ago

I talked to sfb on IRC and he gave some pointers what I could work on; many thanks for that! I decided to work on http://parpg.net/ for the time period.

I wrote a little about my process of finding a task: http://qubodup.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/picking-projects-to-join-and-contribute-to-as-interaction-designer-marketing-person/

I will blog on http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ about the projects I contacted, hopefully leading developers, coders, artists and designers to your doorstep. :)

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