Contribute

<h2>Want to contribute?</h2>

<p>
Do you have a new idea you want to implement?
Want to make a new monster? Or a new map? Are you an artist and want to
make some nice artwork or graphics?
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</p>

<h3>Some things you have to bear in mind:</h3>

<ul>
   <li>
    All things you contribute have to be licensed under
    <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a>.
   </li>
   <li>
    All developers and contributors are investing their free time to
    improve the game. As all this is non-commercial and therefore, there
    is no reward we can give, except that you are mentioned in the credits
    and get the social status of a contributor who improved and helped to
    build this game.
   </li>
   <li>
    The immediate reward you get is the feeling that you helped the
    users of this server and the whole game and of course the status as
    contributor and the mention in the credits.
   </li>
   <li>
    We can't tell what you should do or assign any tasks to you like a
    company would do. There is, of course, a TODO-list (ask via email or on
    the irc channel), but we can't and won't force you to work on that.
    Every developer is free and should do what he likes to do, as it is
    his free time he investes.
   </li>
   <li>
    Contribution to the game and the server isn't connected in any way
    to gain DM status. It's essentially up to the server admins of
    deliantra who becomes DM. The reason for this is that the game
    development is not directly related to the server. Anyone could run
    a server and that doesn't imply that all the game developers are
    automatically Dungeon Master on all public servers.
   </li>
</ul>

<h3>What to contribute?</h3>

<p>
It helps if you talk to other developers, for example on the IRC channel,
to get an idea of what is needed most at the moment or what isn't currently needed
that much. But generally we can't tell you what to do, but we could help you
to find ideas of what to do.
</p>

<p>
   If you are not familiar with the code or don't want to contribute
   code to Deliantra, here is a list what things you could do:
</p>

<ul>
   <li>
   <b>Maps:</b>We strongly encourage users to make maps, we wrote an entirely
   new map editor (see <a href="editor.html">Gtk+ Deliantra Map Editor</a>)
   to make mapediting more bearable and less tedious. If you want to make
   maps we recommend to read the map guidelines of the original crossfire:
   <a href="http://crossfire.real-time.com/guides/map/index.html">
   http://crossfire.real-time.com/guides/map/index.html</a>.
   </li>
   <li>
   <b>Graphics:</b>We are in a process of replacing the old tileset by new
   and nicer graphics (monsters, houses, items, whatever). If you want to
   make new graphics, please submit an archetype file along with the graphics!
   If you have improved or redrawn an existing archetype, you can submit the
   new graphics.
   </li>
   <li>
   <b>Sounds:</b>The sound support of crossfire is a little bit broken at
   the moment and there aren't many nice sounds yet. However, for the new
   client, new sounds would be a great addition and would improve the overall
   atmosphere of the game.
   </li>
</ul>

<p>
   Aside from all that, you can checkout the entire source code from our
   CVS, get familiar with it and try to find and fix bugs and/or implement
   other kinds of improvements.
</p>

<h3>How to contribute?</h3>

<p>
   If you finished some nice maps/graphics/whatever, you should contact the
   developers. They will help you getting your work into the CVS and online
   on the game server. Either you send all you have made to
   <tt>support@deliantra.net</tt> or you ask for CVS access.
</p>

<p>
   You can also contact the developers, see the <a href="contact.html">Contact</a> page.
</p>

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