Toysoldiers:About

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Toy Soldiers is the brainchild of two South African Linux geeks. It aims to be a war-strategy empire-building game based on real-world dynamics. This means that winning is not just about having a bigger army, more land, more money and a faster mouse-button finger, but rather decision-making skills and a little bit of that randomness that makes life that much more interesting. Gamers need to make political decisions, form alliances, keep their troops supplied, motivated, healthy and well-trained. While this is being developed as an entertaining and complex game, we aim to make it so realistic that it could be used as a simulator for real-world scenarios.

The production of the game is where it really becomes interesting.

In an attempt to bring the OpenSource community even closer together, Toy Soldiers will be completely Open Source, developed by YOU, maintained by YOU and enjoyed by EVERYONE. To do this, websites and forums will be created to spread the message, people will be recruited (but feel free to sign up, whatever your ability and experience - we can find a spot for you somewhere) and sponsors will be invited for dinner. This wiki will serve as documentation and a user manual.

We need:

• cross-platform coders
• graphic designers
• specialists (historians, veterans, weapons experts, physicists, and more)
• PR whizzkids
• servers
• sponsors
• gamers
• web-administrators
• forum mods and admin
• IRC channels and servers
• people with ideas
• you
• and of course, lots and lots of coffee.

We already have quite a bit of opensource love and goodwill going around, but more is welcome!

If you want to be a part of this, please sign up to this wiki, edit the page about you to detail your level of experience in your field and how you hope to contribute and get cracking!