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Collaborative Project: Ryzom Forge

"The wealth of Ryzom resides in what the players and those who love it can bring to it. For this to happen, we must give them the means and opportunity.."

This sentence sums up by itself the essence of the project : to expand the Power to Players beyond the single Role-play and finally give the Ryzom community means to act on the game itself.

General presentation of the project

What is Ryzom Forge ?

Ryzom Forge is an ambitious collaborative project open to the gaming community and the open source community, in partnership with Winch Gate and volunteers from the Ryzom team.The partnership already established with the Kaganat project (http://khaganat.net) since the design stage of the Ryzom Forge project, has proven to us the relevance of the ambition of an opening to the open source community.

The design of this project is planned in progressive stages, each bringing its own addition to the game:

• The first step, the simplest, is to enrich availableapartment items.
• The second step is to take advantage of the mastery of adding objects to propose new equipable items.
• The third stage, more elaborate, and also requiring a good deal of work on the tribes "level design" side, will be to propose weapon patterns through rites of tribes.
• The final stage, called New Zone project will be the creation of a new game area.

WARNING ! We cannot certify that the final stage can be reached, or even that the first will be achieved. But we want to give you the means to meet the challenge and to be at your side to move it forward as far as possible.

Tutorials

Main page of the Tutorials.

• Graphism : data from art direction, full implementation (from modeling to animation) of integrated and supported by Nel / Client assets.
• Level Design : Reflexion on what makes it for a new continent alive, rich of possibilities and challenging for the players. A matter of background/history of the place which is to be discovered step by step by the players (rites, amber cubes), of ecosystem (mobs, aggro areas, patrols, map, materials) and of interactions with the characters of the zone (NPC, tribes, quests, missions).
• Devs/intégration : integrate the creations in a set exportable to the Ryzom server.
• Support : Informations about support for the many OS : Linux, Mac, Windows.

Available tools

Communication

• General Chat of the project : #ryzomforge on FreeNode, for a fast and alive exchanges. More on IRC
• Forum (for extended exchanges) coming soon Expected on the Ryzom official forum

Both are complementary. Please note that the IRC logs can be made available.

Supports de travail

• Wiki pour la documentation ; pour apprendre à utiliser le wiki, voir la page Aide à l'utilisation du wiki
• Pad pour les prises de notes et rédactions de groupes.
• Le serveur de test Yubo (accès en demandant sur IRC).
• Les outils de RyzomCore pour l'édition du monde (World Editor, Georges Editor, etc.)

Comment aider ?

Aider à traduire des tutos dans toutes les langues, explorer et documenter les outils, créer des graphismes, proposer des missions, donner votre avis sur IRC et sur les forums, structurer ce wiki et corriger les fautes d'ortographes que vous pouvez croiser... Il n'y a pas de petite contribution, pas d'obligation d'avoir des compétences précises, tout le monde peut participer, apprendre et améliorer le projet.

Si vous avez envie d'aider et que vous vous sentez perdu, venez nous dire bonjour sur #ryzomforge ou visitez la page Premiers pas.