From b13fd385c08a66555c959a5caa9c31c36aeb80a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stian Grenborgen Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:22:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Website: Updating the information about how to contribute. --- www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html b/www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html index 35d33c87c..cb0690c21 100644 --- a/www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html +++ b/www.freecol.org/how-to-contribute.html @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@   -
You can help develop the visual appearance of the game by making terrain graphics, background images and illustrations. Use your creativity and help define the graphical appearance of the game.  There are open bugs for missing animations (bug report #1011) and images (smaller fort/fortress, BR#2049).
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You can help develop the visual appearance of the game by making terrain graphics, background images and illustrations. Use your creativity and help define the graphical appearance of the game.  For example, we are still missing attack animations for some units.
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Please just ask the developers if you need changes to the code in order to support new types of graphics. We could easily add support for new types of animations, code for dynamically generating images based on different parts (like alpha masks) and most other stuff you would need.

Please contact: + or Our Forum

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+ We are still missing lots of sound effects on various actions in FreeCol. In addition, adding new + types of sound effects is quite easy in the code -- so please just ask the developers if you want + to be able to play a sound effect (or music) on a new type of event. +
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+ You can help getting more sound effects for FreeCol by making them yourself, or by finding appropriate + sound effects in places like OpenGameArt. +

+ Please contact: + or Our Forum @@ -205,7 +218,9 @@   - We need people for constant testing of the development version of the game. Please use git to keep your copy of the game up-to-date and submit bug reports whenever you experience any problems. It would be great if you could target your testing towards new features, but we also need people for overall game testing.

Start testing immediately! Questions can be directed to the + We need people for constant testing of the development version of the game. You can get the automatically built development version. Submit bug reports whenever you experience any problems. It would be great if you could target your testing towards new features, but we also need people for overall game testing.

+ If you want to be testing the game over extended periods of time, we recommend you get FreeCol using Git and build the game yourself. +

Start testing immediately! Questions can be directed to the