I’m getting back to a project I started in 2024 but got to pause it (couldn’t find anyone to help me). It’s called SuperTux Smasher (formerly SuperTuxBattleMelee), a platform fighter featuring Tux and other mascots in the open source community

So far, we are three people working on it (the other two just joined very recently) and they even get to do a logo for the game. There’s also a sample design of the main screen, and we’re working on the menu and a stage

We’re also looking for other potential people interested. Just note that it’s likely going to be a pixel art game, so if you know how to use Aseprite or Libresprite, that would be awesome. Otherwise, you can go as composer or programmer. You’ll just need to know how to use C++ and Squirrel (it’s like Lua, but with a true object-oriented paradigm), the latter will be used for modding support

If you’re interested, the source code is here on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/SuperTuxSmasher/sts-game

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    24 minutes ago

    I would be interested in helping, but I am a web developer. Do you need help in that regard? Maybe for some sort of online account management platform, or just a website? I can design an API that the game could read from for publishing/finding servers and integrating with the player’s online profile. I can code in Svelte and React, and Node.js on the backend, particularly SvelteKit.

    I just noticed you hadn’t bought the domain names, so I bought them to make sure nobody swiped them from you. I can transfer them to you after ten days (Cloudflare’s waiting period after registering them). I got supertuxsmasher.com and .org.

    I also run an email service and would love to provide free email for the domain to you if you’d like. You can check out my service at https://port87.com/. I can help you set it up if you’ve never done that sort of thing before.

    I have some family members who are composers. If you come up with a melody for the game theme, I could ask if they could develop it into a score. My sister’s orchestra might even be willing to record it if I ask super nicely. 😁

    • FlutterTal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      23 minutes ago

      For now, the main focus is on the game code. Though yeah, web development is planned in the future, as it can be useful once mod support is fully implemented and the game is in a more playable state. I can make a public repo for you so you can contribute to it if you want

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 minutes ago

        Yeah, I’d love to. Would you want just a static site for now that you could use for promotion?

        Oh, also I do voice acting, so if you need that, especially for things like announcer voice, I can do that.

    • FlutterTal@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      25 minutes ago

      Sure, you can contribute as an artist ^^

      Of course I talked about doing pixel art because it’s what I planned for now, but it has yet to be decided really

      And if you wanna contribute, the main repo is still in my post. Though you might want to check the first (and only at time of writing this) pull request, as it is being in a more advanced state. But yeah at some point once it’s playable, I’m planning to merge it

  • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Not much but I added it to AlternativeTo (needs to be approved by an admin)

    • gkak.laₛ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      15 minutes ago

      I’ve been thinking, it’d be great if we had an AlternativeTo alternative, but open source and community-maintained 🤔 Right now any contributions we make are owned by that single company, with no way to e.g. make a fork if something goes wrong :(

      Does anyone know if something like that exists?

      (I know about awesome- lists but their use case is a little different, plus they’re scattered across many different repositories)

  • bigmamoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    50 minutes ago

    Idk anything about programing and all but would love to help, big melee player too. Dont know if it can help since all plat fighter theses days are either casual or melee clone