UFO:Alien Invasion

General => Discussion => Topic started by: misiek on July 21, 2009, 05:32:59 pm

Title: Idea - official UFO: AI Spokesman / Head Hunter
Post by: misiek on July 21, 2009, 05:32:59 pm

Hello,

I would like to share with you with my idea for new job in ufo: ai team.

What such person should be responsible for:

• Promoting Ufo: AI in internet - on various forums (with answering to user questions) and sites. This includes monthly updates and information about official releases.
• Creating and publishing job offers for new programmers/artists/testers etc.

Requirements for this job:

• Good skills with english language (would be great if such person would know another languages).
• Good writing skills.
• Close to development team - such person should know vision and roadmap for ufo: ai project. Also should know what to include in monthly updates (development team should help in this)
• Ability to run wip releases - for taking screenshots/recording videos of new features
• Free time for doing it

Monthly updates and information about new releases:

• should include screenshots and videos (if it's possible) of new features. I think its more interesting to people than pure text.
• should be prepared once and pasted everywhere where topics was created

Examples of places to post monthly updates and information about new releases:

• moddb (there is already ufo: ai there, but information is outdated)
• retro remakes forum (i started topic there: http://retroremakes.com/forum/index.php/topic,614.0.html)
• strategy core forum http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums/
• xcomufo forum http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/
• tigsource forum http://forums.tigsource.com/
• freegamedev forum http://forum.freegamedev.net/

Would be also nice, if information about official releases could also be included on main pages (not only on forums) of those sites (like http://news.retroremakes.com/ , http://tigsource.com/ , http://www.strategycore.co.uk/). This would require asking those sites redactors.

Examples of places to look for new programmers/artists:

• http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/forum.asp?forum_id=8
• http://www.devmaster.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43
• http://blenderartists.org/forum/index.php
• http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=7
• http://sourceforge.net/people/

Example of updates and looking for help from parpg project (google for parpg and you will find many more sites where they are announcing/looking for help):
http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=2315

So... What do you think? Does it makes sense? Could ufo: ai benefit from this? I would like to hear especially voice from dev team.
And most important - would someone be interested in taking such job?

Title: Re: Idea - official UFO: AI Spokesman / Head Hunter
Post by: Duke on July 22, 2009, 12:32:23 am

misiek,
would *you* apply for such a job ?

Title: Re: Idea - official UFO: AI Spokesman / Head Hunter
Post by: misiek on July 22, 2009, 06:12:41 am

Hello,

No. Because i don't think i'm right person (i don't have much free time and not enough english skills).