[[TOC]] = About Orxonox = * Development Status: Alpha * Environment: X11, OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, QT * Intended Audience: Gamers * Licence: GNU General Public Licence (GPL) * Natural Language: English * Operating System: Linux (primary), Windows (sec), MacOS X * Programming Language: C++ OOP == The Story == The year is 2102. The universe is still expanding, stars and galaxies adorn the skies of the planets all over the universe. Supernovas send their exploding flashes through the infinite wideness. Black holes suck in beams of light and the sun of the solar system is still shining down on Earth and Mars. But it's not like nothing has changed. [wiki:ConceptPaper read more] == The Engine == Even though this is not usual anymore today, we started this project by programming our own game engine. We did this because we wanted to understand how games work. After a first working version of Orxonox we changed route and switched to DEVELOPMENTSYSTEM to enable Orxonox to thrive from the knowledge of a big open source development community. You can read more about the engine features [wiki:EngineFeatures here]. == History == Orxonox is an open source project that started in February 2004. At the moment we are about 15 active developers mainly from the [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zurich] and other Swiss universities. Our goal is to create a funny and exciting 3D action game. In fact Orxonox shall become the most furious 3D action game the open source game community has ever seen! == Education == Orxonox is also a part of the optional bachelor course program at the [http://www.ee.ethz.ch/ ETHZ ITET departement] in form of a [http://www.ee.ethz.ch/studium/studenten/bachelorstudium/pps_EN PPS]: Every semester new students learn how to work on Orxonox using open source tools. Here you can see the [https://dev.orxonox.net/wiki/PPS_main cource program] of the last semesters. == Contact == You can contact us in many different ways, here is a short list || Orxonox General Email || [mailto:orxonox(at)orxonox(dot)net email] || || Orxonox Forum || [https://forum.orxonox.net/ link] || || IRC: irc.datacore.ch channel #orxonox || [irc://irc.datacore.ch#orxonox join] || || Announce Maillinglist: orxonox-announce@mail.datacore.ch || [https://mail.datacore.ch/mailman/listinfo/orxonox-announce subscribe] || || Development Mailinglist: orxonox-dev@mail.datacore.ch || [https://mail.datacore.ch/mailman/listinfo/orxonox-dev subscribe] || || Commit Mailinglist: orxonox-commit@mail.datacore.ch || [https://mail.datacore.ch/mailman/listinfo/orxonox-commit subscribe] || == Credits == ==== Coder: Patrick Boenzli ==== Core framework, OpenGL, C++ hardend, collision detection, event handling, OpenGL, network designer, bsp-mapper, bad modler, webpage, organizer, inventor, beer drinker, griller, !SegaMegadrive gamer. Email: [mailto:patrick_at_orxonox.net] ==== Coder: Benjamin Grauer ==== GTK, Graphical User Interface, sound engine guru, webpage, OpenGL developer, Vodka, grill master, overchiller, studies abuser, modler, lucas arts adventure gamer Homepage: http://bensch.no-ip.com Email: [mailto:bensch_at_orxonox.net] ==== Coder/Modler: Benjamin Knecht ==== Playability developer, controls designer, story, universe writer and modler Email: [mailto:beni_at_orxonox.net] ==== Coder: Andy Maechler ==== Weather engine wizard and linux fan. ==== Coder: Christoph Renner ==== Network Master and command line arguments implementer ==== Coder: Claudio Botta ==== BSP and height map implementer. ==== Coder: David Hasenfratz ==== Animated texture implementer, weather god and party man ==== Coder: Stefan Lienhard ==== Animated texture implementer, water shader genious, party man and 42M runner ==== Coder: Silvan Nellen ==== Playability developer and LUA script genious. Our guitar man. ---- === Occasional Developers === ==== Coder: Christian Meyer "Konfuzzyus" ==== Win32 compiler, bandwidth abuser, C/C++ monster, peon and code criticiser. Email: [mailto:fuzzy_at_orxonox.ethz.ch] ==== Coder: David Gruetter ==== OpenGL freak, skysphere maker Email: [mailto:gruetter_at_orxonox.ethz.ch] ==== Coder: Simon Hofmann ==== English corrector, story writer, comments on everything, gamer. Email: [mailto:hofzge_at_orxonox.ethz.ch] ==== Coder: Johannes Bader ==== OpenGL, algorithms, Showroom framework, coolermaster, Orxonox::Psychologist. It's long time ago since... ==== Coder: Adrian Buerli ==== C++ disenchanted assembler-coder, OOP design, int preference() { return !MartiniBianco }; ==== Coder: Nico Bernold ==== Bends the bits on OSX, graphics and responsible for the new style of the webpage. lounge lizard. ---- === More noble Spirits === ==== Infrastructure ==== ===== Amir Guindehi ===== Thank you for being like a father to us and for giving us svn and mailinglist access. And thanks for all the administrative work you did. A true hero of the open source community... Homepage: [http://www.datacore.ch] ===== VSETH ===== The VSETH is supporting our educational work by giving us some space on their web-server. Homepage: [http://www.vseth.ethz.ch] ==== Sound and Arts ==== ===== Pascal Graf ===== He designed the poster of our sixth convention in summer 2007 and helped us redesign our page. Thanks a lot for your great work. Just look at the website and you know what we mean. ===== Lukas Grauer ===== The first three songs are from Luke Grey, and they really revive all the feelings you had while playing a real arcade game. Listen to them, and you will know what I mean. ===== Alex Schenker ===== He is a technoid musician from America, and as such he may also be an (charenglish*) Orxonox::Translator(German);. For sure he will be one of the main testers of the whole Project. ===== Thierry Zaugg ===== He has enriched Orxonox by contributing many songs, many pictures and many models! We really appreciate this work and are thankful, that he is interessted in the progress of Orxonox! Homepage: [http://www.bediff.com] ===== Aaron von Schroeder ===== The drum and bass artists from Pfäffikon named Task Horizon will hopefully contribute their track soon. Anyways, they are more than worth to be mentioned here, for their really heavy sound. Homepage: [http://taskhorizon.no-ip.com] ===== Daniel Grauer ===== From the project [http://frontlinesoldiers.de/ Frontline Soldiers] a mod for [http://www.farcrygame.com/ FarCry] we got many very good low-poly meshes of trees, vegetation and a lot more... Thanks a lot.