Non-technical Contributors wanted for Star Wars Total Conversion
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I'd really like to add more story/dialogue content to the Star Wars mod. So, if you're non-technical and happen to enjoy the genre, you'd be perfect. And if you got technical skills to boot, yay for you and yay for the mod 
So, if you're wondering what kind of things you could write, here are a few categories:
- The various text that the alien leaders send to the player. For example, the well-known "Your skin looks delicious. I'm sure we'll be meeting for dinner soon." Even though that quote is priceless and I'd hate to replace it, there's probably a quote you can come up with that is nearly as funny but more Darth Vader appropriate. There's all sorts of dialogue of this nature that could be changed for the various current Star Wars leaders (Vader, Luke, Yoda, Chewie, and Jabba.)
I don't yet have an exhaustive list of the different events that generate this dialogue, but I hope to soon. If you're curious now, you can look in the English.str file in Galactic Civilization's text directory. You'll see all sorts of categories. From what I understand, Hawaii-50 will soon be expanding his GalCiv Editor to handle the strings file without having to muck around with the raw text.
- Descriptions of Star Wars social upgrades: Choose a social upgrade, galactic wonder or trade good and come up with a Star Wars equivalent. Perhaps Aphrodisiacs should become "Midichlorian Red Dog."
- Renaming and descriptions of Star Wars technology equivalents, for example the obvious TerrorStar -> Death Star. Or how about Planetary Defense -> Ion Defense Cannon, Phaser -> Blasters, etc.
- Events, events and more events: The possibilities are endless here.
Even if you don't feel comfortable testing the events, just coming up with the ideas and writing the dialogue would be a great contribution.
- Descriptions of current ships, as well as developing new ones we could add.
Now, I'm partial to funny Star Wars stuff, but I'm open to whatever you think would be fun. Hell, if it's just fun for you to write it, that's good enough.
The CDG has been gracious enough to host a forum for the mode at http://www.cdgroup.org/forums/tbs/gc/index.php?h=1&pf=89 If you're interested in participating, stop by and send me a note. Or just write some stuff, and post it in the various sections of the forum. I think you can also add attachments to posts if you actually create event files.
- MadMaz
p.s. all the files can now be found there as well as pictures of the ships and, once I finally get back to playing the game, some screenshots.
So, if you're wondering what kind of things you could write, here are a few categories:
- The various text that the alien leaders send to the player. For example, the well-known "Your skin looks delicious. I'm sure we'll be meeting for dinner soon." Even though that quote is priceless and I'd hate to replace it, there's probably a quote you can come up with that is nearly as funny but more Darth Vader appropriate. There's all sorts of dialogue of this nature that could be changed for the various current Star Wars leaders (Vader, Luke, Yoda, Chewie, and Jabba.)
I don't yet have an exhaustive list of the different events that generate this dialogue, but I hope to soon. If you're curious now, you can look in the English.str file in Galactic Civilization's text directory. You'll see all sorts of categories. From what I understand, Hawaii-50 will soon be expanding his GalCiv Editor to handle the strings file without having to muck around with the raw text.
- Descriptions of Star Wars social upgrades: Choose a social upgrade, galactic wonder or trade good and come up with a Star Wars equivalent. Perhaps Aphrodisiacs should become "Midichlorian Red Dog."
- Renaming and descriptions of Star Wars technology equivalents, for example the obvious TerrorStar -> Death Star. Or how about Planetary Defense -> Ion Defense Cannon, Phaser -> Blasters, etc.
- Events, events and more events: The possibilities are endless here.
Jar Jar has somehow been elected as Minister of the Galactic Economics. It's obvious that this could be disastrous for your empire. Do you
[*] Hold a public execution followed by a month of galactic celebration (+5% economy, +50% morale)
[*] Send bounty hunters to discreetly assasinate him (-5 Alignment)
[*] Do nothing (-20% economy)
[*] Hold a public execution followed by a month of galactic celebration (+5% economy, +50% morale)
[*] Send bounty hunters to discreetly assasinate him (-5 Alignment)
[*] Do nothing (-20% economy)
End of quote
Even if you don't feel comfortable testing the events, just coming up with the ideas and writing the dialogue would be a great contribution.
- Descriptions of current ships, as well as developing new ones we could add.
Now, I'm partial to funny Star Wars stuff, but I'm open to whatever you think would be fun. Hell, if it's just fun for you to write it, that's good enough.
The CDG has been gracious enough to host a forum for the mode at http://www.cdgroup.org/forums/tbs/gc/index.php?h=1&pf=89 If you're interested in participating, stop by and send me a note. Or just write some stuff, and post it in the various sections of the forum. I think you can also add attachments to posts if you actually create event files.
- MadMaz
p.s. all the files can now be found there as well as pictures of the ships and, once I finally get back to playing the game, some screenshots.
