Gladiator Project

Team Name:
GhostGames

Project name:
Gladiators - In the Name of Entertainment

Brief description:
It's in a quite early stage: we have some concept art, some interface art and already one finished gladiator and some items. The game itself is a pure online game in historical correct gladiator theme, where you can fight other gladiators in various game modes like deathmatch, team deathmatch, venatio (animal fights) and of course duels. You have a single account where you can have one gladiator. First you can change his appearance, then you'll choose a basic class and how you've become an gladiator... slave, freeman or prisoner. After you chose you're class you will have to play the training in a ludi (gladiator school). The game also has leveling in it: after lvl 30 you're a free man. This means you can buy items with your hard-earned money and also can now create or join a clan. If you own a clan you can even build your own arenas with the included editor. The arenas cost a lot of money per block to build. Some basic features are:

* excitement meter
* unique melee system
* build your own gladiator school (clan)
* gain fame
* become the best gladiator of all using a wide assortment of weapons and armor
* fight against animals, alone or cooperative with other gladiators
* duel other players and set bets on players that are currently dueling
* fight in many historical places like the Colosseum

If you're interested, you can find more information here: http://www.ghostgames.net/concept.rtf // there you can find a more detailed description.

Release Target:
We would like to release the game as shareware, up to level 30 for free. After that, the user has to buy a serial key. However, it may be released as freeware.

Compensation:
These are unpaid positions. We are a completely free team without any budget. It is volunteer work. If the project makes money, everyone will get an equal share.

Technology:
Target System: Windows, Linux and Mac
Rendering Engine: Ogre3D
Physics Engine: ODE
Network Library: TNL

Artist Tools: 3D Studio Max

Talent needed:
Every kind of programmer is need...

Network Programmer, GamePlay programmer, OpenGL programmer, Shader programmer also it's a plus if you have knowledge of cross-platform programming using Ogre3D.


Team structure:

Andre Tag - musical compositing
Christian Weber(me) - 2d art and 2nd coordinator
Gregory M. Clark - project management and coordination
James Riley - webmaster and server administration

Website:
Nothing yet. It is currently in progress and will be updated when it gets online.

Contacts:
You can contact me via email: christian@ghostgames.net or using icq: 282-360-124

Additional Info:
This is the logo for the game
This will be the base model of every gladiator... of course we want to implent that everyone can change the appearance a bit.
This it the gladiator with some equipment

Feedback:
feel free to flame, encourage or whatever. every criticism is welcome. :)