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+ <H1>[Nel] Greetings! And some questions / comments</H1>

+ Olivier Lejade

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+<PRE>Hi Sal,

+My name is Olivier Lejade, I am Nevrax's CEO. I won't be intervening too

+much on this list since we really would like to keep things technically

+oriented, but since there seems to be so a lot of questions, I figured it

+would be a good idea to answer some of them here so that they can go in the

+FAQ.

+I'll leave the technically oriented ones to the Code Team though.

+At 04:18 PM 11/11/00 -0500, you wrote:

+>I am also a Worldforge developer, like Bryce. Though not nearly as

+>famous ;-)

+

+Or so you think... ;)

+>And a commercial effort such as Nevrax could be a powerful force in helping

+>to achieve such a goal.

+

+Thanks for the attention.

+We hope and believe so too.

+>So I then

+>came across Worldforge, and that is where I am. Finally a totally free

+>opensource project that met, if not exceeded my own standards for an online

+>gaming system.

+

+Yes, WorldForge is a very impressive project with a very, very large scope.

+We are all admirative of your capacity to handle such a large and diverse

+community. Managing a team of artists over the internet is especially

+daunting and WF has accomplished an incredible feat in this area.

+As Bryce kindly reminded me, code is cheap compared to Art...

+Here at Nevrax, we do not intend to have such a large range of activity. We

+are concentrating on a 3D client (no 2D, text, etc) and we are doing all

+the artwork/game design internally.

+Nevrax.org will focus on fostering a "technical" community.

+>1) how compatible our projects are

+

+I'll let the coders answer on the technical aspect. However, on a more

+philosophical point of vue, I'd say our project are very compatible,

+siblings really, since they are both GPL.

+>1) I understand that Nel will be a library to create games, but is this

+>project also developing a specific game that uses the library?

+

+Yes. we are currently developing a yet unannounced commercial MMORPG.

+>If so what

+>details of it are known? As far as ruleset... gameplay...

+

+At this time, I'm sorry to say we cannot disclose any information

+concerning game design / artwork. However things are bound to change as we

+go along, and some information will start trickling out in the coming months.

+>2) What is the development strategy? For example Worldforge will be

+>developing several smaller diverse games in succession (Acorn, Mason... etc.

+>etc.) until we reach the final goal, entitled 'BelchFire'. Will you guys be

+>doing a similar thing?

+

+Not in the sense of WF (i.e lots of intermediary games). We are working on

+a single game. However, we do have a number of milestones. Also by the end

+of the year, we will be disclosing a "sample world" under an open content

+license for the community to kick around and have fun with. But this will

+have nothing to do with our final game.

+>4) I get this question a lot :-) Why develop a 3d engine from scratch? Why

+>not use/build from an existing engine, such as Crystal Space?

+

+We checked out CS of course as well as many others, and while it is a very

+nice engine, it did not seem to fit our particular needs.

+>6) Is development open to outside influence? Or are you following an

+>internal-only plan, and just opensourcing the results?

+

+Well, we are following an internal plan and Freeing the resulting software,

+however we are very open to outside influence on technical aspects. And

+while we concentrate on our priorities, we will integrate any worthwhile

+functionnality.

+On the game content side though, we are keeping things to ourselves for now.

+Expect to be really, really suprised though... :)

+>7) Was there knowledge of Worldforge when this project was started? And if

+>so, why was it deemed necessary to start another, independant effort with

+>the same goals?

+

+Yes, we knew of WF (actually, since the time it was called Altima !).

+We took some time to consider joining the effort, however we felt there was

+a number of reasons for not doing so. I'll give you some of them :

+- We wanted to keep a tight focus on the game we are doing and did not want

+to be hindered in political struggles to get the code where we needed. We

+felt the WF community might ressent us steering in directions that they

+would not care for. We have a tight schedule : we want the game out in 2002.

+Which means we could'nt spare to much time arguing about it.

+- We have different goals : we are a commercial entity. We don't have the

+educational/hobbyist approach of WF. Nevrax has a complete team of seasoned

+professionals not only at the programming level, but also on the design /

+3D artwork / concept side working every day towards one goal : getting the

+game out.

+- We have a highly original world which poses a great number of

+constraints. We felt we would be in a better position to adress them by

+leading our own effort.

+That said, I must emphasize that we do not see ourselves as "competing"

+with WF. We are simply two different projects, taking two different

+approach at building a Free Software system for MMORPGs. Diversity is A

+Good Thing.

+I wish WF will succeed and I hope there will be as much cooperation between

+the two projects as possible.

+>9) How the heck do you guys manage to pay a full development team off of

+>free software? :-)

+

+Ah ha ! :)

+Free Software doesn't mean free content or free service.

+While our software is Free, we retain property of our game data. And to

+access our servers in order to play our game, users will be asked to pay a

+monthly fee just like with the other commercial games.

+Bottom line is : Free Software and commercial MMORPGs are a perfect match.

+And we believe we have everything to gain and nothing to loose by opening

+our source code.

+I hope this clarifies things a little even though I'm sure it will raise

+even more questions !

+Thanks for your encouragments,

+Olivier

+</pre>

+