ToDoList

The To Do List is a small group of hobby gamers that spend there spare time making freeware games for release into the public domain for fun!! We will NEVER charge for our games, though pay pal donations are always welcome!! Most of our members are involved in some way with the entertainment industry and bring our talent and enthusiasm to the homebrew gaming scene as an outlet for creative drives not satisfied at our day jobs.

We are just getting started and working on our first project right now. – Reality Slips. An insane scifi tale of magic, gods and monsters.

But The To Do List is hoping to be much more. We are trying to build a development hobby group that can encompass more than just games. It is our fond hope that as our projects get attention we can attract more and more people into this community and build a pool of talent to produce any number of art related projects. Wether games, short films, animations or what ever. You decide!!! Why work on your projects alone and 98% of the time never finish them when there are thousands of like minded people across the Internet also looking for help and to help others.

So if you feel like contributing and joining a free open source community that will share ideas, and help you evolve as an entertainment artist or, if like me, you have been in the industry already for 10 years or so and just want to work on your own projects for a change, come to our forums and say hi.. Sign up and pick a project!!

There will be no or little pressure. This is ment to be FUN, not another job.

All art and programming code will stay as your own. Full credits will be given no matter how small a contribution you make. While the final art will be used in the game project itself, you, as the artist can retain all claims that you created it. Put it in your CV, post it on your own website.. whatever. Remember this is a HOBBY project so no money is involved.. we will in no way profit form this.

Hobby project Goals

• Have fun
• Improve your skills
• To provide a outlet for our imaginations. No longer will you stare at a blank sheet of paper saying “Well i need to practise.. what should I do?” – The projects themselves will provide for you a structured list of uncompleted tasks that you can select at will to work on. “Oh i feel like practising digital painting today… oh hey they are still looking for a digital backdrop for scene 32!! I’ll do that.”
• See your work come alive in a interactive 3D environment. – Get an added bonus to all your completed works by seeing it included in a game title or some other final work. I think that many 2D guys would get a kick out of such a thing. Design a character, tell us how you think he should move and act.. and the 3D guys will make it happen!!
• Get inspirational advise and technique tips. We hope to attract talented people to these projects. In doing so you will enter a small microcosm of a true studio environment. Improve your working skills from advise and encouragement from other active members.
• Expand your CV.

Long Term Project Goals

The founders are considering the possibility that this project could evolve into a much larger online community. While this is all way down the line and we will need to get out our first title to attract people, we are hoping to make a true online hobby group. With features on the site very similar to other art sites, except focusing on collaborative projects.

People will be able to start there own Projects, for any end. Say short film, FPS, animations etc etc. Receiving free hosting and dev forums.

Find users form the community to join your projects. Or be a random contributor and pick and choose small areas of any project to help out on.

Like i said all this part is way off and may not even happen.. but we have high hopes that this kind of thing could evolve from the simple idea of a Collaborative Dev Environment for fun and learning.