Current status of OpenEQ is that we're working on getting full support for the new Omens Of War files, complete with octree generation, culling, and collision detection. I have been working pretty much non-stop on getting all of this to work very smoothly, and I'm having a decent degree of success.
If you'd like to help, there are quite a few ways. The first and probably most important is by developing on it... however, in its current state, there's very little to do without stepping on other people's toes due to the very small code base. That will change once we get into networking support. At that point there will be plenty of code to work on, and plenty of testing to be done, so testing will be a priority at or above coding. The third major way of helping out is by donating.
Because of the nature of the project, we don't really have many expenses, so any donations would most likely be used to pay back 'investments' (the purchase of our new domain openeq.org would take priority for example) and then split among active developers. I'm the primary developer (GXTi, farce, and Doodman have all helped out majorly especially with figuring different things out) right now, and even though I don't have bills to pay and mouths to feed (being a highschooler has its advantages) it'd be nice to have some spending money from time to time haha.
That said, even just coming in the channel (#freaku on irc.freenode.net) from time to time and saying thanks to the devs would be appreciated by myself and the others.
Hopefully we'll get enough from donations and advertising that we'll at least break even on expenses (domains and caffiene being the primary ones haha) and the devs won't have to put much forward other than code.
Happy Hacking,
Lord Daeken M. BlackBlade
(Cody Brocious)
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