Bijour le PLUG, (Forwarde depuis le Cambridge LUG) Les createurs de Creatures cherchent des testeurs...Si vous etes interesses, contactez le gars! Arnaud. -----Original Message----- From: Francis Irving [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 August 2001 12:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: clug Creatures Internet Edition testing Hello CLUG, Firstly, some background: I work for a games company in Cambridge called Creature Labs (was CyberLife) who make the Creatures series of computer games. These are artificial life games, where you look after cute Norns who have a simulated brain, biochemistry and genetics. They can breed, lay eggs, communicate with each other. They live in a virtual world with plants, animals, toys and machines. As some of you know, two of us here have ported the latest game Creatures Docking Station to Linux. This is a free, downloadable, online version of Creatures. You can connect the virtual worlds together with portals across the internet, so Norns can walk directly between the machines of different users. Go to http://ds.creatures.net to find out more, and download it for Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Now, the substance: We're just signing a publishing contract for Creatures Internet Edition (CIE) for Linux. CIE is a bundle of Creatures 3 (http://creatures3.com - the most recent Creatures game, which has a much larger world and lots more non-internet features than Docking Station), Docking Station and the Magma Norns. Creature Labs don't have the resources to QA Linux products in house. This is really only a small deal, as Linux games don't sell very well yet, and we've done the technical porting work out of company time. I'm looking for help to test and QA Creatures Internet Edition for Linux. Ideal resources would be: - A wide range of PC hardware (Pentium II, 32Mb RAM minimum). - A wide range of Linux distributions (glibc 2.1 at least, with some version of GTK and Gnome installed). - Easy/quick access to them to regression test fixes. Does anyone have any ideas of how to help? Ideas would be: - Do any of you collect lots of different hardware, and have lots of machines available that you'd be willing to let me use? - We could have an installfest / gamesfest where we can try it out. Ideally we'd need to be able to go back to any failing systems though to test fixes. We haven't had any events like this recently - do many people come to them? - If any of you have a small collection of hardware, but are keen to help test, and have the time to be fairly quick. I'd like to test it within the next month. Thanks for your time, and any help! Francis ... This email is for the intended addressee only. If you have received it in error then you must not use, retain, disseminate or otherwise deal with it. Please notify the sender by return email. The views of the author may not necessarily constitute the views of Astrium Limited. Nothing in this email shall bind Astrium Limited in any contract or obligation. Astrium Limited Gunnels Wood Road Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 2AS ----------------------------------------------------------- Si vous souhaitez vous desabonner de la mailing list, envoyez un mail a l'adresse: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> contenant dans le Subject: du message le seul mot "unsubscribe". -----------------------------------------------------------
