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Chaos Communication Camp 07
Working on OpenLieroX at CCC 07 :-)

Once upon a time there was a 14 years old boy who was terribly bored one afternoon. He was looking for some entertainment on the Internet and his eye sudently stopped at LieroX.
He downloaded it, double-clicked LieroX.exe and it crashed his computer. Thanks God he didn't give up and tried to run it again, successfully this time.

Few months later he found out what "addictive" meant in the LieroX download description. Spending many hours practising with other players he was getting annoyed by the crashes and other bugs in LieroX.

Later, when LieroX became open source he bought a C++ book and dived into the coding...

I am a 20-year-old programmer from a little country in the Central Europe. My real name is Karel Petránek.

In late 2006 me and albert founded the OpenLieroX project which is a successor of LieroX, a simple, yet addictive 2-D shooter game.

In august 2007 I together with albert represented the OpenLieroX project on the Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt, Germany.

In the code I mostly focus on the user interface and graphics part and closely co-work with our main designer, Michal Futer.

Lives in: Nachod, Czech Republic

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Agreed to implement 30 features

game-speed multiplikator
force random weapon selection
notify application window on events
Copy & paste for chatbox
Command button for host in game
Options editable from everywhere in the game
Client info dialog
Show player online status
Auto-completing for chat commands
automatic weapon selection if only one weapon is possible
inform client over respawn time when worm is dead
show server version in client lobby
Localization files
Weapon presets
File downloading for host
Local Tournament
teamchat
option for adding bots in host lobby and automatic adding/removing
Breakpad support for those platforms who support the client Breakpad library
Possibility to switch to a bot while playing
bots should try to avoid projectiles
Automatic connecter
Gamescript compiler for Linux and Mac OS X
Automatic updater
statistics: xxx % hp taken
split screen for 4 players
Show Weapons Drops on Map
Disable Windows key on keyboard
IRC support in OLX
Demo recording/replay

Created 0 projects

Created 12 features

Copy & paste for chatbox
Command button for host in game
Options editable from everywhere in the game
Client info dialog
Auto-completing for chat commands
Localization files
File downloading for host
Local Tournament
Possibility to switch to a bot while playing
Make ReactOS working on Virtual PC
Gamescript compiler for Linux and Mac OS X
Automatic updater

Wrote 8 comments

Yes, exactly that :)
I also think it's worth the try :) Within the 24 hours we can co-operate with others via svn and such, so the level selection could be done by a forum poll for example.
This is more a programmer-side feature than a feature for users. We should implement it though, the current crash reporting system is definitelly not optimal.
Is there any way to remove a feature? You can use the /teamchat command or press "o" in the game.
Yes, just for a small checkbox in lobby.
Ok, an idea for extension - you can send messages even to other teams, like this: /teamchat blue "We will own you!"
I thought we could create a wxWidgets GUI application, perhaps with a simple editor.
How about moving the controls settings to player profiles? Then you can have unlimited number of players (as long as you have enough joysticks, mouses and keys on the keyboard).

Rated 70 features

True dual screen management
Integrated Vector Rendering
Support for RTF-formated text messages
Animated Desktop Background
Creating simple text forms in Writer
Improve UI
6 digit frame numbers
Make Proper Rich Text Format (.rtf) files
A good note-taking or journaling software
Win32 port
Multifont text object like CorelDRAW "Artistic text"
Interactive gradient palette like in GIMP but for vector graphics.
Text object like CorelDRAW "Paragraph text"
Layer's folders
Rulers
New Radiosity
Better regression graphics in Calc
Emerge: some notify before upgrading libraries, which will need rebuild of linked software
GUI tool for Internet connection setup
Forecast in weather plugin
Kopete support for file transfer
Kopete support for advanced status
Improved Layers dialog and layers functionality
importing text and bitmaps from .CDR
Ability to create brushes
eps transperancy
Various new features...
Implement Illustrator's(Gradient) Grid Kind of Concept
Create a "Unified Package Installer" keeping non-Programmers in Mind
Warning for incomplete backups
Dynamic accelerators for Totem, Sound Juicer, F-Spot and Evolution
consistent handling of paragraph properties
Add a motion tracking system to Blender
Usable keying feature
use DB instead of filesystem to store Portage tree and other data
Terminal for Nautilus
Firefox: run each tab in an own thread and show CPU-usage of each tab
PDF Output (and CMYK)
game-speed multiplikator
force random weapon selection
notify application window on events
Copy & paste for chatbox
Command button for host in game
Options editable from everywhere in the game
Client info dialog
vectored fonts
Show player online status
Auto-completing for chat commands
Privileges for non superuser
Configurable menus
automatic weapon selection if only one weapon is possible
inform client over respawn time when worm is dead
show server version in client lobby
Localization files
Weapon presets
File downloading for host
Local Tournament
teamchat
option for adding bots in host lobby and automatic adding/removing
Breakpad support for those platforms who support the client Breakpad library
Possibility to switch to a bot while playing
bots should try to avoid projectiles
Automatic connecter
play files from within zip and other archives
Make ReactOS working on Virtual PC
Gamescript compiler for Linux and Mac OS X
Automatic updater
statistics: xxx % hp taken
split screen for 4 players
Fullscreen support for games