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[Kurogane]

One last thing, I know that the tickets are assigned to a developer, is there any way that I can assign a ticket to myself, or do I have to message someone? If you couldn't tell I'm new to Trac as well.

Edit:

Hold on, I just figured out that Trac is a legit program, I'm going to figure this out myself

Edit Edit:

Yeah I couldn't figure it out haha, I'm pretty sure I just downloaded stuff that would create a Trac server or something to that effect

[Magnate]

One last thing, I know that the tickets are assigned to a developer, is there any way that I can assign a ticket to myself, or do I have to message someone? If you couldn't tell I'm new to Trac as well.

Once you have a login on trac, you can assign tickets to yourself. (If they are unowned, nobody will mind; if they are already assigned to someone else, it's polite to discuss the ticket with the owner before reassigning it!)

To get a login you need to contact takkaria - I don't know anyone else who can create one for you. You could try a PM on this forum.

[Pete Mack]

I think you're making a mistake here. Just now, Angband is mostly in maintenance mode--fixing bugs, minor feature additions. While it's a real mizvah to work on such things, it's not really suitable for a class project.

If you want to make a significant contribution as a team, you should volunteer for something less mature or a significant new feature.
In the Angband world, that means:

* Unified GFX model (eg Isoband) (feature)
* Object-oriented rewrite (eg pyAngband, angbandLib) (immature project)
* 4GAI (feature)

Fixing bugs is not a worthwhile class project.

Edit:
There is one other new feature in angband that might make a worthwile class project.
Angband currently only runs on a very small number of handhelds devices, and not very well at that. If you can make a genuine keyboard-free port (e.g. for generic large-screen smartphones) with a particular implementation (Android, iPhone, or WinPhone7), you'll have a real contribution with educational value.

UX skills are highly marketable in industry. (After all, UX is Apple's main selling point.)


Edit 2:
If you want a real challenge, come up with a model that allows multi-player angband that scales with the number of users involved.
That is,
* With one user in detection range, it plays like ordinary angband
* With many users in LOS, it plays like something completely different.
* Turns are based on disturbance, not on artificially imposed real time