Hmm. I could help a bit. I could write routines in Axe for use with basic.

If done, in order to work out, it would need to be done the modern way, as in open source, using code repositories or project managers like big Linux projects, and such place would of course require the ability to submit images/sprites/etc, while this topic could be used to discuss ideas/progress. That way, it won't fail due to the only people who got the code or pics vanishing entirely or due to data losses. Also if someone loses interest and the entire story is already written, then it would be easier for newer people to take over.

Most team projects failed before due to poor planning, a teamate vanishing or the lack of good project management. Also to work out the best way it would most likely have to be Axe or BASIC (plus common libs, such as in xLIB, XCOPY or DCS). That way, more people can help out.

And yeah, even if the project is open source or easily accessible for people willing to help, it would still be good to assign certain people to specific tasks and familiarize themselves with the game variables/lists used and stuff.

This sounds pretty cool.
Too bad the only thing I can do in basic is math

If i have some time and if it's well organised, i could help some stuff, most of the time i can come up with a way to do something, but i'm one of the persons who can't optimize/decent use of routines xD

I could help too, preferably by coding, but I could try sprites or maps as well.

But I think it should be either mostly axe with small parts of basic, or fully axe, so that it will still work at a good speed. Also, I'd go for sprites instaed of dual-layes ASCII, because it's prettier.
If we want a bigger community, we shouldn't confirm the idea that calculator programming is slow and limited.

I'll help if it's in axe/asm

I could sprite/design map.