Is this dead? I hope not. I was looking forward to this.

Unless you do some serious organization and some serious motivation it is dead

Yeah, I still come back to it from time to time. If I ever release my tilemap library thingy, it might make development easier. I use the same engine here:

Again, that is 6MHz, but I do have a screenshot where I toggle 15MHz mode in it:

We already have a basic storyline, so tiles and programming seem to be the two main things needed right now.

We already have a basic storyline, so tiles and programming seem to be the two main things needed right now.

I'll try some sprites later to try to keep it alive (it's like a fire that is almost out and you're trying to find twigs and stuff for it ).

The problem, though, is if the project lasts like 3 months or longer, will the head programmer remain interested in calc dev for that long? Many people start calc programming then quickly lose interest for some reason.

This is why I always felt that if a project was going to be a team one, that only one single person should work on the code and that all the sprites should be done as early as possible into development. Else it falls apart easily compared to solo projects. I mean, why has The Reign of Legends 3 only took 6 months to complete as a solo project when all team projects of similar size never came close to being finished?

Yeah that's a problem as well. Of course we can write our code on the computer but testing calculator programs is cumbersome due to having to switch back and forth between a dev environment and an emulator. The only calculator on which I believe it could be easy to work on team projects is the HP 39gII or the HP Prime, as the emulator lets you edit code almost like in Notepad. For the HP 39gII/Prime, program files are saved in a computer folder as you edit them so they can easily be copied online or you can write a script to backup your stuff. TIGCC wasn't too bad due to the test on emu feature, but for most people it didn't even automatically launch the programs.

This is why with Axe and BASIC I always used the calc to code rather than an external editor. Of course I might be forced to switch to TokenIDE when I work on larger 84+CSE games, though, since typing is so slow in the program editor. That said, the problem is not just limited to Axe, though: It just seems that people aren't as dedicated to calc dev as they are for their main hobbies (Minecraft, Call of Duty, League of Legends, computer development, etc), so it's much easier for them to lose interest permanently.

Also in my previous post, I was gonna cite Reuben Quest and Metroid II as other examples, because it took 3 weeks per Reuben Quest games to complete and 2 for Metroid II, but in Reuben's case, almost every battle backgrounds and monsters were ripped from various NES/SNES games, the 2nd game was heavily based on the 1st and for Metroid II, it reused a lot of code from Diortem (although heavy modifications were required since Diortem used Omnicalc instead of xLIB APP). But I guess it can be another example of solo projects that went further (faster) than any team project. Maybe Reuben Quest would never have been completed if it was a team project.

One example of my calc games that suffered from being a team project was Mystique, because the guy vanished 1/3 into development then lost interest when he came back. The worst part is that we saw each others at school IRL (although I didn't have his phone number nor address). He just called in sick almost every day. The rest of the game was finally completed in solo by me, but it suffered in terms of story and it took twice longer to complete than Illusiat 12 (which was much longer). Mana Force 2 had problems as well due to my teamate being too ambitious and wanting to make the game overly difficult, so two dungeons had to be cut from the game. Illusiat 9 was fine, though.

Ok, now we all saw the point that we'd need organization on this - is there anybody who thinks he may be suited for this task, or any one of you can think of someone?
I myself have too may projects going on, keep switching between them....