User:Crush

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

I was contributing to many different aspects of the project. Pixel artist, mapper, programmer, game concepts and i even tried to compose music, although with minor success. My credo is "when you want something to be done properly, do it yourself". I have retired from TMW development because my job doesn't allow me to invest that much time anymore and I would rather like to invest the limited time I have into my own project. But I am still moderating the TMW forum and give advice to my successors there.

Projects I took part in

Pixel Art

These pieces of art are mostly made by me:

• Woodland tileset
• Woodland Village indoor and outdoor tilesets
• Pink monster
• Ambient GFX
• Female version of cotton shirt
• Some tuneups at female player set
• The following Headgear sprites: Miners helm, Fancy hat, Headbands, Santa hat
• Light platemail armor

I also made some minor improvements at the following pieces:

• Desert tileset
• Dropshadow of the bats
• Shading of the mushroom monster.

Maps

The maps made by me in chronological order of creation:

• new_9-1.tmx.gz (first woodland map)
• new_4-1.tmx.gz (Bat Cave)
• new_14-1.tmx.gz (woodland map released with 0.0.21)
• new_15-1.tmx.gz (desert map released with 0.0.21)
• new_16-1.tmx.gz (woodland map released with 0.0.21)
• new_18-1.tmx.gz (woodland village surrounding)
• new_19-1.tmx.gz (woodland village outdoor)
• new_20-1.tmx.gz (woodland village indoor)

Programming

These are the subsystems where i was the major programmer:

Client

• XML based animation system
• Ambient overlays
• Smooth scrolling
• XML based client-sided equipment sprite database and monster database
• Particle engine

ManaServ

• Provisoric monster AI
• Attacking
• Attribute handling
• Lots of script bindings
• Lots of admin commands

Subpages

• User:Crush/Crafting (notes)
• User:Crush/Repairing (concept)
• User:Crush/Scripting (notes)
• User:Crush/Weather (draft)
• User:Crush/Special_Attacks (draft)
• User:Crush/Economy (notes)
• User:Crush/Food (draft)
• User:Crush/Alcohol (draft)
• User:Crush/Particle Engine Tutorial (draft)
• User:Crush/Move_Code_Rewrite (notes)
• User:Crush/Customized_Equipment_Technical (concept)
• User:Crush/Kaizai (draft)
• User:Crush/Dynamic_Dynamic_Recoloring (notes]
• User:Crush/TMWServTodo