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about

• http://freeartsearch.schattenkind.net
• http://freeartsearch.schattenkind.net/artitems/browse

the main aim is to bring artists and developers closer together and encourage contact and dialog

• a good search for existing free art (images,models,audio)
  • focused on searching/linking rather than hosting
    • index stuff from existing content repositories, project svn/cvs repositories and forums
  • possible to manually add single/multiple links to media data
  • preview images / thumbnails of textures,models,etc
  • tagging
  • licensing infos
  • technical infos (texture resolution, mesh poly count, mesh anims...)
  • contact info to reach the authors... (e.g. username + link to project forums or similar if no public email)

• a database for projects and people
  • list/search artists and interests (concept drawing, model, anim, texture, 2d-art, texture, sound, music..)
  • list/search developers and interests (programming languages, experience with frameworks,)
  • list/search for projects using free art
  • cross referencing / associations
    • which people are involved in which project
    • assets used in multiple projects (textures, models, sound, music,...)

organization

• team
  • hagish - core
  • lechuck - layout
  • ghoulsblade - spiders

• forum-thread by LeChuck in unixgamedev http://board.unixgamedev.org/index.php?topic=16.0
• forum-thread by ghoulsblade in freegamer http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=310 , (the original intention was a bit different, but the underlying idea to bring artists and devs closer together was the same)
• http://blog.unixgamedev.org/2007/10/new-project-search-engine-for-free.html (blogpost by LeChuck on unixgamedev.org)

database design

graphviz: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7275

at the moment this is just a sketch not a design

digraph G {

artitem [shape="box"];
repository [shape="box"];
svnuser [shape="box"];
tag [shape="box"];
artist [shape="box"];
license [shape="box"];

artitem -> artist [label="0-1"];
artitem -> repository [label="1"];
artitem -> svnuser [label="0-1"];
artitem -> tag [label="*"];

repository -> license [label="*"];
repository -> svnuser [label="*"];

svnuser -> repository [label="1"];
svnuser -> artitem [label="*"];

tag -> artitem [label="*"];

artist -> artitem [label="*"];

license -> repository [label="*"];

}

technology ideas worth investigating

• we'll probably use http://www.cakephp.org/ rapid development webframework similar to ruby-on-rails
• svn list : search for (textures, models, audio, ...) in opensource project repositories svn/cvs
• blender batch mode / importers : automatically generate mesh previews

existing websites to consider

• http://games.kde.org/people.php
• http://www.ohloh.net
• social bookmarking, social networking

free content repositories

• http://freegamearts.tuxfamily.org/
• http://virtualworlds.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page virtualworlds wiki
• http://www.lowpolycoop.com/forum lowpoly coop
• http://worldforge.org/ worldforge
• http://rltiles.sourceforge.net
• see also Links

projects and forum threads with free art

• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=114 (fife demo : cc-by-sa 3.0)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=16 jc RPG (animal models, liberal art licenses)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=15 fortress (2d iso castles and soldiers, liberal art licenses)
• http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=23 sfz art, spacegame with interior models under free licenses
• http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ spacegame, most models,textures and audio under GPL
• http://openarena.ws/ openarena quake3 with art under free license
• http://www.freeorion.org/ space strategy game with lots of content under free licenses (e.g. planetmaps)
• http://www.sauerbraten.org/ only partially free if at all...
• http://www.wesnoth.org/ 2d art, free
• http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/ (partially?)
• http://www.promode.org/?p=537 (quake:CPMA planning to make creative-commons art)
• http://radakan.org/ : cc-by-sa http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=297
• http://ebonrai.com/gplart gpl'dart repo of stuff from kaelis (license info embedded in .blend notes)
• http://ufoai.sourceforge.net/ content gpl ?  : svn proplist -R -v base/textures  : license info
• NetPanzer, snoballz  ?
• globulation (in debian repos -> content probably free, mercurial instead of svn)
• game projects on gna ? warzone
• allacrost, freeciv, wormux, widelands, uqm, strategus, freecraft, supertux, adonthell
• http://lgames.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.libregamewiki.org/List_of_games
• http://bomberclone.sourceforge.net/
• falcons-eye and vulture's claw ( http://darkarts.co.za/project/vultures/download )
• http://darkarts.co.za/project/nhtiles
• https://gna.org/projects/dungeon dungeons of wesnoth ?
• http://silvertreerpg.org Silver Tree

notes

• BlenderNotes for embedding license-notes and similar in a .blend file
• FreeArtSearchDiscussions