4 Official Xonotic Media Channels for PR
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8 - Blog - http://www.xonotic.org/team/blog/
9 - Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/xonotic
10 - Identica - http://identi.ca/xonotic
11 - Desura - http://www.desura.com/games/xonotic
12 - Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/xonotic
15 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/xonotic
18 - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonotic
23 Our first announcement of this project is coming sometime after Illfonic first unveils their Nexuiz game at GDC http://www.gdconf.com
24 which is held March 9th - 13th.
26 Some supporting requirements before we make this announcement:
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31 - Prepare website with at least
32 - a simple frontpage placeholder
33 - and a forum for answering questions
34 - Setup twitter and facebook pages
35 - An FAQ page focused on the fork
36 - we’ll add entries to it as we go
37 - we’ll refer people to this whenever we can
39 This announcement will be pushed out through the following channels:
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42 - Through the “HELP” system on popular Nexuiz servers, like Simba in Europe and HOCTF/HODM in US
43 - Slashdot, digg, reddit and other social news sites
44 - Nexuiz IRC channels and private messaging
46 - Email or PM to key individuals who left Nexuiz long ago (Perhaps using AT or NN forum private messaging)
48 While our official project announcement is going to be very neutral, the Slashdot/digg/reddit posts will reflect more of the community’s overall impression of the Illfonic issue.
53 The main goal for this introductory announcement is to state **1) our reasons** and **2) our plans**, but we will focus more on our plans. This announcement should not focus on finger-pointing. Rather, it should focus on our own values and the goals that we plan to accomplish with this new game. We will have to touch upon the **broken trust** that stemmed from decisions made behind closed doors. But our main goal for this announcement is to make our intentions clear, and, of course, to unveil the new name. We want to begin filling up our IRC channels and our website.
55 Words we will try to not use, or use limitedly:
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66 1. A new game formed from the major contributors of Nexuiz GPL
67 2. The name of the game is Xonotic
68 3. The website is xonotic.org
69 4. IRC channel is \#xonotic on quakenet
70 5. Development IRC channel is \#xonotic @ freenode
77 3. Focus on our values
82 1. Restructure project leadership for more balance
83 2. Improved project organization
84 3. More focus on the community
85 4. Better management of marketing and public relations
86 5. A more defined artistic direction
87 6. More emphasis on recruiting and communicating with new contributors to the project
89 What will change in the game?
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92 1. New set of player models
93 2. New player animations
95 4. Default maps will get a makeover and new ones will be introduced
96 5. New names for some weapons and game modes
97 6. Improved bot AI system
98 7. Increased quality and detail of textures
103 1. We can’t give a timeline at this moment, but we will try to produce our first release as soon as we can
104 2. Instead, we will invite people to our IRC channels and to our website to keep updated
110 2. Most voted by the team
111 3. Other reasons about why we chose the name
116 1. We appreciate everyone’s support
117 2. We will try to be open and supportive with new potential contributors (as opposed to an “I’m too 1337 for you” attitude)
118 3. We want to keep an active flow of information among the team members
119 4. We look forward to creating a game that everyone will enjoy
121 Details or topics we will not mention in our announcement
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124 (better to spread them out for future announcements)
126 1. Central user system
128 3. Details about roles