Zombie World Online is basically my stab at an MMO engine/zombie MMO for iPhone, Android, Playbook, PC, Linux, and Mac. NetSpanner, the engine, is fairly similar to Graal's engine, having a social, online SDK that connects to the server. The animation/level editors, chat interface, and script editor are built into the SDK, or you could say RC. You just right click on a level/animation or script and hit edit, and then the proper editor is brought up. Every time you click save, the copy online is also updated on all clients and RC's. If you're working on an image and someone's using it in their level, the moment you update the image on the RC, the image on their level is also updated- even in their level editor.

I plan on licensing the engine out for royalties or a flat price on iOS/mobile development and allowing free development on PC.

Here's a UI demo using the built-in UI system and scripting language (Which is similar to GS2, based off GameMonkey with some slight modifications, most of which were done by 39ster).

The demo was recorded on my iPhone using Display Recorder. Any framerate drops or whatever you see in the video are because of Display Recorder.

Looking for pixel artists.  

From a glance at that video it seems like your project is a near success. The main interface is neat and tidy and all you need now are players. Good luck with your project and best wishes that it catches on.  

The engine's a success, yeah, but I haven't done much in the way of gameplay. I need an artist.

Also, website http://zwo.deljam.net/  

If there was a form of 'level editor' for your project then I'd be sure to help out. However on the note of graphics, there are many artists in the iPhone community which showcase their talent on this forum. I'm sure you will find some budding users which would leap at the oppourtunity.  

Posted by Elusive

If there was a form of 'level editor' for your project then I'd be sure to help out. However on the note of graphics, there are many artists in the iPhone community which showcase their talent on this forum. I'm sure you will find some budding users which would leap at the oppourtunity.

There is a level editor. It's built into the RC.

If you've ever developed on Graal before, you'd feel at home with my engine and SDK, but it's from scratch and completely independent from Graal. Also supports quite a bit more features even at this stage and performance is better as well.  

Interesting. Needs a better name though.  

I'd imagine that the game's RC is not freely downloaded at anyone's free will. Only the selected dev team.?!  

Are you looking for programmers/scripters too by chance?

btw this looks amazing!  

You never cease to surprise me downsider, keep up the amazing work!  

Posted by Elusive

I'd imagine that the game's RC is not freely downloaded at anyone's free will. Only the selected dev team.?!

The RC is available and connects to whatever devservers you have it configured for. If you don't have staff rights on that server, you can't connect. Simple as that. Right now the only server being ran is my own, so yes. The dev team are the only people able to connect.  

Posted by Downsider

Looking for pixel artists.

What general style are you lookin for? And are you offering pay for staff?  

Posted by Froggy Krueger

What general style are you lookin for? And are you offering pay for staff?

I'd be willing to pay some for reputable and talented artists. Any other forms of pay would be in some kind of royalties from the IAP model.  

I know that Tileset your using Downsider. ;)  

Posted by Downsider

I'd be willing to pay some for reputable and talented artists. Any other forms of pay would be in some kind of royalties from the IAP model.

I still want to know if you're looking for scripters/programmers.

I recommend using a royalties system for licencing. It would encourage indie developers that cant afford an expensive flat rate and allows for profiting off it its potential. Most professional dev teams would probably be using engines made by large companies because they can afford them and because they are more powerful.(unity ,UDK, smartfox server, etc)

A young individual could develop a great game for free, then if it is very successful you will profit greatly. If you charged a $200 flat rate, you would only make $200 off of a highly successful game. Also consider some people might not even want to pay that amount.

Look at the UDK, it uses a 25% royalty system(and I believe first $50,000 of revenue isn't charged), and it is very successful and major companies still use it despite the royalties.  

Posted by Skill

I still want to know if you're looking for scripters/programmers.

I recommend using a royalties system for licencing. It would encourage indie developers that cant afford an expensive flat rate and allows for profiting off it its potential. Most professional dev teams would probably be using engines made by large companies because they can afford them and because they are more powerful.(unity ,UDK, smartfox server, etc)

A young individual could develop a great game for free, then if it is very successful you will profit greatly. If you charged a $200 flat rate, you would only make $200 off of a highly successful game. Also consider some people might not even want to pay that amount.

Look at the UDK, it uses a 25% royalty system(and I believe first $50,000 of revenue isn't charged), and it is very successful and major companies still use it despite the royalties.

I'm not looking for any engine programmers. Scripters? Yes, depending on the skill level they're showing.

Royalties could work. UDK works off royalties, but UE3 requires a license purchased up front. Bigger companies expecting multi-millions in profit buy the expensive license, because for them, it's cheaper in the long run. Perhaps I'll offer the same, but either way it'll be quite affordable and mostly targetted toward indie developers.