Stendhal Game: Contribute to an open source software project
Channel: stendhalgame
Date: 2012-01-19

Stendhal Game is an open source project which anyone can contribute to. This video explains how beginner or experienced Java coders, artists, map makers, musicians, and more, might contribute. A Table of Contents is below. The video uses http://stendhalgame.org/development as a portal to contribution and highlights the importance of chatting to the developers at http://stendhalgame.org/chat/

There are loads of tutorials on our wiki including how to set up the Eclipse development environment and get started with your first Java code for a quest, so it's an ideal project for beginners, supported by a friendly development team.

0:01 Introduction
1:32 Source code download
2:11 Development portal from stendhalgame.org/development
2:49 Stendhal Quest Contribution
5:07 Graphics, Sound, Items, Maps, Creatures
5:28 Chatting to developers in IRC 
7:20 Java Code navigation and design
7:47 Bugs and features tracker
9:50 Patch contribution
10:00 Eclipse as an IDE
10:20 Conclusion