Call For Developers & Testers

Currently GoFast is still being developed as a closed source game. However, we fully intend to make GoFast open source once it is deemed ready to be placed into the wild to be tested and developed by others. In fact, our long-term goal is to have development of GoFast continued on exclusively by those in the open source community once our university project has come to a close. We see our prototype game as a seed that that has the potential to grow into something great.

Our criteria for when to release our prototype into the public domain is as follows:

• It must be bug free
• It must be easy to use
• It must be well designed (code)
• It must be well documented

Most of these criteria have already been met, and we will be opening up GoFast to the world shortly (via GoFast's SourceForge.net project page). Thus we are currently looking for interested parties to fulfill the following roles:

Java Developers

We are actively looking for individuals whom are interested in contributing to the development of GoFast. Specifically, we are looking for developers whom:

• are avid java programmers (experience with NIO & Swing preferred, but not necessary)
• have time to allocate to this project
• believe they can take GoFast to new heights

Game Testers

As our game is exclusively multiplayer, we are looking for individuals whom would like to try GoFast and provide us with some feedback on it. In order to play the game one must have:

• access to many physically distributed computers (for example, computer labs at places of education, office building with many computers [cubical farms work great!])
• the ability to place and run a program on those computers (ideally via Norton Ghost or the like)
• the ability to convince 4-10 other people (friends/coworkers) to play GoFast
• running shoes

If you are interested in becoming an a developer and/or tester please contact Matt Anderson (manderso AT sfu DOT ca), GoFast's current project manager.