Developer Survey for Hero's Tale Game


	  Name:_______________________________
	  Email: _____________________________
	  Country:____________________________
	  
      
      The purpose of this survey is to determine project members' 
      interests and experience in order to  assist in the organizing 
      of teams. Please answer as honestly as possible, since ideally 
      the teams will be equally balanced (in experience and ability).

      Please complete and return this survey to Trevor Bechtel
      (trev@bechtels.com) by Aug 29th, 1997.  When emailing, put the word 
      'survey' all by itself on the subject line.


      * To what capacity are you interested in working on this 
        project? (Rank your top three choices).
	    __ Administration (Source, build, distribution, & test servers)
            __ Design 
            __ Artwork 
            __ Soundwork 
            Programming
         	__ Main Viewer (3D graphics)
         	__ Animation
         	__ User Interface (2D graphics / non-main viewer UI's)
		__ Audio systems (effects & music)
         	__ Artificial Intelligence
         	__ Core game engine
		__ Internationalization (Providing framework for localization)
         	__ Networking
	    __ Localization (Translating text to non-english languages)
            __ Testing
                   
                  
      * The project is currently currently intended to be released as
        a public domain (GNU?) game in which the only profit to be 
        gotten is fame and experience. There is no money involved. 
	This will not be changed at this point.  How do you feel about 
	this business model? 
            __ I have no problem with this model (or lack thereof).
            __ I have a problem with this.  (Explain)
	       ___________________________________________________

      * What programming, scripting, or documentation language(s) do 
        you know? 
        
            __ Java __ C  __ C++ __ Pascal __ Ada __ Fortran 
            __ tcl  __ sh __ csh __ perl
            __ HTML
            __ other _________________
            
      * Which of the above languages do you absolutely hate to use? (0 
        or more) 
        ___________________
        
      * Which of the above languages do you most enjoy to use? (1 or 
        more) 
        ___________________
            
      * What development environment(s) do you currently use?
        ___ Symantec Cafe
        ___ Microsoft Visual J++
        ___ Cosmo Code
        ___ Other _________________________
        ___ Just a text editor!
                 
            
      * Do you consider yourself a strong Software Developer?
        ___ (Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is 'not at 
             all!', 4 is junior level, 7 is senior level, 10 is a 
             systems architect.  
	     
      * How many years of professional software developement experience
        do you have?
        ___ 
      
      * Do you consider yourself a strong coder? Rate yourself on how 
        well you write code and think about the following factors 
        (1 is terrible, 10 is god-like)
            __ clean/clear code
            __ level of commenting
            __ speed of writing (1 is slow, 10 is fast)
            __ number of iterations it takes to get your code right 
		    (1 is a thousand iterations, 10 is one)
      
      * What hardware do you have access to that you could use for
        this project? 
            __ PC (Dos,Windows 3, Windows 95, Window NT, Linux, other) 
            __ Workstation (SGI, Sun, other) 
            
      * What is the model, version, and speed of your computer's 
        processor?
            Model:   __ Alpha
                     __ Intel
                     __ Mips
                     __ PowerPC
                     __ Sparc
                     __ Other ______________________
        		    
            Version: ______ (486, Pentium, R5K, Ultra, etc.)
            Speed:   ______ Mhz
            
      
      * What connection speed do you have to the internet?
        (Preferably, you'd want to have a connection that supports
        TCP/IP and a Java-capable browser!)
            __ 14.4k
            __ 28.8k
            __ ISDN
            __ T1
            __ Other __________________
            
      * Do you have any artistic ability? (enough for state-of-the-art 
        graphics?) 
            __ Yes
            __ Yes, but not state-of-the art!
            __ No
            
      * Do you have the ability to create original music? 
            __ Yes
            __ Yes, but not state-of-the art!
            __ No
      
      * Do you have the ability to create sound effects? 
            __ Yes
            __ Yes, but not state-of-the art!
            __ No
            
      * How much time do you think you will be able to set aside for 
        this project? 
            ______ hours per week
            or 
            ______ Days per month if the contribution will be small:
                   (including hours per day as well in this case)
            or 
            ______ One-time contribution of X amount of hours:
            
      
      * If you have any special expertise or knowledge that you think 
        is applicable to the project, please elaborate on it below:
        
        ____________________________________________________________
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