Hello everyone!
I'm in starting a fansite for a sports MMO game called Football Superstarts (FS)(
http://footballsuperstars.com) (Soccer game) and I'm currently beta testing it. As I love communities and starting them as well, I originally came up with the idea of making a site where the different player created teams could make their own leagues on a website. So that's how FSLeagues.org (FSL) was born.
The idea was well recieved by the FS comminity and the development team too, but I quickly saw other possibilities with the whole project. OK, so we got the league creation/managing thing going on, what came to my mind was a site that could also act as a cross between UEFA and FIFA (the organizations, not the games) combined for FS.
FSL become suddenly much more than just a league management system. I had a little chat with one of the deveopers on IRC not too long ago, and he let slip that they where also planning on making their own API so that sites like FSL could gather data from the game. This is really cool and really vital for FSL to work and the other cool thing is that the devs of FS are 100% behind me on this project, and I think that if I want a specific function from the API then there's a high possibility that the devs will provide me that. That will also make it a lot easier on my development team (whenever I get it
).
Just remember that these ideas I've written here is just really a tip of an iceberg and there's a lot more to it and it's going to be huge! Especially since I specifically want the project to be made from sratch because it will be much easier to work directly with the game and all the functionality I want. I'm well aware that it's a lot of work, and lots of obsticles, but to me....that's the fun of it.
With that sumarized, I need a few poeple with good PHP skills, and I don't say no to good AJAX knowledge either.
So, onto the more technical stuff.
The site is going to be written from sratch (too bad we can't do any demolition...watched too much of Extreme Makeover - Home Edition on YouTube
or should this be Extreme Makeover - Web Edition?
) written in PHP (DOH!) and using MySQL/PostgreSQL.
Now, I do have a pretty good dedicated server and a tech guy to run it. The server is also using the Nginx webserver (so no .htaccess *sob*).
I'm alos looking for one or two designers that can help me out with the layout.
A vice-president position is also available that requires a person with good knowledge of web developement.
The site is also going to follow the Web 2.0 trend aswell.
I got a forum setup
http://forum.fsleagues.org)
OK, two more things really quick.
To know more of the game and what I really talk about, check it's homepage (
http://footballsuperstars.com) and read about it. There's pretty amazing stuff there.
Also, check out the thead I made about this project on their forums (
http://footballsuperstars.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1688).
So if you think you got what it takes? Send me an E-mail!
And last, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this stuff. I'm NOT sure if this is the right forum to do it in, but well, you'll never know.
P.S. They even got my thread on ther front page! Woo!
