Dear /prog/, this is /vp/

Dear /prog/,

Sorry to be of a bother but we /tr/ainers in /vp/ are in quite a struggle.

Currently a bunch of us are working on creating Pokémon games based on the North American continent, called the North American Pokemon League Project. However, we realized that creating a romhack was not the best solution to this due to inherent limitations on what we can do, and that RPG Maker XP doesn't provide what we absolutely need.

I'm not a programmer, so please bear with me as I explain.

One of the /prog/rammers in our ranks suggested that perhaps we can create an original engine scripted for the purpose of mimicking a Pokémon game (with added modifications such as seasons, real time weather, etc). It would be an open source project and would run under OpenGL.

Furthermore, it would ideally also have a Wysiwyg editor so that a non-programmer willing to learn the basics and who doesn't want to make any dire changes in the engine (because they don't know how) can make a simple Pokemon game. /vp/ would love it. I'm sure everyone on 4chan and beyond would love it.

Anywho, we're serious about this project. We have creative heads, but simply lack programmers. It would be a blessing if anyone here would help us out or take part in the inner workings of the project in general.

Our IRC is: rizon.net #napl
Our Wiki is: napl.wikia.com
Our Forum is: http://z7.invisionfree.com/NAPL/index.php?act=idx
For a glimpse into our story-script, we have some for two of our regions:

Great Lakes: https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1U0IWXg6NR6zQeCIR1Uot1jelWDOj2IDKwAqJXtLG5IU&authkey=CLPHmcQP#

Pacific: https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1RU9DYm90IkbpL3OtjfIbpf3GDzN9-SgjfVftMgsDK04#

Thank you for listening/reading! We really appreciate it!

I'd like to say that you need to give more details about your project constraints: The platforms you hope to target, the libraries you intend on using, the languages you're considering, the time scale you're thinking about, etc.

Open source and OpenGL are decent starts for constraints, but by no means do they compose the entire picture.

If /prog/ is to help you, you need to help us help you. I also lament that the board is so full of shit in general that this help thread is one of the better threads on the front page.