[PROJECT] Skarn - The Home of Quality WoW Modding

[Skarn]

Introduction

Welcome to Skarn. Skarn is a project where we are building a brand new world, based on the World of Warcraft game engine. We’re building the world by hand, and it’s accompanied with new races, classes, zones, dungeons, quests and more. Our world has a unique storyline developed from scratch by our team, it’s not related to Warcraft universe at all. Skarn is an open project, where everyone can join and contribute to different parts of it such as worldbuilding, server development, quest designing or lorewriting.Right now we are under a severe development and are looking for new contributors. If you’re not skilled enough or don’t suit our requirements, but you would like to participate in the development process, please contact us. We will see what we can do. However, you should have enough amount of time and a will to learn the modding basics. Don’t hesitate to ask if you’re interested in joining Skarn. You should also remember that Skarn is a legitimate and serious project, in which only passionate and dedicated people will be accepted during the recruitement process - unlike most expansion ideas. Skarn, will continue progress and is extremely strong in its design and its members. Therefore we can guarentee this project will not fail, will not "drop/collapse" or have any major issues. The project will take a long time to complete, but we have do have a solid structure and therefore the more people we have the faster it will take off.

We understand that it's really hard to make a fully custom world. That is why, we have plans of transfering our project with all the existing content into "a fan-made expansion for WoW" if something goes wrong with our current idea. However, I hope it will never happen

You can see that our thread doesn't have any screenshots or videos at the moment. We already have some content but we don't like the idea of posting WIPs. So, you have to wait a bit to see some pictures or videos. It won't take very long, so check this thread from time to time. Some lore and concept information will also come later.

I would also mention that we want to bring back large high quality modding and expand the modding process and that we are happy to help train a certain amount of people if we think they will be good enough in the future.

Best regards, Skarn project team.

Contact us

Privately on Ownedcore
E-mail: [email protected]

We are recruiting

Level Designer:
Requirements:
Basic understanding of Noggit, and associated tools.
An idea of spawning models, and where they belong.


Plusses:
Have a project or some screenshots of your work to show.
Understanding of additional level design technologies such as alphamapping and light editing.


Server Developer:
Requirements:
Fluent knowledge of C++, Lua or SQL.
Experience with World of Warcraft Emulation
Complete knowledge of MySQL software


Webdesigner:
Requirements:
Flexible webdesign knowledge
Great skills using Photoshop or similar software

Plusses:
A running website to show off.

Quest Designer:
Requirements:
Knowledge of how quests are designed.
Apropriate writing and grammar skills.
An ability to remember all aspects of our lore.

Plusses:
Experience in writing stories
Experience in quest design
Basic C++ knowledge

Dungeon Designer:
Requirements:
Advanced knowledge of Noggit SDL usage.
Experience in working in different 3D editors such as Maya, 3DS Max, Blender or MDLvis.
Understanding the Texture Flow of WoW.

Plusses:

Some models to show.
Basic understanding of WoW model convertation.
Basic hex-editing knowledge.

Class & Race & Spell designer
Requirements:
Knowledge of DBC file editing.
Knowledge of SQL programming.

Plusses:
Experience in class/race or spell designing.

MPQ-Patch developer
Requirements:
Knowledge of the MPQ system in WoW.
An ability to keep huge amount of files in order.
Plusses:
Developer of MPQ software.
Samples to provide.

Community Developer:
Requirements:
Experience as moderator on well-used forums.
Fluent English or Russian.
Well-written communicational skills.

Plusses:
Knowledge of Multible languages, especially German,Spanish or Russian.

3D Model Artist
Requirements:
Knowledge using 3DS, Maya, blender, or other great 3D manipulation Software.
Understanding the flow of World of Warcraft 3D models.

Plusses:
Have a final product to show.
Knowledge of using Blender with M2Mod plugins.

Lore writer
Requirements:
Experience in fantasy storywriting
Advanced language skills
Time to read the lore others wrote.

Plusses:
Some stories to show off

Big thanks to Elinora (MadameGrip). We used her recruitment thread as an example for ours.