Development team information

Post by **dabo** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:36 pm

[2011-07-22] As you could read in the latest update Forward left the project due to personal reasons. It feels good to bring you some good news again by officially welcoming Xalfen to the development team. Xalfen has among other things experience working with C# which is a great fit for us. This means we are three developers again and I will be looking to add even more developers down the road.

[2010-10-12] Starting today, Forward has joined the development team and will help us realize this project. He is experienced in both C++ and C# which means we are now three programmers in total. Expect a new entry in the blog this week or next on what the near future has in store. Welcome Forward!

[2010-08-31] Good news everyone, the development team is growing. I am no longer the only programmer on this project, a couple of days ago jatahati joined the team. He brings valuable C# experience to the team and we share the same interest towards this project.

My initial plan was to complete the basic framework before considering expanding the team but the progression has been very slow as of late thus I believe this is the correct move in order to speed things up. I am sure jatahati will swing by and say hello and I would like to welcome him to the team. Let's hope this Swedish and Finnish collaboration will benefit everyone.

Post by **B. Stinson** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:44 pm

Awesome news!

What kind of stuff has he done, anything big or notable?

Ogilthorpe · Post by **Ogilthorpe** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:39 pm

That is fantastic news!

Thanks for the news dabo, and welcome to jatahati.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:39 pm

That's great news!

ArtVandelay · Post by **ArtVandelay** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:48 pm

Excellent. So many good ideas/requirements documented in this thread for you to work with and now an additional hand. The experience of EHM has taught all of us what we would like and not like in a game and I really hope this one could be the result of that.

Thank you Dabo and now Jatahati.

jatahati · Post by **jatahati** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:09 pm

Hi to all.

Late at last friday I stumbled on this topic about dabo's work and were instantly carried away with the fact that someone had actually started to build long waited successor for the EHM. I have had plans and hopes that SI would release EHM 2007 source codes some beautiful day and I could do some updating and upgrading on it. But I found dabos project and the amount of support it had here. Soon I had contacted dabo and had my hands on the database structure.

As for me and my background, I've played manager games (mainly Sports Interactive's) from Championship Manager 2, through all EHM:s to Football Manager 2010. So I have some idea what the game should have and how it should work. Even though I've played a lot more FM games than EHM, I follow much more hockey than football (I've watched 51 Finnish SM-League games in past 2 seasons on rinkside + numerous NHL, KHL & SM-League from TV) .

dabo mentioned my "valuable C# experience" that can be translated to working for several years as full time C# programmer (not with any games though, more in business solutions). I still think that I can offer lot of knowledge on C# as language and good programming habits to the project and most importantly add lot of programming hours (progress comes with work not knowledge

). And I'm still working five days a week so I'm doing this as a hobby.

Main reasons for me to get involved are:
1. Get adequate hockey manager game for myself to play
2. Help others to get adequate hockey manager game for myself to play
3. Perhaps some day help to create a good hockey manager game

So here is my brief introduction. Now if you excuse me I'll start doing my new hobby

ps. i'm really lazy at writing to forums so i'll apologize for that in advance (still reading though).

YZG · Post by **YZG** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:54 pm

Welcome jatahati and thanks for joining this project. It sure is an outstanding news!

- YZG

ArtVandelay · Post by **ArtVandelay** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:06 pm

jatahati wrote:not with any games though, more in business solutions

So you're used to not having good specs to work from. Excellent.

If you guys do need any assistance in compiling the requirements across these topics, let me know. would be glad to help.

jatahati · Post by **jatahati** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:27 pm

ArtVandelay wrote:
jatahati wrote:not with any games though, more in business solutions
So you're used to not having good specs to work from. Excellent.

If you guys do need any assistance in compiling the requirements across these topics, let me know. would be glad to help.

depends on the specification of good specs

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:39 pm

Welcome, jatahati! It sounds like you're bringing some excellent experience to help dabo. The project already looked promising with what dabo has done so far... and now it looks even more promising!

Post by **CeeBee** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:34 am

Welcome jatahati

This is great news for those of us waiting for a new hockey sim.

Post by **dabo** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:06 pm

ArtVandelay wrote:If you guys do need any assistance in compiling the requirements across these topics, let me know. would be glad to help.

Sure, do it if you want.

Post by **Alessandro** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 3:28 pm

Terrific news. I was SCARED before opeining this topic as I was pretty sure Dabo wanted to shut down the show, but thanks God we had the opposite! This is a good day for all us. I'll think to you when my shot of vodka will flow down

Post by **dabo** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:17 pm

Alessandro wrote:Terrific news. I was SCARED before opeining this topic as I was pretty sure Dabo wanted to shut down the show, but thanks God we had the opposite!

I am planning on posting other announcements in this thread as well that's why I needed a fit-all kind of name.

This is a good day for all us. I'll think to you when my shot of vodka will flow down

You should share the vodka with the developers, I firmly believe that is the only way to write bug free software.

empach · Post by **empach** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:57 pm

Welcome to the team jatahati. I wish you two good luck!

Post by **CeeBee** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:31 am

dabo wrote:
Alessandro wrote:Terrific news. I was SCARED before opeining this topic as I was pretty sure Dabo wanted to shut down the show, but thanks God we had the opposite!
I am planning on posting other announcements in this thread as well that's why I needed a fit-all kind of name.

This is a good day for all us. I'll think to you when my shot of vodka will flow down
You should share the vodka with the developers, I firmly believe that is the only way to write bug free software.

Will Canadian rye whiskey do the trick?

I'll gladly share a round or 3 with you

duff88 · Post by **duff88** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:12 am

Great news indeed!

After a few slow weeks on updates and board members' ideas, I feared the worst while opening a thread titled "Important". I'm glad this is such a positive announcement!

jatahati · Post by **jatahati** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:55 pm

CeeBee wrote:
dabo wrote:
Alessandro wrote:Terrific news. I was SCARED before opeining this topic as I was pretty sure Dabo wanted to shut down the show, but thanks God we had the opposite!
I am planning on posting other announcements in this thread as well that's why I needed a fit-all kind of name.

This is a good day for all us. I'll think to you when my shot of vodka will flow down
You should share the vodka with the developers, I firmly believe that is the only way to write bug free software.
Will Canadian rye whiskey do the trick? I'll gladly share a round or 3 with you

I think that 3 rounds might be needed now and then

Russian vodka or Canadian whiskey will do the trick

Post by **archibalduk** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 12:36 pm

This is great news! Welcome Jatahati!!

Post by **dabo** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:11 pm

News added to the first post.

Ogilthorpe · Post by **Ogilthorpe** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:23 pm

More fantastic news! Welcome Forward!

Forward · Post by **Forward** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:39 pm

Hi,
I'm new here to the forum but i follow TBL long time ago because that's the most active NHL:EHM forum.

Since the release of NHL:EHM 07 i've been playing it and loved. It was a really sadness knowing that SI didn't worked on future EHM versions like they do with Football Manager (a game that I'm addicted)

Year ago i tried to start a game but i was solo on project and and lacked the knowledge to develop games. I'm a business software developer, most for websites on ASP.NET (C#) i also helped my co-workers on some c++ applications for company.

I always had a dream to develop a game, and looking for the games out there I saw that had a lack of NHL Manager Games.
So, I looked to this Dabo project and seemed very interested with many people sharing their ideas to help the game developers, and looking to the team and knowing there were only two developers and a language that it's familiar to me I set myself to help on development to be the best possible ice Hockey Manager game.

So I'm here to help, not only the developers (on game development) also you that want to play the game just like me

Post by **CeeBee** » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:56 pm

Welcome to the forum and congrats on teaming up with dabo and jatahati.

The project is looking better and better all the time

empach · Post by **empach** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:25 am

Welcome abroad Forward.

Post by **Alessandro** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:23 am

Welcome!!! Come on I want to play a good KHL mananger