Introduction

Welcome to PokéCommunity's second official Team Hack-off! People who sign up will be assigned to teams, and will have two months to plan, prepare and release a playable hack. This is aimed towards both beginners and experienced hackers, and no previous hacking experience is actually necessary. If you're looking for a team to make a hack and haven't had any luck yet, join this! You can find team mates here.

Team roles

To make things run smoothly in teams, each team member will be assigned a specific role, with different responsibilities. There can be many people with the same role in each team, with the exception of the Coordinator. Graphics artists and music composers can be rare so it's possible that there won't be any. Here is the list of the roles and their responsibilities. Roles that do not require any experience or knowledge specific to ROM hacking are in green.

Schedule

The last competition was planned to be only two months long, and was extended by two weeks in order for the hacks to actually get progress done and finish things. This time, the Hack-off will be three months long, so that there won't be any pressure with time, and requirements for each Checkpoint (explained below) will help to ensure teams do not stay behind.

• Sign-ups (Jul 1 - Jul 20): Members may sign up and will be assigned to teams. The size and number of teams will depend on the number of the participants.
• Brainstorming (Jul 21 - Jul 31): Teams will decide on their hack's setting, region and story. Teams will have their own threads in the ROM Hacking Hub to discuss these, and can also do so in Skype group conversations, IRC channels, or other chat rooms.
• Hacking (Aug 1 - Sep 20): Teams will then get started on their hacks. Every 10 days there will be a Checkpoint, where the Coordinators will post updates on their progress in a separate thread. There will be progress requirements that will have to be met for each Checkpoint.
• Testing (Sep 21 - Sep 31): The teams will finish their hacks and do some final polishing on them, and also test them for any bugs.

How to sign up

If you want to join, simply fill in this application form and post it here!

If you have any questions, feel free to post in here and ask, or just message me!

Ooh Ooh! I wanna join!

Username: Splash
Preferred Contact: Skype
Role: Scripter and/or Tester
Skills: Scripting, Inserting Routines, and implementing other features.
Experience: Made hacks like Firered A Reboot and FlareRed

Username/name: Sensual
Preferred contact method: Forum or Skype
Role: Hacker / Tester
Skills: Inserting tiles and sprites (OWs, backsprites, pokemon, etc), changing titlescreen, editing professor intro, etc.
Experience: I'm pretty confident on all the fronts listed above and some.

o/ am I meant to sign up too?

Username/name: Johto_Legend
Preferred contact method: Forums, possible Skype later on.
Role: Mapper & Artist
Skills: Mapping[Towns, Cities, Land Routes] , Artist[Tiles, Sprites, Palettes, Inserting]
Experience: Participated in several Mapping Competitions[February 2015 Winner][9/10], Minor edits to default FR tiles[7/10]

Username/name: BlackStorm
Preferred contact method: Skype: yoyophoenix1963 (Next would be IRC.)
Role: Hacker and Tester
Skills: Hacking - (Pokemon Stat editing, sprite editing, party sprites, etc.) - 10 I can help with storyline and dialogue, too. :P - 7
Experience: I particapated in the first Hack-off and our team won, so yeee. Also working on my own hack myself. May not seem like enough, but trust me, it is.

Signing!

Username: RayZax, Xian Iver Pasamonte.
Preferred contact method: Skype.
Role: Story Writer
Experience: Tried many tools and make a simple ROM hacks!
Skills: When I was collage, I have been a story teller (writer at the sane time)

Username/name: JaDe
Preferred contact method: PM and Skype
Role: Mapper, and maybe secondary Scripter since I don't know ASM. (shouldn't everyone technically be a Tester?)
Skills: Modest knowledge of most standard tools (A-Map, XSE, Item Editor, OW Editor, Trainer Editor, YAPE), Very basic with sprite editing...
Experience: I've participated in all of Mana's Hack-Alongs, and messed around with all the tools I've downloaded. Mapping-8/10, XSE Scripting- 7/10

Username: Ruk!
Preferred Contact: Skype or PM
Role: Scripter and/or Artist
Skills: Scripting, Inserting ASM Routines, Tiler, spriter, titlescreen maker
Experience: GBC and GBA hacker, I've made a lot of unconclused hacks :3.

Username/name: Kowasabi
Preferred contact method: Skype, kik, line, pm
Role: writer is what I am best at or coordinator
Skills: I'm very creative
I have lots of ideas for hack just I don't really know how to make one super well.
I'm also a pretty good leader
Experience: some experience writing I actually had ideas for and wrote up and drew maps for 3 rom hacks just I never published

Thx and I hope you will consider choosing me for one of the teams :)

Username: Zerkrom The Hedgehog (Or Zerks)
Preferred Contact: Skype (I feel more comfortable talking on here via text chat or voice chat.)
Role: Writer Im usually the person who thinks of the story, region and other things that make up a pokemon game.
Skills: Writing stories, planning out the routes and progression of a normal pokemon scenario
Experience: Spriter for 3 Personal Projects, Planner and character designer for a fighting fan game, and I'm planning on making a story driven hack in the future. (Though I do write better with a partner)
Skill Level: 7/10

Username: DyingWillFlareon/Flare
Prefered Contact Method: VM/PM here on Pokecommunity.
Role: I used to be able to map, but my computer is still busted so I can't do that, but I am willing to be a Writer, possibly a Tester, and if need be a Cooridnator.
Skills: I am very good at mapping storylines I believe, and I know I can add good humor and serious balance when I try. I'm also pretty hard working, so I'd remember about the checkpoints as a possible Cooridnator, but my Testing skills might not be as good, since I'll take some time to get through the game....
Experience: I've made some good storylines before but never told anyone, but I can work around whatever others like. I was in the last Hack Off, but all of the more experienced members left the group, see Team 1's story for reference I suppose. Writing(9/10) Testing(6/10) Cooridinating(8/10).

Username/name: Icefire123/Icey
Preferred contact method: PM or Skype
Role: Writer/Coordinator/Composer (I know it's only 2 I can choose, but it's real easy for me)
Skills: Writer/Mapper/Trainer Editor/BASIC Scripting/Composer
Experience: I would say 8/10 haha

Username/name: Sceptile90 or ThePharaoh.
Preferred contact method: Skype
Role: Mapper and Writer
Skills: I can make some okay maps and write a lot.
Experience: 4. I've made a few unreleased 386 hacks.

I can't script at all and my computer's slow.

Username/name: Demingiscool
Preferred contact method: PM/VM on PokéCommunity
Role: Writer or tester
Skills: According to my teacher my writingskills are really high and i've once written a book, so coming up with story's isn't that hard for me. And i've played all existing pokemon games so I really know what a player wants in a game. So I could be a good tester to.
Experience: I don't have any experience with working in a team to create a pokemonhack, but I think everything will be fine.
I rate my writing skills (8/10) and my testing skills (8/10) XD

Username/name: Just call me Gio ^^
Preferred contact method: PC VM or Skype (gio7sm there too)
Role: Writer or Artist
Skills: umm, no additional skills sorry XD
Experience: 8/10 for writing, 8/10 for artist

I'm here for Christos
I should finally have time to actually do stuff!

Username/name: Lost Heart
Preferred contact method: VM/PM
Role: Hacker (8/10) or Scripter (8/10)
Skills & Experience: Overall about 8 or 9/10. I can pretty much do everything but hardcore ASM.

Username/name: CF, Chicken, Fingers, anything you want to call me idrc

Preferred contact method: I'm good with Skype, these forums, or anything that is available to me as long as their is no face2face or voice contact (I don't have a mic )

Role: Scripter, Tester

Skills: I can insert Pokemon sprites and edit stats and such. I can also help with writing. Other than that, I'm willing to learn or at least try to learn.

Experience: Scripting 5-6/10 I'm pretty new to hacking in general and I'm trying to learn.

Testing 9/10 I'm a pretty good bug finder and I have a decent amount of experience testing games.

My scripting's not great and I don't have any experience putting together really long scripts, but I think I'm learning pretty quickly. I have experience learning HTML and Javescript, so I'm familiar with coding.

Username/name: User: Trenhoj
Preferred contact method: kik username: trenhoj
Role: tester/ Coordinator
Skills: mapping 1/10 Testing 9/10 Coordinator 10/10
Experience: Previous hack off and testing and getting help.

Username/name: PlayGameTom/Thomas
Preferred contact method: Skype
Role: Tester, (If needed a Translator), Writer
Skills: Speaks English, French and German, IQ of 130 makes some things pretty easy
Experience: Tester (7,8/10) and (Translator (8.5/9)) , writer (4/10) Pretty new in the hacking Scene, tried some tools for NDS and GBA Roms