pluto

Edit: Blah.

> (contributors who I don't know exactly what they did)

For me, nothing more than ideas and conceptual help, I fear.

The arrangement should be a different one IMO. A rather sharp line can be drawn between programming of the engine (and parts that have been swapped to being implemented in c4script now) development, content development and art development. While the people that worked on CR and earlier shouldn't be included in the credits (as long as they didnt do anything on OC), they should be mentioned because after all, we are just building on top of this big piece of work where many people were involved. As well as Redwolf Design.

Already in Clonk Rage and earlier, the number of one-time or sporadic contributors was quite big as opposed to those who really made 90% of the coordinated work. Being one of those, I always found it to be an unfair practice to be mentioned in the same breath with those who contributed one thing and then left (or stayed but didn't contribute anything further after being "in the team"). With Clonk being open source, I think the number of these kind of contributions will rise appreciably. Now, it is always difficult to draw a line between from where one is really part of the team or "just" a contributor, and who is that to decide without one game designer to put his name at the top? At the end, there will always be people who feel that their work they put in the project was not credited enough. At least, if it is either about being "in" the credits or "out of" the credits. But it does not have to be about that.
The number of devs which are for example part of the team and are working on game content is rather clear: Maikel, Mimmo_O, Randrian, Ringwaul and Zapper. So is the number of devs working on the engine and creating the art. Other (sporadic+one-time) contributors can be listed seperatly grouped under "Contributions" or "Thanks to". And as I said, that list will grow very long over the years. Already now, I guess, that list would be about 4x the size of the oc team. So either a scrolling like in Clonk Endeavour / other commercial games / films could be implemented, only the core team will be displayed in the ingame credits with a hint to a complete list of contributors in a seperate file or the credits screen will be left out of the game and the dev team + contributors are listed in a seperate file / website. I'd be ~ok with any of these options (but I favour 1 or 2) as long as there is a clear visual distinction between the OC team and contributors.

Havent made any content so far, sorry.

A quick run of [ulr=http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/]GitStats[/url] yields this:
Günther Brammer  277 (16.44%)  307886  281384  2009-05-08  2010-09-22  501 days, 8:10:00  140  1
Tobias Zwick  272 (16.14%)  33638  50507  2009-07-14  2010-09-21  433 days, 6:07:02  106  2
Armin Burgmeier  227 (13.47%)  90994  60594  2009-04-26  2010-09-15  507 days, 20:09:22  111  3
Nicolas Hake  171 (10.15%)  296492  337155  2009-05-08  2010-09-06  485 days, 9:21:10  83  4
Randrian  162 (9.61%)  1328464  1033703  2009-09-03  2010-09-13  374 days, 20:49:45  84  5
Charles Spurrill  133 (7.89%)  15344  7572  2010-01-15  2010-09-10  238 days, 11:53:24  74  6
Sven Eberhardt  131 (7.77%)  8848  5429  2009-04-21  2010-09-08  505 days, 0:15:03  58  7
Maikel de Vries  86 (5.10%)  16140  10133  2009-11-05  2010-09-19  318 days, 2:58:11  53  8
Mortimer  43 (2.55%)  5246  15883  2009-08-12  2010-04-17  247 days, 21:58:40  16  9
Benjamin Herr  39 (2.31%)  61066  59905  2010-01-25  2010-04-05  70 days, 12:40:37  22  10
Peter Wortmann  32 (1.90%)  140463  2284  2009-04-21  2010-08-03  468 days, 23:48:07  19  11
Lykanthrop  29 (1.72%)  3840  2301  2010-01-20  2010-07-18  178 days, 23:10:47  10  12
David Dormagen  27 (1.60%)  2757  1183  2009-05-15  2010-09-20  492 days, 23:22:48  19  13
Ringwaul  16 (0.95%)  1216  261  2009-09-24  2009-12-23  90 days, 3:07:51  15  14
Caesar  9 (0.53%)  2890  2938  2010-01-08  2010-09-16  250 days, 23:28:46  7  15
Alexander Semeniuk  4 (0.24%)  10  3  2010-04-09  2010-03-12  -29 days, 20:06:51  3  16
Clonkonaut  3 (0.18%)  1379  1265  2009-07-18  2009-10-14  88 days, 15:55:36  3  17
mizipzor  2 (0.12%)  46  22  2009-10-22  2009-11-25  33 days, 20:37:43  2  18
carli  2 (0.12%)  42  223  2010-03-02  2010-03-28  26 days, 11:30:22  2  19
Zapper  2 (0.12%)  973  629  2009-05-14  2009-05-14  0:07:46  1  20

These didn't make it to the top: Mark Haßelbusch, Luchs, Carli@Carli-PC, Asmageddon, sven2, TomyLobo, Stan, ModernClonker, MimmoO, Lauri Niskanen, Gurkilein, Dominik Bayerl, Carl-Philip Hänsch, C:\Users\Newton\AppData\Roaming\The Bat!

Based on Ringwauls original post, Günthers posting, author.txt files and some detective work using admiin tools in the forum and bugtracker ;-), here is the newest version of the credits.

I made some small changes on the grouping, f.e. I mentioned the C4DT and masterserver seperatly and removed the Web header (f.e. who is admin on the website is really not interesting for the game). Everything written in italics are new (taken from various author.txt files):

Engine Programming
Armin Burgmeier (Clonk-Karl)
Günther Brammer (Günther)
Nicolas Hake (Isilkor)
Sven Eberhardt (Sven2)
Peter Wortmann (PeterW)

Content Development
Maikel de Vries (Maikel)
Tobias Zwick (Newton)
Richard Gerum (Randrian)
Charles Spurrill (Ringwaul)
David Dormagen (Zapper)
Mimmo

Art
Richard Gerum (Randrian)
Charles Spurrill (Ringwaul)
Tobias Zwick (Newton)
Alexander Semeniuk (AlteredARMOR)
Mimmo

Web
Admin
Tobias Zwick (Newton)
C4DT Eclipse plugin
Mortimer
C4Masterserver
Benedict Etzel (B_E)

Thanks to Contributors
Benjamin Herr (Loriel)
Mortimer
Caesar
Manuel Riecke (Spell)
Carl-Philip Hänsch (Carli)
Asmageddon
Florian Graier (Nachtfalter)
pluto
Marky (Mark Haßelbusch)
Luchs
Gurkenglas
Lauri Niskanen (Ape)
Dominik Bayerl (Kanibal)
Matthias Rottländer (Matthi)
Faby
Checkmaty
Felix Wagner (Clonkonaut)
TomyLobo
Stan
Peewee

Special Thanks to
RedWolf Design GmbH and all those who contributed to earlier versions of Clonk for the passion they put into Clonk and for agreeing to make Clonk open source.