Guild Wars 2

Hey guys! I was floored when the public API beta was released yesterday. I’ve been waiting since they first announced the would-be mobile apps. So, I decided to gauge interest on /r/Guildwars2 soon after the announcement and got a strong response from nearly 20 people who were interested in joining a collaborative effort to make awesome, open-source apps for Guild Wars 2. Now I see this forum bursting with cool ideas and example projects not even 24 hours later. How awesome is that?! I think there’s more than enough passion here in the community to eventually build the apps ArenaNet first set out to offer us. Interested? Let’s dive in!

Public Chat Room
A place to discuss the API and related topics in real-time

Trello Organization
Organize teams, share and vote on app ideas, get projects off the ground
Post your Trello username and I’ll invite you to the org ASAP.

I fully support this type of collaboration. When I get home, I’ll see what I can contribute. Collaboration in this capacity is the best way to learn how to code better, as well, so watch this space guys. I’m excited to see what the community comes up with.

Ayusaki.6739:

Collaboration in this capacity is the best way to learn how to code better.

I agree, made a custom wvw score ‘widget’ today with the new api, but the code is messy and i could learn a lot from my mistakes, example: http://elferink.cc/fspscores

I’m just a nooby programmer, so I’m gonna sit out and watch how it works, and if I’m lucky pick up some techniques on the way.

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

I think step one would be to get good SDK’s for a number of popular languages.

Github: jdalley
Trello: jdalley

C#\Javascript I’ll chip in anywhere I can!

Cilio.4569:

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

Is “Mimi” your display name or your @username? I need the @username to invite you. Turns out there’s a ton of Mimis on Trello!

So I’m having second thoughts about the Github organization. It requires organizing users into teams and the organization would own any repos involved. I would rather everyone retain ownership of their respective projects. I don’t want friction to overshadow collaboration, which is the ultimate goal. I’m going to nix the Github organization for now so we can keep the repositories separate and just collaborate and manage each project in the Trello organization.

That said, I do still want to create a page to show all of our apps in one place. For now, I’m just going to build a simple website and use the Github API to pull info on everyone’s repos.

Blumoon.5437:

Cilio.4569:

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

Is “Mimi” your display name or your @username? I need the @username to invite you. Turns out there’s a ton of Mimis on Trello!

@mimi20

Thanks! I added you.

Hi,

Good idea, you can add me :
Github and Trello : Weris

Awesome. I’d love to program with people to make GW2 apps. I currently work in C# and SQL, but I could start dusting off Python if there’s more interest in that.

Trello – @gilosean
Not on Github or any source control system yet.

I agree that it is a better idea to let individual projects choose their own source control with maybe a central person who has access to all of them so even if devs leave the project can keep going with new people. We might want to have a central development spot for things that everyone will be using, like an API wrapper for each language?

Gilosean.3805:

Awesome. I’d love to program with people to make GW2 apps. I currently work in C# and SQL, but I could start dusting off Python if there’s more interest in that.

Trello – @gilosean
Not on Github or any source control system yet.

I agree that it is a better idea to let individual projects choose their own source control with maybe a central person who has access to all of them so even if devs leave the project can keep going with new people. We might want to have a central development spot for things that everyone will be using, like an API wrapper for each language?

Awesome! I added you to the Trello org. A central spot for all the API implementations sounds great for the central app page. I’m thinking I can list a collection of all API implementations/apps and filter by language; maybe even sort into categories eventually to separate purpose-built apps from tools and frameworks.