How can I help?

You can contribute in multiple ways:

• If you have a bit of time and have at least a bit of artistic talent and computer graphics skill, I currently need the following:
  1. PNG icons of all cultures on transparent background with the height of exactly 16 pixels (width can vary) for the deck-builder filtering.
  2. Wound and burden tokens in PNG format on transparent background with dimensions of 100x100 (or so, doesn't have to be square dimensions).
  3. Players move tokens - same requirements as above for wound and burden tokens. Each token should have a player number on it (1, 2).
  4. Culture tokens - same requirements as above for wound and burden tokens. This is a low priority request.
  5. Icons in PNG format on transparent background that will be used on the game screen to show deck/hand/discard/dead pile counts. The number of cards in each will be written on top of the image.
  6. Modify the existing images for the cards in the sets that are already implemented and have an errata issued, to reflect the errata.
  7. Any other graphics you think might improve the look of the user interface.
• I need help with hosting of the server (at the moment I use my home PC and host it from home). If I don't find any, I will have to set it up on Amazon EC2 which is quite expensive ($300 per year or so). If you can help out with hosting of the server, here are the requirements:
  1. Apache-Tomcat 6+ or any other Java Web Server
  2. MySQL database
• If you know how to program in Java and have at least a bit of experience, you can help out with implementation of the card sets. About 95% of cards in a set is just a matter of a few easy lines of code. The only problem is, that this also takes a huge amount of time. Consider a small set with 120 cards, each card taking 5 minutes to implement (easy - right?), it's still 10 hours.
  If you wish to help out with that, I promise I will do the more difficult cards (like Return to Its Master).
• If you enjoy playing LotR and have plenty of free time, you may just test and report the problems.
• Donations? Well I do spend a lot of time working on it, but I love (almost) every moment of doing it. If I will have to host it on Amazon I might really use some financial support though...

If you wish to help out, you can contact me on marcins78@gmail.com to discuss.