I have some questions about crossfire if anyone knows??

[matt]

Im doing a school project and I need to know who makes it, When it was started, how many users, how influential etc.

any help would be great

[Leaf]

Im doing a school project and I need to know who makes it

In this case, "who" is a group of people. Current developers and contributors can be found at:

https://sourceforge.net/project/memberl ... p_id=13833

All (or nearly all?) people who have every contributed can be found with the 'version command in the game.

Authors and contributors to this program:
(Mark Wedel)
(Frank Tore Johansen)
(Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
(Tyler Van Gorder)
(Tony Elmroth)
(Dougal Scott)
(William)
(Geoff Bailey)
(Kjetil Wiekhorst Jxrgensen)
(Cameron Blackwood)
(Joseph L. Traub)
(Rupert G. Goldie)
(Eric A. Anderson)
(Rickard Eneqvist)
(Jarkko Sonninen)
(Karl Holland)
(Mikael Lundgren)
(Mikael Olsson)
(Tero Haatanen)
(Lasse Ylitalo)
(Niilo Neuvo)
(Markku J{rvinen)
(Sylvain Meunier)
(Jason Fosback)
(Carl Edman)
(Charles Henrich)
(Gregor Schmid)
(Raphael Quinet)
(Jari Vanhala)
(Tero Kivinen)
(Peter Mardahl)
(Matthew Zeher)
(Scott R. Turner)
(Ben Fennema)
(Nick Williams)
(Laurent Wacrenier)
(Brian Thomas)
(John Steven Moerk)
(Delbecq David)
(Chachkoff Yann)

Images and art:
Peter Gardner
David Gervais
Mitsuhiro Itakura
Hansjoerg Malthaner
Mårten Woxberg

When it was started t

"Records" indicate Crossfire was started around 16-Feb-92

how many users

How many curreny active users? How many people have ever(!) logged in and played? Total number of players files on all servers?

There's not really anything in place to track this kind of information. Also, one can play on their local computer or a private network (server) and no way to track that.

Going by the number of downloads on SourceForge is misleading because a number of those downloads are from FTP mirrors. There's no access to the logs to determine more details other then total number number of downloads.

how influential etc.

Not quite sure what you mean by this.

There have been at least three spin offs (aka forks) of Crossfire that I know of over the past 10 years.

AFAIK, two of those projects didn't really pan out. The third one is been re-factored(?) to "something totally new or different" (?)