I want to help

We are an open source project, so anyone is welcome to help. Consider what you can offer (as described below), and make sure you join our our Discord. It's important for us to be able to easily communicate and the two chat setups (the first being our community and most contributor discussion, the later for reaching most of the development team) allow us to do that while reaching more of our community.

I know how to code

Great, the projects are in Java. Please give our Coding Style Guide a read first. Next, our preferred method for someone to help with code is to start small. Have a look at the tracker grab a bug or RFE and start there. If you play and have found something that needs improvement, submit a PR for it.

The core developers will review all PR's and provide feedback to ensure things aren't going to break existing save games or the program itself. PR reviews happen as the core developers have time to review them. Back to us being a volunteer project, so people work in in their spare time.

I'm an Artist

Fantastic! Before you start making sprites know that we have an artist that we've worked with for years, with have a very precise plan forward for ground units. That being said, no one wants to make Aerospace Sprites and they are badly needed.

Sprites need to be in a .png format, and submitted without shading or using the shading scripts found here.

Other art such as Tilesets should be discussed before you put the work into them, as often there are code limitations that can impact these. If you have an idea for something else art-wise for the project, please reach out to us.

I'm a data guy

Awesome, we have one of those too. We have to be very careful of what information we include in the projects due to copyright issues. We also stay to canon when doing data - for example, we wouldn't accept someones "Super Awesome 3025 RATs" unless that person can prove their data is based on canon.

We do have some data projects we would like done, but if you have the time and want to help, the best way is to join the Discord or Slack and look for Hammer. He coordinates the data stuff and can provide guidance.

I know how to document

Amazing! We'd love to expand our documentation in the docs folder to help players learn and use the project.

Word of warning: we are a large project and our documentation is currently very limited. Try starting small, and go from there.

I can't do any of the above

Good news! You can still help! Play the games, find bugs and post them (read this first). It's especially helpful if you can download one of the nightly builds, so that bugs can be spotted prior to putting out a dev or "stable" release.

Also, if you notice rules from Table Top that are missing or errata hasn't been implemented, open a RFE (Request for Enhancement) on the tracker. If you open an RFE, please include the page numbers and references to the rules.