I'm Snowmane, and let me start by saying that I really love the idea of what you are trying to achieve (and it seems you've achieved a scary amount
I played EQ2 since just after launch until 2011 and raided up to Hard mode content at that time. Sadly, our raid guild folded at that point and myself and several close friends decided to quit the game then. Recently I've had a few pangs to play again, and while looking around I found this awesome initiative. At the moment I'm looking around partly to be nosy, but if it looks like I can help out, and the project is to my liking, I hope to contribute something to what you are doing.
In terms of "real world", I have 16-17 years C# experience (I started when it was in beta), and I'm currently principal architect for a (casino) gaming company. While it's rather different and web -> server based (no game loops as such), I'm sure there is plenty of stuff that I would be familiar with. I've also played a little with the Unity game engine (no games you'd want to play so far
In the first instance, if there was anything people wanted to be beta tested I'm game to be a guinea pig, but I think it might be quite fun to actually contribute code wise. I don't have tremendous amounts of time (my job requires me to be on call 24x7 quite often), but there is always something to be done right?
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