Glossary

This article lists agreed upon terms for the specific development departments to ease communication.

Audio

3d modeling - doing things in 3D (eg. terrain asset, like a house or a tree)
Concept art - inspirational artwork, may work as a input for some 3D modellers.
Rendering setup - Overall "conditions" (tile size, camera setting, lights) to make real in-game asset from 3D models. It is held in single file suited to use in 3D software
2D graphics - pixel art in other words - things done in pixel-based editors like Paint or Gimp
Rigging.
Promotional art - nice things that may be suitable for re-publishing it in other places. Logos, screen-shots, cool concept art or some elements of design (eg. splash screen).

Crafting.
Inventory.
Party: a group consisting of the PC and allied NPCs that currently follow you through the game.
PC: the player character also known as the avatar. The character you'll be controlling in PARPG.
NPC: non-player character that can interact with the PC in certain ways. Some NPCs might be hostile while others are willing to join you and become members of your party.
Ruleset.
Turn-based combat.
Subdual damage (Non-lethal damage)

Mission statement: the Mission statement is a brief statement of what we would like to achieve with the PARPG project.
PAR: the PARPG asset repository. Used as an addition to the Subversion repository to store all digital assets of the project: graphics, audio & video.
Public relations: public relations are all tasks of the project management staff related to communicating with the public. That includes: updating the development blog, community interaction at external forums, wording release announcement.
Recruitment: recruitment is the challenge to recruit new contributors for PARPG. The recruitment process includes: wording recruitment templates, identifying places worth recruiting at, getting in contact with potential contributors and giving them an introduction to the project.
Subversion: Subversion is a revision control software utilized by the PARPG team. It is commonly used in all kind of software development projects.
Trac: Trac is a project management software we're using. It's similar to a bug tracker but offers additional features such as a Subversion repository browser, visualized DIFFs and milestone planning tool.
Workflow: the Workflow describes the translation process from mere proposals to the implementation of agreed upon game concepts.