The real way to get team members is to be honest with them up front, tell them your plans, keep them involved, and make sure everyone's involved and having fun. Most importantly, remember that unless you're paying them REAL MONEY, they're not employees.
I wrote an article on this a few months ago; it's available on my site.
Mason McCuskey
Spin Studios
www.spin-studios.com
Perhaps most of them have failed, but some succeed. Id software is an example of this.
btw, your game looks boring, mason. Ray-traced pre-rendered graphics is old technology, and certainly nothing I'd want to blag about.
yours,
An amataur game developer
Also, all the routines that are "cutting edge" supposedly are mostly old-hat for graphics workstations, so if you are truly bored by things that arent cutting edge, you shouldnt like anything out there today.
-Geoff
Me for myself did kinda the same, but after a while I stopped. And went working for my own again. I'm more like a graphics dude lately, effects and stuff. I got some real ideas which should be new to the industry, and shouldn't be too hard to implement. Once I finished my education, I will make a demo with all these effects implemented, and see what they think of it.
Is THIS a better way, in your views, Gromit?
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Dance with me......
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Lack
As for the slander that took place on this thread #@*% you. If you are going to give feed back on someones game, then do so.. creativly. if you just want to bad mouth it, then #@*% off, the world can do with out you.
My god! You're right! I don't know why I didn't see it before! Thank you for saving my reputation... trying to release a game with pre-rendered graphics would have been the most embarrassing mistake of my career!
See, I did some research... turns out there are virtually NO ARTISTS working in the game industry, because no real development shops use pre-rendered art. That's why you see so many artists looking for work on the message boards, and why rendering packages like 3D Studio and Maya are hardly ever purchased by real game companies.
Last night I scrapped Qua and started coding a game that generates all its art on the fly. It's pretty basic now, but in a couple of days it should be able to generate stuff that looks like Diablo II or Baldur's Gate... only my art will be so much better, because it won't be pre-rendered!
Thanks for opening my eyes.
Mason McCuskey
Spin Studios
www.spin-studios.com
I also agree that young people getting together to make a game is cool, but they just brag about it. For instance, they'll say that they're working on a new RPG which will be the best ever. Does anyone ever see that game? No, it's never finished. These groups are taking on projects which are too big for them to handle and complete. Just my two cents...
