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Geek Culture / Programming Team? (not a team request)

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2009 07:27
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I've really been getting into programming recently, and I want to find a small team of people to start making games with. I can program and make cool little tech demos by myself, but it takes a team to really start going somewhere. I also want to get a career in the programming industry, and being a part of a team would be a great experience.

Does anyone have tips about how to set up a team, or where to find a team? I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of 3-4 people.
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Silvester
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Well, first of all you should show your skills as to what you can do so far, but also tell people about which areas you are still limited at... Then perhaps hand out a few screen shots and demos for people to drool at, Note that it doesn't matter what the graphics look like if you're just a programmer, it's very rare to see a Programmer also being able to produce all the media for their game on their own.

Then, if you found a few willing people, you should consider how you're going to keep all the changes/additions to your game the same on every computer, this is the tricky part, since everyone can add/change at the same time... And then you'd need to merge it all! For this I suggest using SVN, however ALWAYS check for a new revision before you start uploading, otherwise you might overwrite someone else his changes.

Then as final, don't go around calling your team a company, this is generally frowned upon and will just make people look at you as if you were a complete idiot. It's fine if you name your team, just keep it as a team not some fake company that's not even registered as one.

Those are my hints/tips, I think you could do something with those.


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Thraxas
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2009 10:36
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Yeah the best thing you can do is showcase your work. If people see you are making an effort then they will usually offer up their help.

I posted a game over at the Game Maker forums years ago and someone emailed me saying they liked the game but my graphics were rubbish. They then offered to do the graphics for me. I took them up on that offer and then my game looked pretty good.

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TheComet
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2009 13:33
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If you are programming in DBC (I doubt it), you can check out these threads:

DarkNOOBS : http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=131352&b=10
DarkPRO's : http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=153330&b=10

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2009 02:31 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2009 02:32
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I know DBP best, but I'm picking up a lot of java, and I've done a fair amount of c++. Still, I'm mainly looking to improve my c++/java skills.

Quote: "don't go around calling your team a company"

Heheh, I know exactly what you're talking about , I get so annoyed by people doing that!

As for the SVN thing, i don't think that would be the right method to go about file sharing. The risk of overwriting someone's files is too great. I have a server computer, so I think I could set up a site (with a little bit of help), and just give people passwords, and allow them to upload or download files.

So, I guess I'll start digging up some of my old projects, make a slide show or something that looks impressive, and try to get a website up and running. You should be hearing more about this soon
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Silvester
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2009 22:58 Edited at: 3rd Oct 2009 22:58
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Quote: "As for the SVN thing, i don't think that would be the right method to go about file sharing. The risk of overwriting someone's files is too great. I have a server computer, so I think I could set up a site (with a little bit of help), and just give people passwords, and allow them to upload or download files."


I think I mentioned that, however you might want to look into Turtoise HG or GIT, both are similar to SVN but are more reliable yet also a tad more complicated. I think however that one of them, if not both support merging versions, or at least prompt you that your edited revision is a different base one then the one on the server if it has been changed. I might be wrong though.

I've done quite a few things in this region myself, although most people think of me as a complete boon that doesn't show much of skill I have my good points, although in the wrong direction(Legal issues, apparently Blizzard didn't like me much ) I have been programming Private Servers for several games for a year or two, and have even reprogrammed entire 2D (M?)MORPG engines to my own likings along with a few other people that joined in halfway through. So I completely understand the issues of File Management, however no matter how secure or well monitored you make it, there's always a slight chance that something goes wrong.


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the_winch
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You can't accidentally overwrite someone else's changes with SVN.
http://ariejan.net/2007/07/04/how-to-resolve-subversion-conflicts/

By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.
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Silvester
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Quote: "You can't accidentally overwrite someone else's changes with SVN.
http://ariejan.net/2007/07/04/how-to-resolve-subversion-conflicts/"

Interesting, since I've done it a bunch of times. Guess Google's SVN servers are evil.


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Jeku
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Quote: "You can't accidentally overwrite someone else's changes with SVN."


Yah, you can't accidentally overwrite someone else's changes with any version control management system--- that's one of their main purposes!


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Diggsey
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Posted: 4th Oct 2009 13:27
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I use tortoise SVN, and it's very good You can use sites like assembla.com to host SVN's for free. (It also comes with a load of good features for managing the project like bug reporting)


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Darth Vader
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Noob Alert!
What's SVN?

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 4th Oct 2009 16:34 Edited at: 4th Oct 2009 16:35
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... sorry, couldn't resist

A quick googling yields the following wikipedia result: SubVersioN.

Edit: link won't work, strange... oh well, here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svn_%28software%29

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