Hey all,

I mostly just lurk around these forums and don't tend to post a lot so probably nobody here knows me. I was thinking that it might be cool to come up with a game or something either for mobile or steam that is a community effort. Something where we can get the regulars involved in design of gameplay, music, graphics, etc and come together and see what we could make with everyone's involvement. Seems like it'd be pretty easy to get some cheap hosting for this and just use bitbucket or github for a repo and allow people to (mostly) freely contribute. This would obviously have to be moderated to some degree but it seems like a neat idea to see a forum of a collection of random people come together to create something. I saw a thread in here that was like "Project Ideas" so that's kind of why I was thinking of this. Doesn't necessarily have to be a game but I don't have a better idea.

Has this been done/tried before? Also does anyone think it's a good idea / would be interested? I've recently come into some free time and thought it would be a good programming exercise and having something like this would keep me motivated and focused.

Thanks!

The regulars don't have any reason to use it, so it's more for the lurkers. But they lose interest quickly, so there's not much point. There are probably other groups you can use for small projects. Or find people in your class.

Well it wasn't about a need. I wasn't suggesting this as a "learn to program" project. I'm already a well versed programmer and know my way around basic game development. I was more thinking of it as a neat collaborative experiment than to get people who aren't already knowledgeable to become interested.
I'm no longer in school and wouldn't consider doing this with any coworkers, or friends for that matter because of the losing interest quickly point you made, so this seemed like an outlet to gauge interest. I already had some ideas laid out I'd been working on so I just figured getting some insight and assistance from others who know what they are doing would end up well. But like I said, just attempting to gauge interest. If nobody would be interested in a collaborative project it's probably just something I'm going to eventually get around to slowly on my own, but motivation is contagious IMO so having others around that share your goal is helpful.

+1 to this

the regulars get told that the company has 700+ bugs that need to be squashed before August.

Oh and by the way you have to finish all your enhancement work too by the same date.


and that is basically my life for the next 2 or 3 months

Maybe you should get better.

literally 700 of my bugs. I am the anti-dev


but seriously, LETS JUST RUSH NEW STUFF AND FUCK REGRESSION TESTING!

This post was edited by Eep on Jun 19 2016 12:28pm

Who needs testing, just release the software. Your clients can be your QA.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Jun 19 2016 06:26pm

management: "Version 1.0 is ready right?"
coder: "not even close"
management: "Well can we just call it 1.0?"
coder: "you can call it whatever you want"
management: "1.0 it is then"

3 weeks late
"compiling 1.0.2.2"

This post was edited by Ideophobe on Jun 19 2016 07:58pm

A couple years ago my boss came up with this brilliant idea that we should demo an incomplete project when we reach certain milestones instead of waiting until the end. About 1 month into a 9 month project, the team had the first demo for the ui mockups. The ceo and cio were excited by the progress and announced to the company it was almost complete and would go live in a few weeks. Boss never invited them to an internal demo again.