3rd January 2024, 2:34 PM
(3rd January 2024, 11:13 AM)Different Wrote: So if someone were to create a new game from scratch, would you be interested in wearing multiple hats for a critic, creative, and beta tester? We need smart people like you in the syndicate to ensure that we elevate PR2 to the next level.
I'm not really sure... I guess I do have pretty broad interests when it comes to game development (I'm working on a game engine from scratch, and even though I'm not a professional artist by any means my main hobby is 2D / 3D art and animation, although I really love all forms of art and try to dabble in as many as possible). I guess the problem though is that I don't have a lot of energy these days... I'm starting my PhD this year and would also like to dedicate some time to finishing the engine and working on some of my own game ideas / other artistic projects that I've been slowly cooking over the years. Ideally I'd like to do what I can to help though, if only to encourage people to take some initiative towards something they care about.
What I really love about video games is that they're arguably the most comprehensive form of creative expression - game development spans various areas of science (like mathematics, physics, computer science, etc.) and pretty much every form of art (visual, literary and performing). I think for people with broad interests there's very little that's more appealing, and I would love to be able to share my own broad appreciation of art and science with others. I think people especially overestimate the technical component of game development; basic programming, for instance, is way easier than most people imagine, and if you really wanted to you could probably follow a tutorial and learn to make a simple game with a pre-existing game engine like Godot or something in a day or so.
Anyway... if you really want to see this vision realized, it may be that you might need to be the one to take initiative and cultivate the necessary skills to see it through. But I think this might be easier and more fun than you expect.
(3rd January 2024, 12:55 PM)~JBG~ Wrote: It's probably going to be difficult to find someone willing to program a whole new game from scratch without being compensated for it, that being said here are the platform racing clones that I recall from the top of my head.
Grid Based Obstacle Race
Northadox Platform Racing clone
PR4 by sebastianpolak120
Platform Racing 2 in c++
Head Bumper Editcraft
I think what you might find is that people who have the right skill set for this kind of thing will be more interested in exploring their own original ideas rather than iterating on someone else's. Based on your list it seems like there are at least some exceptions to this though. Maybe contacting Northadox would be a good idea for Different; I have a HUGE amount of respect for Northadox as an artist, a programmer and a human being, and honestly I really admire anyone who strives to be in some sense a kind of "Renaissance man" (as cringey as it is to use that particular term here, lol).
