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Topic Starter	Topic: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Ganemi The Afflicted Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 563	Posted: 08-30-2011 01:33 AM                  Hello! I want to use Quake 3 to prototype a game I've been wanting to make for a while. It's actually relatively simple, and I actually have a ton of code from a number of mods as reference. Does anyone have a clue where I should look to find a capable programmer? Thanks!
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^misantropia^ Mentor Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 3958	Posted: 08-30-2011 08:09 AM                  Depends. If it's a for-pay project, you could try elance or rentacoder.com but you'll have to do some heavy filtering - lots of incompetents on those sites. For a free project, well... you'll have to win over people or pick up coding yourself.
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Ganemi The Afflicted Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 563	Posted: 08-31-2011 07:11 AM                  No one makes mods on their free time anymore, huh? : \ And here I was trying to fill a massive void in the shooter market. Can anyone recommend good books on programming C/++?
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obsidian I'm the dude! Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Posts: 12498	Posted: 08-31-2011 07:14 AM                  People still do it for free, but only if it shows promise. Take Eraser's Entity Plus mod, he just started working on it himself and posted a link to early tests and people naturally contribute to the project out of a common interest. _________________ GtkRadiant | Q3Map2 | Shader Manual
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Eraser Cool #9 Joined: 01 Dec 2000 Posts: 44136	Posted: 08-31-2011 12:08 PM                    Countless numbers of people still work on mods for the Source engine (Half-Life 2), UDK (Gears of War/Unreal Tournament 3 and many other games) and even the odd indy game like Minecraft. Its just cthat Q3 is very old and thus not a very popular development platform anymore.
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Ouija Grunt Joined: 16 Aug 2011 Posts: 55	Posted: 09-02-2011 05:30 PM                  If it's an SP game, you should consider not coding a thing and using E+ for a proof of concept proto, with little to no code modification. That's what I'm doing, with some extent of success.
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