Using Quake 3 for prototyping.

[Ganemi]

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!

[^misantropia^]

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.

[Ganemi]

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/++?

[obsidian]

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.

[Eraser]

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.

[Ouija]

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.