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Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:33 am
by 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!
Re: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:09 pm
by ^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.
Re: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:11 pm
by 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/++?
Re: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:14 pm
by 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.
Re: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:08 pm
by 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.
Re: Using Quake 3 for prototyping.
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:30 am
by 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.