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[MrQuiggles]

Hello all  ! I'm gonna be doing LD24 with a friend this weekend, and this time we're looking for something else to collaborate with after Saros failed on his end a few too many times. Problem is, nothing has that real-time collaboration like Saros. For the time being, we've been using version control, but that's kinda klunky for our purposes of making something in 72 hrs. What do you guys use? Something either standalone or a plugin to Eclipse would be preferable.

[Hedgehodg]

Well, to collaborate, I just use Team Viewer .

[John Sandoval]

just dropbox

[EdgeOfProphecy]

I've always just used version control for code.  SVN or GIT, don't matter to me.

For other assets, dropbox works well.

[Vithium]

My brother and I are using dropbox four our main project.  Works well for us anyways.  I do the programming so he doesnt touch any of that anyhoe and he does art so which we both touch so it works well for us.

[ChevyRay]

If you want a little more organized of an approach, Basecamp is great for collaborating and keeping track of stuff. And extremely simple to use. I've done several projects with it.

I always use Dropbox, though, no matter what. I'm broken, so version control just makes me want to kill myself most of the time.

EDIT: I didn't realize that Basecamp wasn't free aw. I was never the one to set it up, so I wasn't aware that it had a monthly cost. Dern.

[wg/funstorm]

And another +1 for Dropbox. I also like to use this little task list software which I set up on my webhost http://www.mytinytodo.net/demo/ It's super duper ultra simple but I like it better than more complicated alternatives because I find the more complicated, the less people want to use it. As the programmer I also use Mercurial/TortoiseHG for version control but just for myself. It's a bit of a pain sometimes, but those rare times when I screw something up being able to revert and compare previous file versions makes it all worthwhile.

Basecamp - wow $20 per month with no free option is really pricey! I was expecting a free version limited to 2-3 people at least. Has it always been that way?

[klembot]

We have a Mercurial repository on Dropbox that we push/pull to, and a separate folder on Dropbox as a working area (images/sounds that aren't ready to be plugged in, that kind of thing). It works great except when sometimes there are slight delays in Dropbox syncing -- only really an issue when we are working at the same time.

[Muz]

just dropbox

If you're writing code on the same file simultaneously, this can be hilarious.

Just version control; it takes only an hour to set up at worst. Get tortoiseSVN, a place to store it: all set.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

yeah basecamp costs money and there's a ton of free open source alternatives which are just as good if not better. Google it and marvel at the massive amount of choices you have.

The bigger issue is getting everyone on the team to use the team management programs effectively. 90% of the time only a portion of the team uses it.

[andrew-101]

Like its been said before, svn for code and dropbox for assets. We also used google docs for announcements, planning and chatting (although I would have preferred irc for chat, the google docs chat window is just too small).

Also, the idea of having a subversion repository on dropbox is pretty neat.

[Mattivc]

I have found https://trello.com/ to be hugely useful when collaborating on a project. And i use Dropbox with artist, and Git with other coders.