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[Geeze]

Discuss.
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=27601.0

[vinheim3]

Awesome , was just about to make a post for this. This is how I would've laid it down:

1. Everyone interested posts in a thread saying which languages/tools? they're fluent in, or what art/music style they use.
2. People are grouped evenly
3. Using group chat, some kind of agreement is made about who is most fit for managing different parts like coding, graphics, music. These guys communicate on progress. I don't think projects would need a lead manager/director
4. A poll is taken for what genre it should be.
4. A design doc is filled out (something like this: Design Doc.) Everyone contributes to a part and people managing compile it and come up with a general consensus on what the final thing looks like. If someone's idea is taken off the final doc, they write about why they want it in and then the same people who compiled it see what they can do, if they could find a way to fit it in or not have it in.
5. Small parts are done at a time.
6. Weekly checks to see if everything fits together.
7. When game is finished, everyone adds their own bit of polish or charm.
8. Game is tested by TIG forum people
9. Make mad monies

I haven't been part of a development team, so I'm sure there are flaws here and there and space for suggestions

[moi]

If you make a TIG project, choose something realistically doable, not some sort of huge encyclopedic game that will never get finished.

[vinheim3]

I think a good system is that the first projects are something a 1-man or 3-man team could easily do, something simple like a typical NES/SNES game. This'll get us comfortable as groups and allow us to know what's realistic for a next project

[moi]

I think a good system is that the first projects are something a 1-man or 3-man team could easily do, something simple like a typical NES/SNES game. This'll get us comfortable as groups and allow us to know what's realistic for a next project

That's the problem, a "typical NES/SNES game" is still a lot of work, certainly not what "a 1-man or 3-man team could easily do".
If you want such a game, it should be limited to something like a few levels, not a full game

[vinheim3]

Yeah that was a bad example, my point was that something easily manageable, something that would take each person a little work each, and then we build up the more comfortable we get fixing problems we've had on smaller projects

[Geeze]

I think a good system is that the first projects are something a 1-man or 3-man team could easily do, something simple like a typical NES/SNES game. This'll get us comfortable as groups and allow us to know what's realistic for a next project

That's the problem, a "typical NES/SNES game" is still a lot of work, certainly not what "a 1-man or 3-man team could easily do".
If you want such a game, it should be limited to something like a few levels, not a full game

Ah so true. I'd like it to be more like series of 1-2 month community projects that are doable. That way we might be able to keep people in for the whole duration. I'll let this poll to be open for some time, let's say for 4-5 days, and if there's enough interest we could actually kick it off.

Awesome , was just about to make a post for this. This is how I would've laid it down:

1. Everyone interested posts in a thread saying which languages/tools? they're fluent in, or what art/music style they use.
2. People are grouped evenly
3. Using group chat, some kind of agreement is made about who is most fit for managing different parts like coding, graphics, music. These guys communicate on progress. I don't think projects would need a lead manager/director
4. A poll is taken for what genre it should be.
4. A design doc is filled out (something like this: Design Doc.) Everyone contributes to a part and people managing compile it and come up with a general consensus on what the final thing looks like. If someone's idea is taken off the final doc, they write about why they want it in and then the same people who compiled it see what they can do, if they could find a way to fit it in or not have it in.
5. Small parts are done at a time.
6. Weekly checks to see if everything fits together.
7. When game is finished, everyone adds their own bit of polish or charm.
8. Game is tested by TIG forum people
9. Make mad monies

I haven't been part of a development team, so I'm sure there are flaws here and there and space for suggestions

I'd replace the poll on genres with game "pitches", but othervice this structure seems reasonable.

[Hedgehodg]

What projects have been attempted before in TIG community? Have *any* of them succeed?

[Evan McClane]

Cornelius says: "No"

We need another community comic.

[seagaia]

a game about being the idea guy

[Lynx]

Make everyone who wants to be "the idea guy" face off in a battle royale!  Example contests could be best Cave Story speed run completion time (video required), a Civilization multiplayer game, and a Call of Duty tournament.

We get entertained no matter who wins even before they get to start working on a game.  Win-win, IMO!

[baconman]

I challenge all proposing "idea guys" to Sonic Generations speedruns/Online Mode. BRING IT, BITCHES. :D

(/regardless of relevance, even)

And it IS true, mini-projects have been successfully collaborated, just not a full-fledged gamedev one. Personally, I'd kinda want to see some of this gung-ho attitude aimed at helping complete Indie Brawl too; but admittedly, it's a bit beyond my specs (well, the screen res, anyways).

We'd also have to decide on definitive art style/color schemes, music, lots of little details like that.

Maybe we should pitch some ideas around the collabs/Unpaid Work subforum, just to take note of hits and misses. Perhaps even consider putting our in-progress-but-full-of-difficulties projects out there...