Are any of you interest in being part of a coding sub-community of GGG+
One of the things I enjoy most about G+ and the communities that formed around Elite Dangerous has been the gathering of personalities that seem to share a lot of hobbies and interests. Many walks of life and philosophies interested in overlapping topics like music, tv, movies, humour, food, wine, etc.
One of my hobbies has always been coding. The past is littered with 100's of started projects and abandoned code. Clearly, I haven't been an 'completionist' or 'achievement unlocked' kind of person in this regard. I guess in my case, I was not able to sustain that level of drive and enthusiasm for most of those pet projects.
With Unity, I've found a system that allows me to express my gameplay idle thoughts as something tangible and I've started watching tutorials and putting objects on the screen and animating them. The results have been quick and rewarding and I'm starting to believe I could actually make a game that I would play. Probably not as long as it will take for me to code, but that's my attention span at work. I've heard random posts from some of you and I gather I'm not the only one.
I was wondering if we shouldn't carve out a small piece of the Internet to do this together. It sounds like a number of you might be a bit further along than me. Maybe we can encourage, teach and support each other on this journey? Maybe do some play-testing and constructive criticism along the way?
If so, what would be good way to do this? Discord, Hangouts, G+ sub-group or new one?
I'm sure we can also look into our unfinished projects and see what else we can resurrrect and finish with the help of similarly minded folk.
For example: I have made a plugin for my Philips Hue lamp to change colours based on the Elite Dangerous journal. All it does is turn red when you jump out of supercruise near a station and turns green when you get docking permission. It needs a plugin UI and some customisation/settings gui stuff, but it's not a priority for me.
What I envisage is we build up a library of resources /recommended tutorials /royalty free art & audio /code for various game engines and languages and maybe people can offer non-coding participation like 3d modelling, art, etc?
This post is going on too long, dying to hear your comments.
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I think a hangout group could be good to start and gather interest?
Niall Crowley
So, count me in if you'll have me.
Would be happy to be included in discussions about this, but for the time being, I don't see myself of picking this up again.
youtube.com - LateTide on StormTorn
The title of the game was StormTorn, and actually the oldest (still hex based) video shows the most about what the game would have been about. - Locating islands, trading, exploration, military or piracy, etc.
Seriously though. I approached this project as a means to learn Unity more than have a game at the end. Whether the game is finished or not, the learning process has been worth it so far.
What is your plan, 2D or 3D? Actually, what is your plan? :)
Today is the day the game idea I originally stole got ripped off.
The sphere, the ground and the camera are the only objects in the editor. The rest is made in c# when the level begins...
edit: Controls are left, right, jump currently.
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Something with channels would make sense, I believe
I'm gonna go get my coat...
We can of course go with something else. Keep those suggestions coming in :)
Do we really have to go down that silly route? I've never met a sane woman who felt excluded by the word "guys".
I would not feel welcome joining a Good Gals Coding group and I'm sure there will be some women who would hesitate to join a 'Guys' group (unless they already knew how 'Good' we are!).
I like the PPP alliteration
Other words with 'P' either with People Programming or Programmers:
Polite
People
principled
practical
positive
playful
pleasant
passionate
So, we could have Practical Playful Programmers or some such.
Still struggling to find anything better than Good Guys Coding though :-)
Another suggestion would be naming the group after the project, assuming we'll focus on that one thing and don't want to be a general coding platform.
Finally, here's one that's a notch more objectional than Good Guys Coding:
Bros Bumping Bits
;-)
Given a choice between GGC and BBB ... !
I'd like to see it more open to general coding than on a specific project.
All, I need to unpin this post soon for the next one (exciting news) so can I get everyone's suggestions for a group name dedicated to anyone interested in creating a game whatever skills you have to contribute.
If there are no suggestions by this time tomorrow I will decide. Cheers!