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Dark Yoshi	Posted: Dec 1 2008, 08:46 PM
this is the end of an epic Group: Members Posts: 4742 Member No.: 122 Joined: 2-November 03 Status: (0d)	How are directors looked upon in fangames? I don't really have any programming or designing talent, but I do have some leadership, worldbuilding, and teamwork talents. It's just something I'd like to have done, like get a team together, meet with the level designers, engine programmers, and maybe music composers. -------------------- Yoshi Refs: By someone else By DarkYoshi By Julio By Ashura By Tri By Yak Human Refs: By Zash By Me By JSR Now in Classic, Plain, Cherry, Watermelon, Grape, and Strawberry.

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Posted: Dec 1 2008, 08:52 PM

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pretty much every "director" i've seen is the "make my game for me and give me all the credit" type

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Retriever II	Posted: Dec 1 2008, 09:23 PM
Catalyst Group: Members Posts: 18290 Member No.: 52 Joined: 13-October 03 Status: (0d)	The notion of a director is largely despised. --------------------

Razz	Posted: Dec 1 2008, 09:45 PM
Group: Members Posts: 6007 Member No.: 4259 Joined: 13-August 07 Status: (0d)	One mistake you never want to make when working with a dev team: never ever ever take things too seriously because when the director is having fun, your development team is having fun aswell which leads to equality, people actually getting along, and talented people hopefully teaching skills to the people who are less talented/don't have the same skill as they do which leads to a better development team that can create great games as far as I'm concerned, a leader can be total ** with basically everything, but as long as he has fun with what he's doing he's a great leader I wish I followed this rule while working on OoT2D, now I'm back to working solo damn I need to get that team back together again sometime -------------------- Allusion - [\|\|--------] 25% complete GridLocked - [\|\|\|\|------] 45% complete my blog**

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Posted: Dec 2 2008, 10:15 AM

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Yeah a director should atleast work on some aspects rather than planning.

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Posted: Dec 2 2008, 06:42 PM

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The Director should do more than Planning, as most Directors do. For example, they could test the Engine, help program the Engine, give feedback on the Music Designer's Compositions, etc.

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QUOTE (Xgoff @ Sep 10 2009 @ 06:11 PM)

did you try hello's engine

make sure to not ****ing change anything before using it!

Raccoon Sam	Posted: Dec 2 2008, 06:49 PM
You need to get off your high horse. Group: Members Posts: 9707 Member No.: 1422 Joined: 6-September 05 Status: (0d)	I dunno, there can be 'good' directors too, as in if they plan everything out. If someone has an incredible idea for a plot of a game and has everything planned out, from plot to characters, then I guess you would be entitled to ask for people to 'do the game for you'. I mean, if you lack the programming skill but can do everything else then yeah. But then again would that be 'directing' anymore? -------------------- read it yo

M. C. Productions	Posted: Dec 4 2008, 12:29 PM
Mario series' gals = #1! Group: Members Posts: 700 Member No.: 3100 Joined: 22-December 06 Status: (0d)	In terms of fangame projects? I'd rather not be "director" alone. To me, it's just not enough. Sure, it's the first step in trying to figure out how you want the game to be presented, but if you're not able to put in the time to put those plans into action development wise, others will sadly frown upon the person. I'm like: get the blueprint/script done first THEN do the necessary work to match it. That's all I have to say on my side of things.

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