I am doing a project that requires mentor guidance. I am making a game. It will be my first game. I have experience in modeling. I just don't know how to put it all into a game. If anyone could be my mentor it would be great.

i have a mentor. its called the beginners forum/game programming forum :)

honestly, i read up on as much as possible and began to put it all together myself by following tutorials and whenever i run into a snag, whether its a logic problem or i just dont know the best path to take to solve a problem, i post it in there. everyone there is extremely helpful provide you are professional about your problem. dont run in there screaming 'D00DZ! THESE UBER PROBLEMS IS FUX0RING ME UP!'

even in the beginner forum, there is a sticky to check out. its about how to 'go about starting game development'. GOODLUCK!

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typo :P

Thanks for the advise, but I need to have an actual mentor for a school project. I know I could get by on my own by doing things like what you suggested,tont, but they insist we have someone that we can have direct question and answer. I looked for someone around where I live, but failed. They said i could use email, so I went to the Internet.

If the teacher said that finding someone you can ask questions through email is sufficient, then posting here is not much different other than you're not just asking one person, you're asking several. There's plenty people here that'll give you direction, encouragement, and the occasional smack upside the head when you need it. Finding one person that'll take a specific interest in you I imagine would be quite difficult to do (programmers get pretty busy and focused on thier own projects) and could take an unnecissarily big chunk of time outta your life that you could've otherwise spent working on your own project.

Get your advice here and feel free to give special thanks to whoever helped in your credits or about screen or intruction manual. If the teacher gives insists then pick the one person that was the most helpful and declair them your mentor for the project. But there's nothing that says you need to get continuous help from the same person all the time.

Good luck.

I need my mentor to sign off that they were my mentor for the project. I only need 6 contacts with my mentor. So it wouln't be so time consuming for Him/Her. I just need to ask 6 questions and then recieve 6 answers at 6 different times. I am already experienced in 3d modeling I just need help putting them into a game. I am wanting to make an rpfps (role playing first person shooter) It's mech based and switches between 3rd and 1st person view. I am planning on running it on quake III. I'll expain more to whoever accepts. I know this isn't a very proffesional way to go about this, but I am desperate.

Just ask them on here. Use this as your emails. Im sure your teacher wont double check your source. Its better to get collective answer anyways from everyone. and on that note, i find it rather odd that your teacher is sending you somewhere else to 'teach' you. the teacher, in my eyes, is basically saying "go bother someone to learn because i dont want you to ask me". game developers arent exactly falling out of the sky. especially if you dont live in a 'high tech' area.

If the specific course-requirements ask for a named mentor, don't try to short-change it using an online forum. A mentor SHOULD be doing a lot more than just 'answering some questions'; they should be able to guide your path in the right direction, help you when you're stuck, and give you overall feedback on your progress.

Not to mention; you REALLY don't want to start your academic career by faking your mentor-qualifications :) Next thing you know, you end up like this guy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4597416.stm.

I'd recommend looking in the 'help wanted' section, though.

Allan

This kind of goes with no asking help with your homework :-p

Um... this is clearly some sort of high school senior project or something. Having had to do one for my senior year, I found my mentor on the forums.

Stop leading this guy around in circles, he knows what he needs for his project he hasn't asked for someone to write his game for him. He's merely looking for a mentor at this point so he can move on to the next stage of his project.

These projects require documented meetings with a mentor and there is no "faking" it. What I did was to gain a mentor on the helpwanted forums and then exchange information such as name, email, and IM screen names. I got the mentor to send my teacher an email instead of a signature and she was more than understanding.

@44cll: The Help Wanted section is where I found my mentor when I was going through this process. I would offer you my expertise but I don't really consider myself qualified outside of 2D Side-scroller / Top-Down type games. Feel free to pop many any questions you might come across though, and I'll do my best to answer.

~toXic

Seems a pretty crummy kind of school that requires you to find a complete stranger on the internet for you to pass... How would your teacher know that your mentor isn't a 13-year-old talking out of their ass, when presumably they want a professional?

But anyway, do you have it written down exactly what a mentor should do? It seems just answering direct questions isn't mentoring; does your course have a formal 'mentor specification'?