Bit of a tiny rant today. Two programmers leaving two projects because of work/uni commitments, both doing so when their projects are almost complete (literally a few more days - small flash games) and they complain about the industry not taking them seriously or not getting a chance. If people just realised that working together gets everyone further rather than each to their own, our world would be a lot happier. It's just really upsetting when other people have invested many hours of their lives with art/audio/design and then these people throw it away like the contributions mean nothing. Not only was our time wasted but their own as well (as far as portfolio work goes, I'm sure experience is a different story).* What would your perfect world entail? *Don't blast me I surrender!

So Is the project on hold then? or cancelled completely?
Id say putting aside a personal project for work/school is probably the right thing to do. I'm sure they'll come back when they get more free time. Especially with the projects being almost done?

Were they flash programmers? I happen to be one of those.

Well one project was simply a port of our IPHONE title to flash so I'm not broken hearted about that one too much. The other is called LEAP, the programmer was making it as a flash game, but they were apparently using Flex for their pipeline, I'm hoping it won't be too much of an issue for their replacement. My impression from the LEAP programmer is that they aren't coming back, they gave no indication that they would. So I'm trying to find a replacement, here's the post for that. As there's nothing left to do besides finishing off the programming the projects on hold till I find a replacement.

Welcome to the world of unpaid indie developement. Sucks even more when its so close to the end when people quit. Though you would think if it was really only a few more days that they would tough it out for the chance of a finished game to put in a portfolio.

Flex means they were using ActionScript. I dabbled with it a bit and anybody with some C++ or Java experience shouldn't find it hard to pick up. I'm sure you can get some people to finish the game.

I love game programming in Actionscript/Flash/Flex. I'm almost tempted to offer my help, although I really shouldnt take on any more unpaid work than I already have.

I checked out your website and didnt see anything about LEAP. Is there any way you can give me more info, maybe some screenshots, sample code, or see the game in action in its current state? Id like to guage for myself how much work is really left. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

Thanks stupid_programmer, I hope so too. I agree that with the end so close it's madness that they walked away.

AndreTheGiant, yeah our website needs a content overhaul, my apologies for that. I got your email address from your profile, I'll send you the design document and source code tomorrow (I don't have the source code on my system, it's with the designer). The 5 tasks listed in the Help Wanted post are all that remains to be done.

Quote: Original post by Dygash
If people just realised that working together gets everyone further rather than each to their own, our world would be a lot happier.

Hold up, didn't you just prove that's incorrect? People are inconsiderate and/or unreliable. In general, the more of them that work together the bigger of a mess things become.

Your desire isn't to have people realize that teamwork is good, it's to have a world where teamwork actually is good because... well because it doesn't have humans in it, probably.

Teamwork works best when an individual can do everything alone but gets assistance from others to be able to do it faster. Complete reliance is something to be avoided at all costs. Even then, the process will rapidly devolve into finding more people to cover up for the work the existing team isn't doing. Welcome to the truth about teamwork: It's a necessary evil.