Hi everyone.
I've been into GD's Hobbyist Projects adverts for a while, I got into some teams and projects, but all went nowhere. I was wondering, do any of you guys have success stories/shipped a game/built a good team/etc with GD's hobbyist ads?

The classifieds section is still very new, but prior to that we used a simple forum called "Help Wanted", and there were/are certainly some successful projects from there.

Reactor Interactive's Sector 13 was a very successful demo and landed the founding team members industry jobs -- apparently they've recently decided to go back and make a complete Sector 13 game!

FIFE (The Flexible Isometric Fallout-like Engine) is an on-going open source project, initially to produce an engine compatible with the original fallout assets, but which has since expanded to a more general isometric engine.

Hero of Allacrost is also an on-going open source project, to produce an old-school styled RPG. The team have had a number of releases.

TREBL2 is a fun little rhythm game that advertised in HW.

Jooleem is a fun little open source puzzle/arcade/matching game.

...and I'm sure there have been others, but specific examples escape me just at this moment, perhaps some other members may remember.

The classifieds section is still very new, but prior to that we used a simple forum called "Help Wanted", and there were/are certainly some successful projects from there.

Whoa, that's already more than I expected . And yes, I've been there when it was just a forum. I like the new section more, the lack of bumping is great.

The new classifieds still needs more work, but I think we're moving in the right direction to improve upon the old forum-based system.

We're looking at some UI improvements (particularly when submitting ads) and providing some good documentation, but any other suggestions are also welcome!