Be apart of the early phase of a company being made

[SophistryGames]

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Just leave it and when you’re ready, start a new topic, but position it as being for a particular project rather than a position at a new company.

Some more advice:

1. Be detailed in your description of the game. You don’t need to post a complete game design document or a 20-page detailed story, but you need to give people a good synopsis of what the game is and how it will play and why people should be excited about it. The reason for this is that you’re competing with a lot of other teams posting on these forums and you need something to make your project jump out and entice people to get in touch.

2. Be clear about what you and your cousin will be doing. Will you be programming, modelling, level design and so on. For an unpaid project you will almost certainly need to be hands-on with development because you’re going to find it hard to recruit people who are dedicated to the project, so you will need to fill in the gaps yourself, and also because people joining you will expect you to be doing stuff as well. Also expect a high turnover of staff as people join and leave due to real life stuff, so make sure you have the skills to cover for them and the project doesn’t grind to a halt.

3. Have something to show. Concept art or, better yet, some early footage of your game in action. This kind of ties in with my point above that people will expect you to be hands-on, and they will also want some reassurance that this project is going somewhere and that the people designing it know what they’re doing. You want to avoid a situation where someone joins the team and then has to sit around waiting for someone else to join because they need X to be done before they can start. If you can have concept art and your art direction ready, for example, it means that your artists can get started and don’t have to wait for someone else to do it.

4. Don’t rush things. You said above that your original post was written in a rush while you were doing something else. If game design is your dream, you shouldn’t be treating it like a side-thought, as it will ultimately undermine you. It makes it look like this isn’t a priority for you, and people won’t take you seriously. You see this kind of thing on Steam Greenlight all the time where people put together such shoddy trailers that you have to question whether they actually care about their own project. Why should I spend hours working on a project if the project lead can’t be bothered to spend more than 10 minutes working on a write-up and advertisement for the game?

Again, good luck.

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