Hi,
“Got Skills” Thread is not working and full of ****. It is a real chor to sort amongst the kids with their “[Uber Paid] I am have best game idea and I will get money on kickstarter! :: Looking for C++ Programmer and 3D Artists”.
I’ve almost begun to see the “Got Skills” thread as kind of a false flag, to ward of the junk and that the real stuff is in the work in progress section.
The reason I think this is really important now more than ever, is because in previous versions of the unreal engine it was mostly just about finding the right people and plugging them into the engine, with the editor itself not really being a place of creativity outside of level designers. Now with blueprints UE4 and the market place, the UE4 editor can acutally be a primary place of creativity instead of just a hub where things are plugged in.
What would be really nice is if there was some sort of much more congruent and easy way to sort through projects, a kind of project directory where people can list their project, whether it needs people or not. The forum itself could contain a kind of spot light banner and could highlight important projects.
Conceptart.org was really successful, it merely had a thread labeled “Sketchbooks” and people post pictures from their sketchbooks in their and received comments and criticism from the community, it really changed the whole way concept art works, so many people got so much better.
When I’m working on various things I may or may not finish, I’d sometimes like to share those things with the community but feel afraid of putting them in the WIP section, a kind of sketchbook setup would make me feel more comfortable on sharing my experience with the engine as a whole instead of trying to section off my experiences into little pieces and threads.
The Unreal Engine community is pretty small, it only takes a few weeks to get familiar with who’s who and all the names, I really think an upgrade to the forum and the tools the community has would go a long way, after all Epic is already doing so much with their twitch broadcasts.
I’m sure I will have more to say about this latter, I’m not trying to suggest that this forum compete with polycount or cgtalk or something like that.