Finding programmers for rev shares
Heyo all, hope you're doing well!
I am looking for general advice, or direct messages from people who this applies to, on places to find people to collaborate with.
I am a designer first and foremost and a graduate from a game design course, but I do use UE blueprints to build prototypes and test concepts. I have a reached a point now where my ability to design and produce documentation exceeds my skills in UE and I'm hitting points of stagnation when working alone.
Im aware that retraining in computer science or spending years studying c++ is an option, but it's not my goal to be a programmer, I'd much rather continue to develop my design skills.
I'm not rich, I work a full time job far detached from the games industry and I certainly can't afford to just hire someone to work alongside me, so where would you advise I search for the like minded, passionate people who will work on a rev share basis or work towards their own portfolio getting padded out the same way I am?
I have joined a studio recently (unpaid position as the studio doesn't have any breadwinning titles released) who's first project was a solo developed title built in Unity and released on Steam, and due to the structuring of the base code they had built, they weren't able to implement any new features that I design and I was essentially just balancing existing mechanics.
We've agreed to work on our next title in UE with myself as lead designer, the current studio head is learning c++ and I can be involved with programming, working on the higher level interactions but my knowledge of the low level, core systems is slim to none.
If anyone has any suggestions on places to post or if you yourself are a talented programmer looking for people to collaborate with please let me know, any and all info is much appreciated.
Thanks for reading and I hope you're having a great time with whatever it is you might be up to!