Mentor And Apprentice

JPickard

That sounds a like a fun concept for a game, but that's not what I'm on about.

I was thinking that this generous community might be able to create a loose organization of Mentorships. What if us newbies could "apprentice" under the more experienced (ie: published) game creators and sous chefs in exchange for, well, what ever our skills are. Or in exchange for doing some of the less glamourous redundant work for their projects.

What made me think of this is that I would love to be able to have one talented, knowledgable person to bug with very specific questions about my first projects, and then when I "graduate" ie: publish a game, I become a mentor for the next newbie, etc.

Of course, at first the ratio of mentors to apprentices might be a little skewed, but over time, it would even out a bit.

Any way. What do you think? Could this work?

Edit: DIBS ON TSHIRTBOOTH!

old_kipper

To have a mentor thing I think it is a VERY BIG ask. Most of the people on here are indie and for them to commit to time to look after an 'up and coming' for free(?), beyond just putting help in on the forum is really pushing it.

Form a Skype group of those with a similar level, or different skills that can be exchanged. By having a group that all has similar levels of understanding, you will all want to know similar things, and when one in the group discovers a solution they can share it, or if need gets to the point where no answer can be found a single question can be asked in the forum, and the answer shared. By having a group with different skill sets then you all have things to offer each other. I have a few people I do skype with and we share a great deal, and exchange skills. It works well and I now feel I have friendships as a bonus.

only my opinion...

kipper

giacomopoppi

Yeah, I believe it would be a very big project too. I think new people using GameSalad prefer to watch videos on GShelper which explain all the basics and more.
However a video course would be cool. I mean a video explaining all about the editors, scenes, actors, attributes.... Just to get the really new guys a starting point for their game.

Giacomo

JPickard

Oh Well, it was a thought. I'll just let the forum be my mentor.

quantumsheep

JPickard said:
Oh Well, it was a thought. I'll just let the forum be my mentor.

We're all your mentors now... MUAHAHAHAA etc

To be fair, I think people do this sort of thing in private. If you know what i mean...

QS