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[Sowelu]

The title of this topic should give you an okay guess of what I'm after; reading any other coding project I've started should give you an even better guess.

I have a hard time staying focused and committed to a project.  I'd like to party up with someone else that has the same problem, is reasonably forum-active, and is willing to come after me and kick my ass (verbally) if I don't keep my work ethic plodding along at a low level at /least/.  Must also be willing to accept the same treatment from me.

What this means is:  I want someone I can swap private builds of a coding project with, on a /biweekly basis/.  No less frequently than every couple weeks, I can give you a recently updated version of my project, and you can give me a recently updated version of yours.  Other forumgoers can screw off; we have no obligation to actually release stuff, since it might be buggy and broken and not worth showing off to anyone.  Hell there might not even be something worth trading at all, but there had better be stories and complaints about how much trouble the compiler is giving us, or what progress we made on designs this week.

To clarify:  I don't want to work /with/ someone.  This is just an "I have a personal project, you have a personal project, we will both keep each other motivated and talking" thing.  Help fixing bugs is not guaranteed.  Bouncing creative ideas off each other, however, is encouraged.

There is probably more than one other person here with this problem, so maybe other people can organize here too~ <3

I'll probably be working in C#, so if you like C# as well, it might be a good fit.  As an added bonus, I've got four projects on the back burner and since I'll be coding for you instead of me, I'll let you pick which one I make.  Yeah, yeah, because I know you all care /so/ much.

I'm aiming for, oh, a six-month commitment.  If you think you might wimp out, or get too busy to keep producing, then seriously, just...don't.

[Biag]

I could commit through the beginning of September (~5 months), but after that I have to go to college or something like that, so I have absolutely no idea how much time I would have for private projects. If that's okay with you, I'd love to buddy up.

[mainiac]

I might be interested.  I've wanted to write a roguelike in C++ and have the free time to do so but not the motivation.

[Lord Dullard]

I would actually be interested in this as well, although I don't know how frequently I could share builds and stuff.

I know you said you want more of a one-on-one interaction, which I can understand. Would you possibly be interested in setting up a small code-chat group on the side? Maybe an IRC for several us to lounge around, yell at each other for being lazy, and be creative/shoot the breeze on?

[DrPoo]

OP described my situation perfectly. Ameripain died from poor motivation

[Sowelu]

I've partnered up with Biag and work begins tonight.  Other people:  Also get to work!  Go talk to each other, I /do/ want to hear about your projects too. 

I've written myself a coding plan with seven steps (and some sub-steps) that will get me where I want to go in somewhere around 7-14 weeks.  Specifically, I will have multiple players connecting to an online server, walking around a starship in first person, with consoles that they can sit down at and fiddle with.  It's no 0x10^c, but it's a pretty good distance towards where I want to go.

As for chat groups...Me personally, I never have time for IRC and I kinda find it distracting.  But!  I'd be happy to banter back and forth with the lot of you in this thread, as a secondary kind of thing.

[Microcline]

As for chat groups...Me personally, I never have time for IRC and I kinda find it distracting.  But!  I'd be happy to banter back and forth with the lot of you in this thread, as a secondary kind of thing.

You could always start a general thread in Creative Projects for coding projects (or just a game development general thread, as we all know what "personal coding project" is a euphemism for 90% of the time and I have a sneaking suspicion that a good number of forum members have at some point tried their hand at it).  The idea would be that seeing posts of screenshots and progress and the desire to make something post-able would provide motivation.  There'd be less overall pressure than a thread devoted to a single game or developer, which might be more appropriate once there's an alpha that people would play on it's own merits, like the Other Games threads for Towns and Cogmind.