Re: Potential new IF author needs advice


15 Nov 1995 01:00:50 GMT

Odonnell (s7m6) wrote:

> What's so bad about having someone else write the code for you?
> Unless you actually want to make money with your game, you and almost any
> programmer you can find (who isn't so wrapped up in what he's currently
> doing that he fails to notice the existence of an outside world. .) can
> get many hours of frustrating joy out of co-creating the game.

There's a difference between *co-creating* a game with a programmer
and saying "Hey, write this thing up for me." Coding is a hell of
a lot of work.

> The saying "if you want something done right, you have to do it
> yourself" doesn't really apply here. As long as you're willing to take the
> word of your programmer, and function within the limitations he says exist,
> then you can have a game of your very own more quickly than you think.

But it's not really just yours, then, is it?

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