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samurai768 wrote:

Wow. That's great xD I take the time to make this and no one reads it    It seems like they we're all replying the lady gaga thread xD

Mmmmhhmmm. We're giving you the silent treatment..................
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Oh no....I talked. (facepalm)   

Last edited by brinkbrink (2010-11-11 20:53:59)

yeah. we had a good run in the olympics, a few people who could get on at (relativeley) the same time, everyone did their job, and we got things done. just imagine what we'd do without the time limit...
Personally though, I'd rather have a few, experienced scratchers, in the same time zone, (+/- 3 from yours) Preferably local (so you could plan at school, meet IRL, etc.) than hava a lot of inexperienced workers who aren't as dedicated to the goal or are in a time difference. Especially in the olympics, you can't make one post and wait 1/2 hour for them to reply, you'd never get anything done.

Oh snap. I just posted a thread that looks like this but less good.

You forgot S65's group reason. If there are too many people in a group with huge egos and conflicting ideas, they fight and don't accomplish anything, or they take too long

A good number for people in a big collab would be 4-6, but 2-man teams have been the best

I've never really gotten into collabs much, usually because they fail. I think 1,3,4, and 12three's reason make the most sense. Most companies usually have enough ideas. I have a paper with 20+ project ideas, so more people should be able to come up with enough ideas. That may just be me though.

Very well crafted and succinct. We're really interested in learning about collabs, so it's interesting to read this post.

But it begs the question: What makes the successful collabs successful? Someone should theorize that too!

Lightnin wrote:

Very well crafted and succinct. We're really interested in learning about collabs, so it's interesting to read this post.

But it begs the question: What makes the successful collabs successful? Someone should theorize that too!

actually the only collab ive seen that worked was the catbot one
dunno how they managed that but it turned out pretty cool

companies usually never produce projects or they make a few but not as a team

:bump:

juststickman wrote:

1. People keeping interested
2. People being able to contact each other
3. People getting along (no constant arguments)
4. A variety of talents (everyone being good at the same thing is a bit boring...)
Err, that's it for now.

Sounds like the normal world. Seems like something could be done to help problems 2 & 4 at least (in terms of helping people connect).

sanddude wrote:

Awesome! Maybe this should be stickies in the collaboration thread.

Good idea! Well, at least we should put it in the collab forum, perhaps stickies later?

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

Let's apply this to my company.

samurai768 wrote:

1. Not enough members, or very lazy members.
We have at least 20 active members, working in groups
2. Not enough ideas, or same old ideas that are changed abit that seem lame.
We have a nice comfortable website with our discussion forums on it, that are pretty active.
3. Too many games to work on, and members are overwhelmed.
We have one game that we've all decided to work on.
4. We're unnoticed! We barely get a couple views, and most of them are from us.
Our thread in the Collaborations forum has 17 pages and counting.

note that pages isn't important if you get lots of posts from your members.

mathematics wrote:

I think whether the members are real-life friends is also important.

WEll, you can still be a good company if you aren't friends in real life.