GameDevelopmentMagazine.com

To work Pro Bond is one of the options mÃs viable to obtain experience in diseño of games (and other disciplines) nevertheless can become in a nightmare if nontakings the suitable measures. Pro Bond means to work of voluntary way for the público good, without obtaining one remuneracià ³ n econà ³ mica. The best example of the industry of games occurs in the field of mods, the independent scene or projects initiated by fanÃticos to revivir some of his clÃsicos favorites.

With one metodologÃa that implies to land a viable project (realistic), to calendarizar it and to form a work party with responsible people and it jeopardize, to work by love to the art can be única experience. Lamentably mayorÃa of equipment fails in one or several points reason why the projects become ether to us, fantasiosos and some even generate polémica when using intellectual properties without due autorizacià ³ n:

ÂQué to do then so that your project is not in the limb by the centuries of the centuries? There am aquà seven recommendations.

1. Honest Sé

This section not only applies generally for the work but for your life; you must be honest with same you and demÃs people. The honest being implies in being conscious of qué you know to do and cuÃnto you take in realizing it, this you ayudarÃto define a viable project, to execute it in its times and asà to avoid hours of anguish being tried to solve something that you do not know.

One prÃctica habitual meaning that you so know everything to it with participating in a project, the problem is that by mÃs that you know to use Google and you have espÃritu of self-teaching estarÃs losing your time and the one of demÃs integral. It remembers that the fact of not gaining a cent does not imply that you can play with time of demÃs people.

2. The project is mÃ

This phrase aprendà in the final project of the University and gives much weight him to the first point. The project is mÃnear s as far as your tastes and abilities, también as far as your times and expenses. If estÃs by involucrarte in diseño of an accidental game for Facebook and you live it to you criticizing to your friendly to play Wars Mafia is not perhaps good for losing 3 months of your life diseñÃndolo.

If there is a vacancy in the equipment of mods for a Conceptual Artist and you draw of carajo, it is not worth the pain, by mÃs that the project has to do with Aliens and you are fan of H.R Giger.

3. It is hour to use an agenda

The agendas are not exclusive of sutties with life monà ³ tona and blue shirt; an agenda is the best friend than you can have when you become to the world of multi-task. To work in a project Pro Bond implies that you have another activity that remunerates econà micamente to you ³, perhaps estés studying or of plane you have a fianc2ee who absorbs to you (the time) like leech.

In order to take one double or triple successful life it is necessary that you organize your times, not you fÃes of the memory because you can lose center in some of the activities to be thinking about which you must make the rest of dÃa. It points your slopes, tà ³ mate té and relÃjate.

4. PrepÃ

The life is not simple and if outside darÃa egg, asà that prepÃrate to sacrifice some things if you embark in a project of this nature. It is important to have desire to make the things and many people even say to you that if you want, you can; what they do not say to you she is that everything is not to want and to become jackets mental, is necessary to materialize all those ideas and for that you need to dedicate part of your time. There am aquà the point where to count on an agenda he becomes vital, you must make a balance of the time that you spend in your activities and to machar the daily hours or weekly that dedicarÃs to the project.

To make sacrifices does not mean that you are going away to be enclaustrado in your house and to avoid each invitacià ³ n of your friendly to fortify themselves or to see one pelÃcula. Everything is not work and if it do not give time you for divertirte, you are going to finish operating to means project, the joke aquà is to know how to balance it. Diseñar games does not imply that all your life you must be with a control in the hand; great part of inspiracià ³ n comes from the nature and the human relations, asà that fits your time in such a way that you do not neglect your life.

5. ³ n keeps your ego in cajÃ

If your ego is as great as the teats of safe Sabrina you ganarÃs mÃmentioned s of one on the part of your compañeros of equipment. If you decide to only work because you have the complex of misunderstood artist or because nobody is mÃresponsible s that tú, equally tendrÃs that guardarte that ego. It remembers that diseñas your game for a público in especÃfico and algún moment tendrÃs that to put to the test it; the arrogance is the worse enemy of the diseñador and Pro is pronounced frequently in projects Bond with the excuse of how I do not gain silver, I do what it comes to me in desire.

By último it remembers that a high ego can bring about blindness and disfuncià eréctil ³ n.

6. It avoids the projects based on other games or pelÃculas

He is común that in the heat of peloteo somebody throws the tÃpica idea “to do remake of such game or pelÃcula”. It is suddenly that all in the equipment are fanÃticos of Lord of The Rings or Final Fantasy and is put to work in the soñado game. 99% of these projects are located in the unreal plane, take años from development because the equipment tries to make it perfect and to end of accounts nica of a pair of lawyers crumbles by the call telefà ³ who say you have 72 hours to eliminate the content or we will put a kilométrica demand to you. There is nothing frustrates mÃs that to see años of work thrown the sweepings because of bad decisià ³ n at the beginning of the project.

7. Nonafternoons too much in a project

If you are nascent and you want to diseñar games the worse thing than you can do is embarcarte in projects that last an eternity. You only need foguearte with pequeños projects that you can execute in terms nonmajors to one or two months, or or with a reduced group collaborator. If you do not have idea by dà ³ nde to begin, are good references to realize prototypes in time record in Gamasutra. The best thing of this is than tendrÃs many projects to undergo different proposals from jugabilidad and therefore ganarÃs experience with the passage of the months.

If you begin in diseño of levels it generates one or two quarters to prove scripts; boceta pequeños levels of multiplayer apegÃndote to a jugabilidad clÃsica of deathmatch, does not matter that you use the textures that come by default with the game publisher. The valuable thing of the process is that you become familiar with mecÃnica of diseño and you finish the map.

In both cases tendrÃs many variants that to show in your portfolio at the time of requesting work. In the case of diseño of levels it has major weight to show the form to approach different problems from jugabilidad that to offer a gigantic map that you tomà ³ 3 años in realizing (and it only includes a game modality).

By último…

Once contemplated these points it is hour to begin to work. If you live in paÃs of Latinoamérica that is worth a mother to him diseño of games (as México) you are not scared to share your work with the rest of the world, or to look for collaborators who speak another language.

NecesitarÃs head frÃa and much confidence in your work to leave ahead in a project of this type. The principle is mÃdifÃcil s but remembers that the éxito comes from cagar it without losing the enthusiasm time and time again.