Sonic Continuum Project (Looking for help)

Using official tools to make a program for the 3DS requires signing that agreement with Nintendo. For all intents and purposes, you're agreeing to only distribute your projects through the eShop and through Nintendo, meaning that anything you make has to be approved by them in the end, and you're hit with all of the issues you would have if you were trying to commercially sell your game since you don't have the rights to anything having to do with Sonic.

Homebrew programs for the 3DS are generally made using an UNOFFICIAL development kit and programming that was created by homebrew developers. This means that Unity is not an option for you. You would have to find each function and port everything manually using the function calls that the homebrew developers have come up with. The tools are all there, but you'll have to put a lot more work into it all on your end.

Personally, I was rather surprised when you first said that you were doing a 3DS port of your project. I figured that if it was any good, it would be the first really good high-quality homebrew game for the 3DS, or at least the first one that I've seen personally. Everything else that I've seen is some sort of program to add functionality (use your 3DS as a PC controller, stream to your 3DS, etc.) or some sort of emulator.

 

For the record, Unity3D is super heavy as it is even on desktop, let alone on mobile, especially an old console like 3DS.
I cant imagine how can you run anything made with Unity on 3DS.

 

You don't ask for people to do work for you or join your project.

What you do is you post screenshots of what you've done and people get wowed, and private message you that they want to join.
Or you google how to program and learn to program/use a game maker engine, and *then* make the screenshots that you post.

That being said, please don't post garbage. A palette swap of Green Hill Zone is not going to cut it.

 

Finally, someone answers this question. I was wondering the same every time I saw a thread closing for this reason. I understand there are reasons to not have recruitment or "do this for me" topics, but no one telling which is the standard alternative was killing me.

Anyway, that method itself looks a bit unreliable, it's hard for a single person to do enough work to show enought to attract collaborators unless they have direct relationships with the one showing their projects. I don't have the chance to start my fan game projects right now, but I was thinking on making a full game with reused music as some sort of a curriculum and use that to ask for help through PMs for more serious and professional projects that would come later. Not that I like to do things that way, but I couldn't figure a good way to form a dev team with people I know so little about. I thought other people used discord or something like that to know other people better and get some reference on who to recruit or whose project to join. I think there should be a begginer's q&a topic for this matter or anything similar if that's possible within the forum rules.

P.D.: I'd never post screenshots about a chamaleonic green hill zone, don't worry about that.

Edit: Forgot to actually talk about the game:

I've watched that video and, while physics look quite functional, I really hope nothing of that level art and design will be in the actual final game; I wouldn't say this if only the test zone was there, because it's supposed to be a test zone, after all, but the other zone works the same way. Also, if you're gonna make just a classic style 2D game, I'd try something strictly 2D, not Unity. I plan to make mine on C++.

 

Since you ninja'ed my edit, please check that. I supposed the art is just a placeholder, but scaling it or using it in a way that clashes with the original use for it (that suddenly cut vine ramp from mushroom hill, for example) doesn't look good. I'm not sure if the green hill garbage was directly referring to your work or it was just an example of what not to post, but, sorry to say you this, that video is still a bad presentation card.

 

Not sure if a moderator is necessary for the title thing or you may do that yourself.

I'm not telling you to show a demo with no art, but I'm sure you can draw some basic shapes with a simple design, that's a part of my project I've already been doing and I'm not a pixel artist or have any professional expertise with general art. I have two sets, one that works as base level art and other one simpler than the first to show the active layer and solidities. It just takes a lot more time when you don't know how to do that.

Also, I wasn't defending the other guy, I was just giving my own impressions. I mentioned the green hill garbage thing because I understood that in a different way than you, that's all.

As I said earlier, I don't get how does people get a team for their work in the first place, and I understand your frustration about having to do so much alone before having any chance of recruitment. Anyway, that's the way it works in this forum, and seems it also does in SFGHQ (Sonic fan games headquarters) site, which could seem the other obvious place to try recruiting. I'd suggest to blend better in the community for some time before trying anything else, and work on your demo meanwhile even on the areas you're not skilled on.

 

Yeah I was not referring to the quality of your work. I didn't even notice that the links lead to something until after I posted. I apologize for the misunderstanding.

That is a mystery to me as well. As a programmer I cant find an artist that would put more than 30 minutes of drawing on an odd weekend. Even those of 'deviantart quality'. I've tried so many times.
As for why we don't ask for team members here, its simply that nobody would even try to join. There are 2 scenarios that are quite common

a) "I have this great ideatext for a game, I want to just talk while everyone else programs, draws, and does the music. I have no experience making games and nothing to show for it."
However good an idea(really everybody is talking just about the game summary) is depends on the actual execution. 2D Sequel to Sonic & Knuckles sounds like a win win right? Sonic 4, Chaotix and Sonic Advance had bigger budgets, staff and time, but didn't come near close to Mania.

b) Even projects that are appealing and highly praised have a hard time even having someone apply for them, regardless of skill level.
Case in point AXSX:" I have this awesome game, but I cannot program and I need just a couple of bug fixes". Result: 0 programmers called the past 5 years

tl.dr. we are not trying to prevent you from recruiting the artists you want/need/deserve. There simply aren't any free artists on these forums looking for a project to join to begin with.

 

Well, I know it's probably a lot harder to find people for projects these days than before, and seems like it was already hard even then, but a single person filling all the roles is too much asking for, moreso if it's not a professional project. It will take me ages to have what I want to show as a proof of my capabilities. I hope it will get easier after achieving that, specially considering how many projects I have and how big are some of them (I plan them in sets so I can give them plot consistency and know everything I'll have to add to the engine in advance). I also get that sometimes no one will join because they want to work on a project of their own, and not on someone else's, but, personally, I need to save every level trope I had in mind for my projects or I could find myself in trouble to make all those levels (over a hundred of them at this moment).