IndieGameJobs.com
The guy who runs GameBeep.com just dropped me a line about Indie Game Jobs, a site that lets you post and search for… uh… maybe I should just paste from the e-mail:
A new job board, www.indiegamejobs.com, just opened up that caters to the independent game developer. The site allows you to post jobs or search through job categories including 3d, textures, programming, and level design. You can evaluate artists by previewing their work and reading feedback ratings from other users. You can also post and browse resumes.
I haven’t actually given the idea much thought. I’ve been entertaining thoughts of using RentACoder.com to accelerate my own prototyping or dev work. Would a dedicated site be a better matchmaker? Frequently, the most productive outcome of these sites is a few test runs, and then an “off the grid” relationship with someone who works out particularly well. If IndieGameJobs gets sufficient volume (and quality), maybe it can help me find that special someone.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:53 am
I heard from Tokash that Rent-A-Coder has become dominated by non-coding-related jobs, like proofreading. Apparently MTurk also contains either weird or underpaying tasks (like “draw a sheep facing left”).
May 16th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
How funny. Easier to hand off, I guess. The sheep thing is hilarious. The overhead of the project so massively dwarfs the productivity.
I’ve been considering handing off some easy to package OSCommerce work to RAC or similar– there does seem to be a lot of web work still on the site. It would still leave me with a remarkable amount of cleanup work to do that isn’t easy to farm out, but it could cut out a good 25% or so of the work.