Hello guys, hope to find you all well,
So, I think that the collaboration section of this amazing community is a little slow and I wanted to create a community project that is casual enough for people to hop in.
#About the project
The idea is to create a Tower Defense along with the community and documentate it here with everyone’s experiences so hopefully more projects can start after this one, there is a Discord channel so people can casually participate giving ideas and discussing about the game or even actively participate in the development of the game by picking and compromising themselves to a role. This project won’t have any kind of revenue, the idea is to make a Credits scene with links to everyone’s page/portfolio or even add ingame links and references to the developers.
#The actual stage of the game
There are only two active developers so far, me and @OboShape , he has been doing the programming and I, the 3d models (I’ve done only one so far actually 
), but the whole point of this project is to make people collaborate with each other, so it is on hold for now until more people join it.
The theme that we came up with is a Low Poly and easy to animate Tower Defense game in a Virtual environment where the player have to protect the system against a virus, the game could happen on top of computer boards/components with chips and capacitors around.
The story that we have so far is:
Project H. I. V. E. (Human Interface Viability Experiment)
Information… The modern day currency for corporations and the criminal underworld.
A global digital battleground, constantly waging between todays cyber criminals and those security agencies bound by the morality of law to keep is safe during our daily lives, the fight is relentless.
The weapons of choice for the criminal, a steady stream of zeroes and ones forming ever evolving mathematical algorithms and heuristics to mimic behavioural patterns and penetrate our digital footprint and reap the informational spoils undetected and untraceable.
Our countermeasures to this constant attack … a reactive state to continually detect, adapt, intercept and dispose of threats as they happen, unfortunately this involves time to compute a retaliatory design and sometimes this window of vulnerability is exploited.
This needs to change…. And fast
For the most part attacks are viral, they are based on predetermined and programmed behaviour and algorithms follow rules. What we as a society ned is a counter response that is quickly adaptable and has that base AI functionality that no software can replicate….
Human intuition…….
We at H.I.V.E., strive to bind the clinical efficiency of a software defence, with that unreplaceable source of awareness that is human judgement and intuition and utilise this as a gatekeeper.
We may have had just that interfacing breakthrough that could change the digital security landscape forever…
These clinical trials begin now with you at the forefront….
OboShape is the one to be credited for both the story and the general theme (which I really liked).
#The Organization and Worflow Structure
We have set up a Discord Channel (there is only 5 people so far on 05-27-2017), and everyone have been helping with ideas etc., There is also a Trello board and we want to use a bit of Scrum & Agile, at least the tasks/sprints format since there is no need to go too formal about it.
We are also using the Unity Collaborate tool as the Version Control System, and there is also an BitBucket (git) repository going on to help with the backup since the Unity Collaborate is still in the early stages.
#Available Roles
Well, pretty much everything, I will just list a few things that people could do:
###3D modeling and Animators
Even though I’ve started doing some 3d models, wouldn’t be a problem for me to step aside and leave more work to other people to do so everyone who wants to participate can join, also there are plenty of different 3d objects such as enemies, towers, environment, maps etc. so many modelers could participate if they want to.
Juan from the Discord Channel said that within a few days he should be able to help modeling a few things too
###2D Artist
Could help the 3D modelers by doing textures, creating sprites for the buttons, help the level designer to sketch how a level should look like, create concept arts (if they want to), create/find art to add as background etc. you name it.
(there is currently too many coders, it is advised to pick another role)
###Programming
The game is being made in Unity, so unfortunately Unreal developers won’t be able to participate as much. But I think that there is still room for some more programmers, some could help with overall logic, point system, level system etc. And if you are afraid to participate, you don’t have to be since both me and Darren can help with the code if there is something that isn’t working as expected.
###Level Design
There is a need to create levels with gradual difficulty in order to keep the player in the right flow of difficulty, also the level designer could help the modelers with ideas etc.
NoamGingi from the discord channel have been helping with this, but there is room for more people to participate
###Story and Game Design
Thinking about game mechanics, how the story will fit into the game etc., there is plenty of things to be done here;
Cyristaline from the discord channel have been helping with this, but there is room for more people to participate
###Document the game in the forum
Since the main idea of this project is to make it collaborative and documented, this person could help in the structure of how this should be done, take screenshots, make videos about the current state of the game and the difficulties that the team is facing, also it would be good to documentate how the Collaborative experience is going, what is working as expected and what isn’t
###Others
These roles I’ve listed are just the ones I’ve though of, if you think you could help with something else, go for it 
you can even just participate in the discord channel with ideas and test the game, the point is to collaborate.
#You are invited to collaborate
Well, this is the main idea of this project, let me know your thoughts about it even if you are not willing to participate, any ideas of how we could make it better would be very welcome!
Join the Discord channel
PS: @Rob was very helpful with his ideas even before this project started, so Thanks Rob! You and Darren (OboShape) are awesome people!
