All of my side-projects from 2012 • Hacker News Board

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by cloudsteam » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 9:17 AM UTC

daeken wrote: post #34

I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple, but: - QtzWeb - https://github.com/daeken/Qtzweb (Quartz Composer -> JS+WebGL compiler; used it to partycode http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=60732 ) - QuestCompanions - https://github.com/daeken/QuestCompanions (Online labor marketplace for help in MMORPGs -- complete failure from a commercial perspective!) - SteelBreeze - https://github.com/daeken/SteelBreeze (Xbox emulation platfor…

What happened with QuestCompanions? Is it up still anywhere? haven't sen you on IRC in a while.

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by kyle_wm » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

"I wanted to improve my life skills in some other fashion than programming ... I needed a way to train myself since there are many rules to learn. So, what do I do? I break my rule of no more programming and write my own training software."

Things like this confirm for me that I am in the right profession :)

Re: All of my side-projects from 2012

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Post by daeken » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 1:54 PM UTC

cloudsteam wrote: post #61

daeken wrote: post #34

I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple, but: - QtzWeb - https://github.com/daeken/Qtzweb (Quartz Composer -> JS+WebGL compiler; used it to partycode http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=60732 ) - QuestCompanions - https://github.com/daeken/QuestCompanions (Online labor marketplace for help in MMORPGs -- complete failure from a commercial perspective!) - SteelBreeze - https://github.com/daeken/SteelBreeze (Xbox emulation platfor…

What happened with QuestCompanions? Is it up still anywhere? haven't sen you on IRC in a while.

I kept meaning to write a blog post about it, but it kept getting pushed back. Short story is: we got a decent number of users signed up, but no one was willing to pay money, everyone just wanted to get paid to play games. And by "no one", I truly mean 0%. A few weeks in, the server died and when I brought it back up, I decided not to restore the site (I had backups) but rather keep it down and rebrand it a bit, in hopes of making it clearer and more appealing to people. But I ended up getting way too busy with work and all that, and that never happened.

I opened the source a while back; it'd be cool if someone took it and actually made it successful, but I have serious doubts that it could ever work. I always knew that few users would be willing to pay money for in-game help, but capturing those few turned out to be harder than I thought.