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You guys built that in 24 hours? Killer job! I skimmed the javascript... How do you collaborate on something like that? Does one person write most of javascript

• wylie 15y ago
  Thank you! I'm glad you asked about this, because I'm really proud of how well we worked together. We had two developers and two designers/strategists, and only one person with previous hackathon experience. The idea came from an offhand comment when we got stuck on another silly idea. After hashing it out, we realized that we all had the same goal in mind and started to build. It was easy to split up the work because our skill sets were so different. We weren't stepping on each other's feet, and because of the time constraints, we didn't have time to second-guess anything. We used Dropbox and Github to manage our files, and frequently pushed updates to each other. Dmitri wrote the server and scraped the CrunchBase. I wrote all the Javascript, except for the backend API calls and some setup logic. Adrian and Chris created all of the game mechanics and graphics, our main website, and some sounds that we never ended up using. We did have some tense moments where Dmitri and I were both editing the Javascript and had conflicts, so we decided to both work on the same screen to stay sane. But everything else was a collaboration towards a shared vision, where we each had very clearly delineated roles.
• SandersAK 15y ago
  actually there were two devs, one graphics and one game concept guy. it was great because Wylie and Dmitri had skills that dovetailed nicely. Chris and I mostly just provided the lulz.