I’m trying to make a pocket pet game, like the evolution of all the little calculator screened toys in the 90’s and 00’s. I don’t want it to be the whale hunting, spyware riddled garbage that most phone games are. I’d rather like to release it on F-Droid instead of Google if I release it at all. I have all of it worked out on paper, from the random tables to the creature stats, to the combat mechanics, you can play it as a pen and paper if you wanted to. Problem is, I’m a pen and paper guy, and I’m having an awful time trying to learn anything about code. Where do I go to get help with this?
Not what OP asked
This is No Stupid Questions and you ranted about how annoying and useless OPs ask was because you assumed they didnt have any of the information you wanted to know before YOU would consider helping them.
Its fine to educate them on what problems they may encounter, but you didnt actually answer “where do i go to find someone”
Dick move bro, real dick move.
Is OP likely to use this No Stupid Questions community in the future after your completely off topic response? I cant answer im not OP but it will definately deter some people.
Hope you feel real good about your “answer”
I really want to point out what you said
That is literally the advice they are asking for
Have a nice life
Dude!
Op wrote one of the kost comprehensive answers I’ve seen here and you’re bitching about him ranting?
He gave a perfect and detailed explanation on why this won’t work, and to top it off, he added what the person can do to go from here, if he/she is serious about it.
This is exactly what op asked
Have a nice life? Seriously? Have a nice life too a-hole
Reread everything man, im not the asshole here.
It ia a very well written answer. But its absolutely NOT what was being asked.
OP literally said in the text body “I have everything worked out…im a pen and paper guy and cant code”
From saying i dont want to release on Google, want to release on F-Droid
The question is “Where can i find someone?” And the comment you think is so great does NOT answer that. Almost the last point of advice given in it is
Do you understand that this what OP is already asking? Like its literally what was being asked for, not a diatribe of why being asked to help with a project is often a waste of the programmers time?
Seriously go re read the entire post, and the entire comment that i replied to, you should see how douchy it is. It comes across as belittling and condescending. And it makes absolutely zero mention of where to go looking for someone help with this project.
If you reread them both and still think it is exactly what was being asked for, i will listen and genuinely try to understand how you think it answers the question.
And please, keep in mind that the question was posted in No Stupid Questions, so it should not matter how likely OP is to not have someone agree to help and accuses OP, obliquely, of having a "half-baked” idea, which i assert is a really shitty thing to do in this specific community.
And i dont think the post is bad advice, but that it is specifically NOT an appropriate response for this post, as it was written.
Like, answer the question first, and then give all that advice, but its pretty condescending to end it in a bullet point fashion with telling them to do what they LITERALLY by posting in the first place