User blog comment:AtomicScientist/What to do, What to do... (LEGO Minifigures Release.)/@comment-4724333-20130829204750/@comment-1392407-20130829213702

Recruiting bears few fruits. When we passively recruited through our site, most people didn't meet the criterion. A few never even bothered replying to our replies. The people who wanted to join also went from a few a month to none within a few months.

When I recruited actively, just about nobody wanted to join. Nobody on RRU, where there's got to be at least four/five people who could seriously help. Nobody on LU Wiki (I'm pretty sure we recruited there), where there was bound to be at least one person. Nobody on Brickipedia who stuck around (just Drew, who had to go), where I could expect at least one person to know something about something.

Those people I recruited for AB? Mat was a bad composer, but I wasn't aware of the fact that we could find better people (even if they weren't a ton better). FB100Z, SKP, and that other guy? They could help with web stuff but they weren't going to learn UnityScript any time soon. The only one who could really help was Drew but he's too busy with stuff to help...and that was a relatively good find. Other sites have yielded "0" anything.

I know that the idea of recruiting is sound, but we really don't have the people to make a game as-is, and a lot of capable individuals won't join a team just to do most of the work.

As for "EXAMPLES INCLUDED IN APPLICATION"...what's that mean?