You can read the answers to your questions there because this is asked ALL THE TIME. There are also forums for asking for help from artists and progammers.
Also look into a high level engine to drive your proof of concept. That way you can drop in your artwork and models and begin your scripting. Developing an engine from scratch would not be time well spent as your focus is to shop your 'idea' around and not the next killer 3d engine'.
Something like blender or crystal space should do.
Then if your idea gets picked up you can hire competent coders to design the engine correctly.
I spent a couple of years coding a 3d engine on the side with python as a scripting language. I got so caught up in the engine part the only actual game I created with it was a 3d pong clone for a flipcode contest:( At least I placed second place. Everything else I wrote was test scripts to test the new feature of the week. Anyways, I learned alot so it was worth it for me.
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:( At least I placed second place. Everything else I wrote was test scripts to test the new feature of the week. Anyways, I learned alot so it was worth it for me.
The have a message board fourum for 'The Business of Game Development'.
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/forum.a
You can read the answers to your questions there because this is asked ALL THE TIME. There are also forums for asking for help from artists and progammers.
Also look into a high level engine to drive your proof of concept. That way you can drop in your artwork and models and begin your scripting. Developing an engine from scratch would not be time well spent as your focus is to shop your 'idea' around and not the next killer 3d engine'.
Something like blender or crystal space should do.
Then if your idea gets picked up you can hire competent coders to design the engine correctly.
I spent a couple of years coding a 3d engine on the side with python as a scripting language. I got so caught up in the engine part the only actual game I created with it was a 3d pong clone for a flipcode contest
Good Luck!
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