Finding a Team

1. Where to look for people.
   Lots of places. The most obvious are the devlogs if you have started them at this point. Otherwise: reddit, devianart, etc.

2. Choosing right people.
   After you post your announcement on forum you'll start to receive proposals. There are going to be several of them and you'll have to decide which one is best for you. Practice shows, that it is critical to find people who you are comfortable to work with. Who think in similar terms that you do. The best way to understand that is to agree on a small test task for symbolic compensation. You'll get a chance to interact and see if you can come to a mutual understanding of the project needs. In practice it means that apart from budget on your project you also need a budget for choosing right people for you. It takes 3 or 4 attempts. Keep that in mind.

3. Artists are not game designers.
   When speaking to artist it's necessary to clearly state what game elements should present on the screen. What is important and what is not.
   E.g. for the arkanoid, there is a ball, a platform, a bricks area, left, right, top walls, a bottom part of the screen where the ball is lost. Those are must. Besides, you need some way to display remaining lives, and possible score. Those are secondary. It's possible to create a side panel to hold score and lives, but it will end up mostly empty. Is it really necessary then? If the artist can come up with a good idea, you can use it. The important idea is: before speaking to artist you need to understand in advance as clearly as possible what game elements you'll need.

4. Stages of interaction with artist.
   Typically it's something like
       1. Several rough drafts and concepts
       2. Further development of a concept
       3. Towards final quality
   Instead of detalization, ask artist to draw concepts. Insist on postponing detalization until you have drafts for majority of your game elements.

5. Ask for budget estimate.
   Artists tend to underestimate the amount of work necessary to finish even a simple game. Keep a table of game elements you'll need to implement [example] and on each stage of interaction with an artist ask him to give an estimate for a budget necessary to get his concept to finished state. If his estimate severely outgrows the amount of money you are willing to spend on the game, discard the concept and choose a more simple one.