What experience does the game programmers require to work?

Hmmm ... interesting. This thread caught my attention right away. I know from experiance that there are always 50-people forecasting doom for every new idea that pops up. The only real question is how committed are you to this venture?

I would assume that if you are still pursuing this idea after so long that you are commited to it. Since I am an eternal optimist and a retired programmer teaching school let's see what I can offer.

I don't have a handle on what you want to do so here is what we do:

Our game programming club on Saturdays took the approach that we would produce a small 3d game in the likeness of World of Warcraft and build it from Open Source software only.

We used:

Blender 3d .. for char creation with output to MD2 format

Dev C++ compiler for coding with an import to OpenGL

DirectX for sound

Status: our engine is complete and students are loading characters into our engine as a class inheritance. We have everything from well designed characters to carrots running around in our game throwing fire balls, casting spells and swinging swords (we even have a cube with legs and no arms doing the same <-- lazy student

We are more than happy to share what we have learned (about 4-years worth of code) and are at your disposal. I will throw all of our resources up on www.learntogame.com if you want them.

Ball is in your court,

Look at the post count for the kid. He posted his one message and never has been back.
That tells us several things:
He doesn't monitor these forums at all.
He's not serious about his effort.
He's just a kid with fluffy ideas and no sense of reality.

good point