I have what I hope is a very basic question. I've been developing games in a PC environment, which allows me to share source files with others. Is there anything equivalent for online development, other than sharing a password? What is recommended practice? Thanks!

Hi there not exactly what you're asking but if you want to share with friends or group online there is Activelit that can be used for sharing games with online editor. Here's the site http://activelit.com/
But if you mean code together may I suggest like github or just file sharing program even dropbox. Their no other ways(that I know personally) to do these things.

Mike

Yeah ActiveLit is not for collaborative editing. You can publish games privately to an ActiveLit group but that's all.

I'd recommend desktop editor + GitHub for collaboration.

there's also "version control software" (google search), but I don't know if they're all for solo/desktop usage or if there's some software for collaboration/online usage. Hopefully there's some free versions, but professionals have to use version control, due to the large teams involved with the projects.

(hmm... maybe github is based off of the free 'git' software I seen when seeing if the google search works)

using github is probably the easiest way to go (albiet there's some learning of how to use it), as Alex advised/mentioned in his post already.

and there's always manual documenting... though coordinating what everyone does and having it all combined into a single master code, will require some organization and work on your part, as you're doing this manually, lol.