Hypothetically, if someone was interested in working with Dark Cookie, how might they go about doing that?
you could tell us picarto mods (some of us are registered in this forum as well) and we would tell you on Picarto or contact DC in chat (picarto) in one of his streams but he doesn't really like that as we already answer for him as he ignores alot of those chat messages already cause he has to explain the same stuff over and over again for years now.
I give you a short crash course in what you might have to offer and how to approach the right people.
ART: For now only DC is drawing and if you wanna apply you have to go on his discord and show that you can draw exactly the same way he does. If its not even similar i can give you the answer right away.
NO! It is either exactly his Art style or not happening.
He gets way to many people trying to apply for ART and in the past he always had to rework the ART those people made. So in short he could have done it himself and would have had much less work to do that way.
Therefore you better make sure you can perform on the same level before you send anything to him or you will get a No as an answer right away.
The only one approving or disproving about drawings, Art Style is DC himself. If you can't draw the same way SS looks you can already forget it.
Everything else like Coding, Animation, Testing:
Contact over Discord "Captain Sploosh" and he will look into it for you. He is basically the one who coordinates everyone else and makes sure everyone does his tasks for an update and DC is only working on Art. That way everyone has his own tasks of doing for an update and no one can blame someone else for not having anything to work on for every update.
There are others you can contact but it either ends up to "DC" or to "Captain Sploosh" who will decide anything in that matter.
It brings absolutely nothing to write to Discord Mods as they will only redirect you to Sploosh.
Also they won't teach you anything on the way. You either know already your stuff or the answer is most likely a NO. And i dont know anything about the work schedule either so you better talk to sploosh about anything but i would wait till the update drops before you contact anyone as they get in a way better mood once the update is released and bugfixes are done so you get a better approach.
Hope that helps.