#10261 - Nessie - Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:32 pm
I've assembled a small team of talented people to work on a game project that will be seeking commerical publication. The progress on our demo is going well, though the primary artist has recently taken a leave of absence for about a month, possibly longer. We therefore need another artist or two.
Current art needs fall into two general categories...
BG Art: entails polishing existing background tiles and working on any new tiles needed to complete the look for our demo levels. All BG art will be using 16 colour tiles. The BG artist will be expected to either be able to work very closely with someone hired specifically as a level designer or better yet, be able to do double-duty on BG art and level design as the two disciplines are inter-dependant.
Sprite Art: designing and drawing unique enemies and characters for our game, using a mix of both traditional pixel animation and Casltevania style characters comprised of multiple body parts animated via GBA sprite rotation, etc. A tool is in the works to make it easy for the artist to generate these articulated characters. Another important task is to refine our main character animations and generally make the character more unique and memorable. Sprites will be drawn with 16 colours and will roughly be in the size range of 32x40 pixels, though some characters will be both smaller and larger.
The ideal candidate would be equally able to work on excellent quality BG and Sprite art, though if you have an obvious talent for one or the other, that would be fine too.
Art style is similar any of the more recent Castlevania games, especially Aria of Sorrow. Here's a link to some screens from the game, though there are many other sites that have screens, I'm sure: http://www.gamespot.com/gba/adventure/castlevaniaariaofsorrow/screenindex.html
Regarding compensation, we are currently only able to extend royalty offerings to any employee. There are a few situations which might lead to these art positions becoming full-time paid positions, but for now, I can only extend royalty offerings upon publication of the game. The exact amount will be negotiated prior to "hiring" and signing a work contract.
If you are interested in either position, or better yet, can do both, please send me a current portfolio (preferably less than 250K--if we like your work and would like to see more, we'll contact you!) or send me Private Message or e-mail with a link to your website if that's relevant.
Contact: gba_dev@yahoo.com
A very small bit about my experience in the game industry: I've worked as a programmer on several games at Raven Software (a studio of Activision), including: Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II, Soldier of Fortune II, X-Men Legends (not yet released).
Current art needs fall into two general categories...
BG Art: entails polishing existing background tiles and working on any new tiles needed to complete the look for our demo levels. All BG art will be using 16 colour tiles. The BG artist will be expected to either be able to work very closely with someone hired specifically as a level designer or better yet, be able to do double-duty on BG art and level design as the two disciplines are inter-dependant.
Sprite Art: designing and drawing unique enemies and characters for our game, using a mix of both traditional pixel animation and Casltevania style characters comprised of multiple body parts animated via GBA sprite rotation, etc. A tool is in the works to make it easy for the artist to generate these articulated characters. Another important task is to refine our main character animations and generally make the character more unique and memorable. Sprites will be drawn with 16 colours and will roughly be in the size range of 32x40 pixels, though some characters will be both smaller and larger.
The ideal candidate would be equally able to work on excellent quality BG and Sprite art, though if you have an obvious talent for one or the other, that would be fine too.
Art style is similar any of the more recent Castlevania games, especially Aria of Sorrow. Here's a link to some screens from the game, though there are many other sites that have screens, I'm sure: http://www.gamespot.com/gba/adventure/castlevaniaariaofsorrow/screenindex.html
Regarding compensation, we are currently only able to extend royalty offerings to any employee. There are a few situations which might lead to these art positions becoming full-time paid positions, but for now, I can only extend royalty offerings upon publication of the game. The exact amount will be negotiated prior to "hiring" and signing a work contract.
If you are interested in either position, or better yet, can do both, please send me a current portfolio (preferably less than 250K--if we like your work and would like to see more, we'll contact you!) or send me Private Message or e-mail with a link to your website if that's relevant.
Contact: gba_dev@yahoo.com
A very small bit about my experience in the game industry: I've worked as a programmer on several games at Raven Software (a studio of Activision), including: Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II, Soldier of Fortune II, X-Men Legends (not yet released).