Story: Cosimo Spadaro (potentially renamable MC) is an Italian Renaissance artist forced away from his family as a child to work with his father's collaborator because he failed to meet expectations. Then he meets the closest friends of his life, first Emiliano and then Aurelia as they all work in the workshop. Emiliano is the charming art prodigy from a humble background while Aurelia is the master's daughter who is aiming to rise into her own fame.
As the three are on your quest for greatness, you can deepen your relationship with either and walk down to the ends of their paths. It's a "dark" coming-of-age and psychological drama with surreal elements.
I'll be updating monthly or bimonthly on itch.io so if anyone would like to collab or get insight into development here are who I'm looking for:- Character artist: I'm coding a GUI that will contain character info's and, if an artist would like to make the official designs, character portraits. For this role contact me with examples of your art and if you'd like ask me first for character descriptions. The main characters are 2-3 but you can do more if you'd like.
- Main menu artist: whoever would like to do a main menu is free to concept the ones they wish. I will provide input on context, readability and theme cohesion only. Please DM me with examples of your work if you're interested.
- Logo artist: same details as main menu artist above.
- Beta testers/proofreaders/editor: for the first this is an invitation for those who would like to hang around the server and get early builds of the game to discuss and point out bugs in sever. The second 2 have access to that *but* if you apply to proofread I will hope for checks on the text before I add it to the game and feedback if you have a more editorial mind which I would really appreciate.- Composer: I know how to implement music into Twine so if anyone would like to compose an OST you can contact me for more details, let me know how many songs and what your vision would be for such.
Timeframe: I'm a writer focused in developing and releasing short visual novels and interactive fiction (https://a-villarroel.itch.io/) at a fast pace but here I'm aiming to go slower for better growth and ideas to marinate/experiment with while I finish this. However, the first chapters are written and I'm aiming to release them on July. For time of completion of at least the current outlined game without add-ons I figured it'll be before the year ends. You don't need to follow my pace though.
Payment: I'm a hobby developer making games for free without receiving donations. This game is as such and I can't offer money as payment. You can then volunteer or we can trade. In either case you will be credited unless you don't want to be. If you want to trade I can compensate accordingly to the equivalent in money with:
• Writing: visual novel/interactive fiction scripts, traditional writing (flash fiction, short story, etc), copywriting, etc.
• Proofreading
• Community/social media management.
• Project management.
• Translation: I can translate to English or to LATAM Spanish.
If you're not looking to participate with the mentioned roles and would just like to hang out/help in another area or another subarea/collab let me know regardless! I'm always up to something when it comes to projects and like chatting (:
My Discord handle is @thesloth777 so DM me there if you'd can with this post linked. If I don't reply immediately I'm not ghosting, will reply eventually and to any more questions. I can also provide script so far and story outline upon request. That said thanks for reading!