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[Unpaid] [GameMaker Studio] Seeking early interest in all roles for Poker VN project

A topic by Meluieth Box created Aug 09, 2025 Views: 534 Replies: 12
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Looking for all positions, mainly artist, writer, and programmer, for work on a VN with small elements of card games. I made decent progress on this project (I do writing and programming myself) but stalled out a couple years ago, now I'd like more people to help me fix up what is there and push it past the finish line.

The elevator pitch: "Poker Night at the Inventory" meets "VA-11 Hall-A". The player enters an underground poker tournament with high stakes and supernatural elements. Character focused rather than story focused, the game is about emulating the unique feelings of meeting a stranger that you're probably not going to see again. It's about unravelling the mystery of a person when you don't even know their name. It's also about the random, unimportant things people talk about around a poker table.

If you're interested, please leave a comment, preferably with a portfolio or at least a base of experience. Moreso because I have a specific vision in place for what I want this game to be and I just want to make sure you're able to match that. Otherwise, this project is very beginner friendly.

Hello. Very little experience on my end; will share image works through a link (current portfolio site is under construction... meaning, indecisive of hosting platform, lol)

Let me know. - email me at ernestgkim@proton.me or discord ernestbert

Hi there, I have several experiences on user interface. You can view my portfolio on my profile or vgen. Looking forward to your reply!

Sorry, I'm not really looking for someone to handle the UI for this project. Thanks for the interest, though!

It's alright, thanks for the confirmation and best of luck!

Hi! 

I'm a narrative writer seeking a team to collaborate with on a beginner friendly project, and this supernatural-esque poker tournament game sounds really interesting! I have a small portfolio with original concepts, character bios, and choice maps. The link to my portfolio is on my profile and I would love to answer any other questions you may have. 

Thanks! 

Sierra 

Hey, I actually would be interested in discussing further? Would it be better to reach out here or on discord?

Right here on itch would be great! Or if you’d prefer to email me initially that would be fine as well. 
Thanks for the response- excited to hear from you! 

I can go into more detail over email, you can reach me at antoniosanoja72@gmail.com, but I would actually be interested in someone to help me clean up the design doc, add more pertinent information now that we're working with a team here, and provide some scene ideas. Does that sound like something you'd be interested in?

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Hey, thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately we do have someone now working on character design work and I think your skills might be a little redundant with what we've got. I really do appreciate it tho!

Hey! This sounds like an awesome concept.  If you're ever in need of a translator, I'm an English to Latin American Spanish game translator and would love to help out on this. I've translated story-rich, character-focused games and it'd be a dream to give all of your unique characters their voices in another language so that more people can meet them. My Discord is franstac, if you're interested :) Have a great rest of your week!

The prospect of a Spanish translation is interesting, but I think it's too early in the project to make a decision on it now. If it's alright with you, I may contact you again in the future to ask about it, but for right now I don't think we need to be focusing on getting a localization.

Of course! Thank you so much and I wish you all the best on the development ❤️