Hi — your range caught my attention, because my project is essentially your portfolio's stated interests fused into one game.
I'm Brandon, founder of The Aberrant Raven, building **Contentment** in **Unreal Engine 5.7** — a narrative adventure split across two coupled worlds. The wake world is grounded near-future: an ICU nurse practitioner in a society fracturing around a new drug — clinics, city districts, quiet domestic spaces. The dream world is full fantasy: a JRPG layer with a six-character party, strange biomes, and creature design that runs from whimsical to genuinely unsettling. Character and creature concept work is exactly what the dream world needs — the wake world is cast, but the dream world's inhabitants are still waiting for someone to give them faces.
The project is real and organized, not an idea thread: playable-in-editor, source-controlled, with a maintained design bible — so concept work you do actually flows into a game being built, and eventually into key art for a Steam page, which is strong portfolio material for someone finishing their studies.
Terms honestly: passion/hobby collaboration at present, full credit, everything discussed openly up front — and scoped pieces, not vague open-ended asks.
If the two-world premise interests you, add me on Discord: **theaberrantraven** (my account's new, so it's easier if you add me) — I'll show you the worlds and a few characters that need concepting, and you can judge whether the idea earns your time.