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Hi, thank you for your interest! We are looking for someone to develop on an existing world. We have the main character story and the base story for the game. What we need is a different type of tasks including:

• Writing characters  > village NPC + enemies (only a few have a personality but there is a lot of them to design from 0)
• Designing the main quest to help with the narrative-driven story immersing the player in the world, but at the same time avoids frustration and helps the player to feel rewarded/accomplished.
• Write secondary quests based on the village NPC wallowing immersion into the world.
• Being in charge of creating a balance between gameplay and narrative.

I am a concept artist/storyteller who loves giving life to ideas, but by attempting to write the main quest I realized that being able to create worlds and stories doesn´t mean Im good at making those playable and challenging. This is why we looking for someone who has previous experience as we putting our heart into this project and we want people to enjoy it as much as possible. We believe this part of the game is really important and want to deliver the best result possible. 

If you want to know more about the general story or any other details feel free to message me on Discord: aika112

Hi! I am an artist and a storyteller, so I am able to write, the thing is by attempting to write the quests myself I discovered designing good quest is not that easy. The only reason that we ask for previous experience is to have some understanding on how do quests work and how their narrative affects gameplay. Although this is really subjective as even if someone did write quests before it doesn't mean they are good at it. The same way maybe someone who never did them but did a lot of writing and participated in game design can do an amazing job at it. This topic is really different form person to person so if you think you would be good at it you can message me on discord and we can have a talk about it.

Thank you!

Hi! The project is slowly moving forward and our team is looking for some help with quest design and dialogue narrative. Our goal right now is to develop a 1h Beta that we will publish as a demo. After this, we will look at how to approach the completion of the full game.  Currently, we do not have a budget. 

All members of the team worked on previous game projects before, studied game design, or worked in related fields. We understand this is a project with no budget, but we put a lot of work and passion into giving the best results possible and making this project a reality. Because of this, we are looking for someone who can work in a team, enjoy creative processes,  and have some experience in writing quests (any type of experience is welcomed)

In terms of story, there is a huge planning done already but there is still a lot of work to design the specific quests, some of the NPCs, dialogues, etc.

If you want more information about the project message me on my Discord: aika112

About the game

The Land of Lies is a story-driven pixel top-down fantasy adventure RPG.  The player will role-play as the main protagonist and choose how the story will progress and the speed at which they want to complete their adventure. The main objective is to follow the main quest and defeat the final boss, but the player can choose when to progress with the main quest. The player can choose to focus on the main quest, complete side quests which would increase their popularity in the village, play mini-games like fishing, decorate their house, or even just roam around the forest defeating enemies to increase their economy by selling the loot.

Short synopsis:

You will help Orla in her journey, during the day you will help the villagers and explore the surrounding forest, during the night you will face your own nightmares of the mistakes of your past. You were told your whole life how bad forest people are...yet you still think about that one you befriended when you were small and who betrayed you. When a meteorite falls, you will have to face your past and recover its power before they do it... unless it was all a lie and by recovering the meteorite you awaken an old force that starts corrupting and killing everything in its surroundings. Now you will have to adventure in the magic forest and face the corruption defeating the evil you awaken.

Hi! Thank you for your offer, we are far from the stage of translating. Once we reach that stage we will let you know if you are still interested!

Hi! We have designed some combat mechanics and now we looking for someone who wants to have fun exploring these ideas. You will work closely with our Level Designer to implement and explore the mechanics for the combat. Our programmers are a little bit busy right now so we looking for someone who is willing to take on this task.

Pillars of the mechanics: 

Use the enemy’s strength against themselves

• • Wind is a defensive magic, cannot deal damage itself, it is air. So the idea is to focus the gameplay on using enemy attacks against themselves (friend damage).
  • Players will feel smart when figuring out how the different enemy attacks can be used as a weapon against other enemies or even themselves.

Constant flow (like the wind)

• • Players will feel like they are invincible, no one can touch them while they are flowing between the enemies

Simple controls, deep mechanics

• • Few buttons to remember/use but useful in many different ways and many situations. Understanding when to use them will be key in mastering the combat.
  • Player will feel they are becoming combat experts when understanding the different possibilities that the simple controls actually have.

If you want more information about the project message me on my Discord: aika112

Image: Turn around of the current in-game model of the protagonist.

At the current stage, we don't have a budget, this might change in the future but I can't promise anything. You will get full credit for your work and of course you can add it to your portfolio. 

Hi! You can call me Aika I'm 24 and I'm looking for people who would like to join our team! We are gonna move now into preproduction and we would love some help! I´m a concept artist and a storyteller with a huge dream of telling my story in a playable way. This story is really important for me and I want the dream of making it into a game come true!
We are committed to finishing this project no matter how much time it takes, but we understand not everyone can commit 24/7. All the work you produce can be used in your portfolio as long as it doesn´t contain heavy spoilers and you will ALWAYS get credit for the work you produce no matter how much you do.

(Image: Our current Sprite for the protagonist)

Goal:

The current goal is to create a playable Demo of 30min-1h, from there we will look for a roadmap to create the full project. Right now we don´t have a budget but we will look into the option of getting one after we see the results of the demo (If that is the case everyone will be compensated even if you leave the team before this happens. For now, this is just an option for the future so we won´t count on that for now).

If you want more information about the project message me on my Discord: aika112

Short Synopsis:

You will help Orla in her journey, during the day you will help the villagers and explore the surrounding forest, during the night you will face your own nightmares of the mistakes of your past. You were told your whole life how bad forest people are...yet you still think about that one you befriended when you were small and who betrayed you. When a meteorite falls, you will have to face your past and recover its power before they do it... unless it was all a lie and by recovering the meteorite you awaken an old force that starts corrupting and killing everything in its surroundings. Now you will have to adventure in the magic forest and face the corruption defeating the evil you awaken.

(Image: A quick illustration of the main character)

We looking for:

Currently, our team has 2 artists including myself, but our main artist will be busy with work I the upcoming weeks and I have to take care of lot of other tasks. This is why we need some help! We have both styles: pixel and digital drawing. 

Hi there! Your discord doesn´t work and can´t add you.  I wanted to have a small chat with you. My discord is: aika112

Hey, I would like to talk. My discord: aika112

Any help is appreciated RN, I would be more than happy to help you. Added you on discord.

Hi! Thank you so much for reaching out! We don't have enough progress RN for a translator, I will add you and once we advance enough I will reach out to see if you are still available!

We have most roles covered but would be amazing to get more pixel artists, artists for dialog sprites (non pixel), and a level designer.

Hi no worries I added you!

Hi! My name is Malwina but you can call me Aika, I live in Spain, and I'm a Storyteller and Concept artist. For a really long time I wanted to give life to my idea, but I can´t make it alone so I'm looking for people who would like to expand their skills or simply accept a challenge and join my journey. This is a long term project and the plan is to create a beta and from there looking into the possibility of fully finishing the project. I will give my whole heart into finishing this project but feel free to abandon the project at any point. 

For now any skill is needed in the early stage of exploration for the gameplay and style. The idea is an up-down style RPG adventure game with an emotional story, boss fights, minigames, side quests in the village, house custumization, ability upgrades and more!  No payment can be offered but feel free to include the work on this project into your portfolio! If we succeed and this long term projects becomes real, I would love to open a crowd founding to make the full project and if any revenue is granted it will be divided even if you abandon the project before its finished. For now this is just a pasion project from someone who always dreamed about making a real game. 

This is a test drawing I did (this is not the final style and a lot of exploration is needed but I am new to pixel art so I'm learning along the way).

Engine:

Unity

Story:

You will help Orla in her journey, during the day you will help the villagers and explore the surrounding forest, during the night you will face your own nightmares of the mistakes of your past. You were told your whole life how bad forest people are...yet you still think about that one you befriended when you were small and who betrayed you. When a meteorite falls you will have to face your past and recover its power before they do it... unless it was all a lie and by recovering the meteorite you awaken an old force that starts corrupting and killing everything in its surroundings. Now you will have to adventure in the magic forest and face the corruption defeating the evil you awaken. 

Gameplay :

-Combat: Similar fight style to "cult of the Lamb" with no leveling, instead you will upgrade your weapon and unlock new abilities, dashes, etc.

-Minigames: Would love to incorporate some interesting minigames in the village to break monotony and do some side fun. 

-Exploration: Explore the forest, find resources for the village, fight some monsters and come back home safe...or they will have to scout you and that ain't cheap.

-Boss fights: From wild creatures to defeating magical forest people to corrupted monsters. As the game progresses more creatures will get corrupted and difficulty will rise.

-Main mission: At the start, you will have to retrieve the meteorite from what you believe is the worst monster ever, when you do you find out they were just protecting an ancient secret and you unleash a forgotten villain.  After freeing him you will have to defeat corrupted monsters to reach the final boss and defeat him for good.

-Side quests: Fed up of defeating monsters? Dont worry there is plenty of missions from your dear villagers, pick up sticks for a campfire, find the lost pet of an old man so he can stop being depressed, and finally repair the bridge, you will love spending hours fishing just to fish that one fish the lady wanted for her dinner...splendid.

Housing: Your life is hard enough just stay home and decorate your house, after all the corruption can wait until you finish gaining money for that one plant that fits perfectly your room. 

RECRUITING:

Programmers  and level designers:

On one side there is easy things like side quests, minigames etc. On the other there is a challenge to make satisfactory boss fights, new abilites, there will be no level but you will upgrade your dead father's weapon to unlock new abilities and items. I cant program and Im not a level designer so I really need help here. I have a lot of ideas and I love video games but need someone to take the challenge with me and make it real.

Artists:

Help me experiment and establish a style. Im happy to change things and give some freedom as I believe positive feedback is always good! 

Dont have to be pixel art as sprites and illustrations will be done in a different style! If you unsure if you can help feel free to message there is a lot of things needed and If you never did pixel art or want to learn to animate idles I would be more than happy to teach you!

-Sprite+idles 

-Character design for villagers and other secondary characters

-Creature design 

-Monster design

-Prop design

-Backgrounds

-VFX (attacks, abilities, particles, etc.)

-Illustrations for story scenes. (Some emotional scenes will have some illustrations to show better what is happening)

Composer:

Music is another form of art and as this is an emotional story it needs emotionally strong music. 

-Boss fight music

-Emotional pieces for the sad and happy moments

-Ambient music (Example: Village, forest exploration, side quests)

-Sound effects (Jumps, fighting effects, interface sounds, etc.)

Other:

If you have any other skills just message me! I love working in teams and I love positive criticism and input. This project is ambitious and will require lot of different skills. I would be more than happy to have you on my team <3 

Contact:

Discord: aika112

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Hi, I would like more information about the project and ask questions. Here is my discord: aika112