Hi! We're a team of three people getting together to make a novel concept of a competitive survival game (no it's not like RUST/DAYZ/Ark/Don't Starve/etc, far from it), more akin to a mix of STALKER and Death Stranding with a pinch of RTS/Battlerite.
It's a rather small scoped proof of concept that we wanted to participate in Finally Finish Something jam for the fun of it, and then develop it further if we see it working out.
The team currently consists of a gameplay programmer with a couple years of experience, a low poly artist and level/game designer (released some games and done few jams, and a composer.
Although we considered scaling down the concept even further, we would really like to aim for a more complete first version and now looking complete the team with three more people:
Multiplayer programmer
Someone to be in charge of implementing the multiplayer aspect of the game in Unreal Engine and Blueprints/C++. It is limited to a handful of people (like 1v1, maybe 3v3) and will probably be locally hosted to begin with to save us time and reduce scope. Of course you're welcome to participate in developing other parts of the game too if you're interested, but since multiplayer is challenging enough of its own we wanted to find someone to fully focus on that part to begin with.
Character modeller/animator
Someone who would be responsible for modelling, animating, and preferably importing/setting up in unreal our couple characters for the game, very similar to The Wild Eight in style and complexity. The role isn't strictly limited to characters alone, but we don't want to stretch too thin here same as with programming.
Concept artist
It would be awesome if anyone is interested in contributing with simpler/abstract environment sketches to help us establish general mood and creative direction.
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Expectations
We're by no means veterans or experts, and we don't expect you to be either. But we have few years of experience in our fields and know the ropes, so we count on you knowing your way around the basics and delivering within resonable time since we're participating in a jam.
We use Discord for our communications, and we're all responsive and don't go randomly MIA. Since we're all from EU, we would prefer to stick to the somewhat close timezones. And of course, we're doing this in our free time and while we're serious about it, we also want a relaxed atmosphere and try our best to keep it up.
If you are interest, please leave a method of contacting you and maybe some info about yourself and stuff you've done before, or if you have any questions!