Hello! My team is recruiting unpaid volunteers for a small visual novel project, currently titled "Between Two Worlds" (B2W for short). This title will be free to play, pay what you want on itch.io upon release.
Note: These are contributor roles, not part of the core dev team decision-making unit.
Based on our timeline, all of your assets should be completed before August 20th. If you need extensions for any reason, please let me know ahead of time. We have a hard November deadline for release.
Our core team includes:
- the creative director
- the lead writer / UI designer (that's me!)
- the CG artist / sprite artist / character designer
At this time, our dev team also includes a composer and a title card artist recruited as contributors.
I am looking for individuals who are 18+ ONLY that can contribute as:
- Background Artist (Real Life) - one large/wide background with day/night variants; total of (2)
- Background Artist (Fantasy World) - four regular backgrounds with day/night variants, total of (8)
STORY SYNOPSIS
Esther is a cynical girl suffering from a novel disease that has kept her bedridden since childhood. A new boy, Cyrus, moves into her hospital ward and introduces her to a VR game called ATLAS: The Last Adventure. There, she plays as her avatar "Asther" and meets Callisto, a handsome and mysterious wizard that joins her escape from a bleak reality: She only has a month to decide whether she's going to participate in a clinical study that might kill her. Does she choose to abandon pain and embrace a dream, or fight for a chance at a "real" life?
The story is a kinetic adventure with minor conversational nuances in the common route. There is a "split" decision that will take you down Cyrus or Callisto's route, and then the True Ending once you've seen both.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Attached to this ad are the mockups for our "Real Life" UI and our "Fantasy World" UI, which roughly represent what we are looking for.
Background Artist (Real Life) - one large/wide background with day/night variants; total of (2)
The "Real" background is going to be a single wide-shot panorama of a hospital room from the perspective of the person sitting in the bed. A fish-eye lens is *not* required but can be explored. All scenes in the "Real" sections of the VN will use this same background, and will pan left/right depending on if Esther is looking at the window or the door.
Background Artist (Fantasy World) - four regular backgrounds with day/night variants, total of (8)
The "Fantasy" backgrounds should be rendered in full color with a JRPG-like feel. They should be rendered with this brush set, to match our sprites. There will be day/night variants of the following 4 scenes:
- Field
- Forest
- Town Square
- Inn (Interior)
CONTACT INFO
To apply to join our project, please submit the following to raine_write on discord, via DM.
- Role you're applying for
- Your name and age
- Social media handle(s)/portfolio(s)
- Short introduction/get-to-know-you/why you should be chosen
Thanks for reading, your time is very much appreciated!
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