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Still looking for a pixel artist!

Still looking for a pixel artist!

Actually, I think I managed to find your Discord! I sent you a friend request!

Lets connect! Whats your discord? Would love to chat!

Hi, Scostasr, I guess I forgot to enable my friend requests. I sent you a friend request just now!

PROJECT SOV: A Game Inspired by Classic 2D Zelda Games

STATUS :

CODER: 🔴 CLOSED

ARTIST: 🟢 OPEN

(Not paid currently)

Developed by: Team Aftozoi

Project Description: Project SOV is a Zelda-inspired game with elements from these Games/Series: Shin Megami Tensei, Nadia: The Secrets of Blue Water, Undertale/Deltarune, Earthbound, Mother 3, Adventure Time, Chrono Trigger, and Zelda, respectively.

Why we need help: We're confident in our idea, but we are currently in need of help. My team consists of 3 people (1 coder, 1 artist, and me, who is doing Pixel Art, Music, Story, Dialogue, and pretty much everything else in the game). All of us have been working very hard since August 2025 to make this game come to fruition. The current date of release is in the 3rd Quarter of 2026, though the date is expected to be adjusted.

What we currently need:
1 . A specialized pixel artist to do tile sheet work (possibly building the maps in the engine, though not required), editing character sprites, and doing building sprites.

2 . A coder with an intermediate level of coding who knows the basics of GMS2.

The YouTube video I attached includes:
Boss Theme, Shop Theme, Temple Theme, and Town Theme. (Keep in mind, these tracks are not the finished product.)

The Image attached to the video is concept art made for Project SOV.

Check out some of my jam works if you're curious about my previous projects: https://maximinlianx.itch.io/

Also, here's a link to my current portfolio: https://www.maximilianvalentino.com/portfolio

Thank you so much for reading this, and we hope to hear from some of you soon! Feel free to reach out if you'd like more information

Discord: maximilianvalentino

Email: officialmaximilianvalentino@gmail.com 

Hey DDS! (dazzling duck studios!) Thank you for playing our game! I'm glad you liked the music. I tried to incorporate a variety of racing game music (Ridge Racer Type 4, F-Zero Outrun). I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as you did, and I appreciate the text you wrote to us. 

Unfortunately, Lucia has not given us our money back. She instead spent it irrationally.

Jokes aside, thank you for playing our game! I'm glad you enjoyed the sounds and graphics! That means a lot!

Thank you, Niko from Oneshot, I really appreciate that!

Interesting, but it froze after I pressed pause and sped it up.... not sure what happened. Either way, pretty neat

Thank you mega animation!!!

We had more plans for that, but unfortunately, time ran out, so we focused on driving. Glad you liked it!

Funnny game, though there was a LOT of dialogue.... I liked it though. I hope you guys come back to this! good music tooooo!

Interesting.....

Interesting experience for sure, cool music

Interesting game, I think the premise is interesting. I wasn't expecting to have to spam WASD to get the player up that was kind of funny. I will say, during the piano part the constant popping with the sound was unsatisfying when I would press on the keys on time(  I wanted to hear the peace without it, it was so pretty : (   ). Also I wish there was a downloadable version, it's so small on my monitor!! I can see the passion from the project great job! I want to the team the best! I would love it if you guys could check our game out!

I'm not sure if it was a bug but everytime a new piece of dialog appeared the dialog box would open and close which for me made it very disorienting to read all of it. It didn't stay consistent instead it was like 0 - 0 - 0 (0 = open, - = closed). Another way of explaining it would be that the dialog box was blinking like eyes, every time new dialog would appear it would blink instead of staying open. Hopefully that explains it!

Interesting. I'm not sure what's going on. I like the art; that's my favorite part of this game. However, I think this game needs sound work. Possibly, more music would help. In the first part, I got tired of hearing the 30-second loop over and over when I was trying to figure out what to do. It is an interesting concept, though. I hope you continue this. The dialogue box kept closing, making it hard to read. 

Was it ending two? Also, glad you liked it! Thank you for playing!

It's a cute, interesting concept. Although I didn't like dying 400 times at the beginning, I kinda enjoyed dying; it was funny. I think instead of dying, it should've teleported me back to the beginning of the street instead of a game over. I also like the story!

I love the art, it's very charming. I will say I'm not sure why at the beginning he needs to get 2 pieces of a ladder and climb it. I see that you've made this yourself. Great job! I can see that you put a lot of time into this.  I wish there were more music, even for the short areas. The piano is interesting.... I think it sounds a little dry, maybe in a future version, have some reverb to help it fit the rain? 

I also think that having more apartment doors might have helped. That might have helped the world building, and it would have made it seem less forced when Klara moved in. 

Also, the combat could be a bit more refined; a tutorial of some sort would be helpful. On day two, I died to the monster multiple times, and I'm unsure what to do next.  I ended up guarding, and I figured out the pattern. 

After that 2nd day, the game froze on a loading screen. Either way, Cute little game! I see the love you put into it! I would love to get your feedback on our game! It's called "Monarch;Vertigo"! We would love some feedback. Thank you!

Unfortunately this game will not have battling, sorry if the posting was unclear. I just updated the description.

Yes, I am still looking for a character designer

Hi everyone, my team and I are currently looking for an artist specializing in character design. We have a main concept and a plan for what we want to do we just need a character designer to help us envision it.  This game is going to be a horror game visual novel. This will not be a typical RPG Maker game. It will be a visual novel strictly with puzzle solving and choice making. Please contact me via Discord if you would like to join: maximilianvalentino

Here's my current portfolio : https://www.maximilianvalentino.com/

I'm the dev/producer/composer/sound designer of this project

What we are looking for :

Style : 
Semi-realism
Monochrome
Semi Pixle (very little)
Nior like
Tailored


Games/Media we're inspired by : 
Spider Noir
Silver Case
Theresia DS
Silent Hill 4 the Room

 Tokyo Xtreme Racer Characters (the silhouettes)

Hey Poppo, I'm currently looking for an artist. Are you still looking for a team? Possibly we could chat on Discord about your goals and such. You can add me at maximilianvalentino   Hope to hear from you soon! (I have a full team just need an artist!)

glad you liked it! :)) 

I actually really like the game and thought it was very cool to hear the music constantly evolving. If the delay is fixed then that's my only criticism. I like how all of the sounds are also in key with the music. Reminds me of a mini-game from Rhythm Heaven. Great work! would love more levels!

Thank you! Glad you liked the music! I tried to put a lot of little hints in it to add to the lore. There's a heartbeat in the more natural-sounding songs and none in the more "robotic" sounding songs (there are also some more little things if you listen closely ;)). Like my teammate said we are planning to finish this at a later date! hopefully, We'll see you there!

I started playing this and I wasn't sure what to do. I pressed X and all of these ships started appearing. Maybe a short tutorial to explain how the game works? It is a neat idea though. I like the graphics.

This game is cool, I think it has some good aspects. I don't quite understand what's happening? It goes from talking about Jak to Joe? Then Joe dies? I'm not sure... interesting though. I think the story hops around too much personally. It also introduces new characters very fast and gets rid of characters very fast, it feels like the player missed an epilogue (to me at least). The loading at the start of the game is also quite slow. Hopefully, you can continue to work on this project and fix these things. I do like some of the art though it's neat. Most of these things are easy to fix also so hope to see more!

When I played the opening actually didn't work for me I thought it was a mistake so I skipped it (it was a white screen) so hopefully you can fix that soon. I know it says nothing about AI parameters in the rules. I am a composer and personally would prefer if games used music made by people rather than generative but that's the future (it's already in Unreal). Hope you understand why I feel the way I feel. Good luck with your project if you continue it.

I think it's the angle that's bothering me. I'm not used to moving like that on an isometric field. Again it might just be me because the horizontal and verticle directions feel strange to input with my keyboard. Possibly slowing down the movement speed could help with this?

It also could be a visual thing with the test area. I can't pinpoint what is bothering me but that's the best I can describe. I will say it is a VERY cool idea! Sorry, I don't mean any of this as negative just some helpful criticism. (sometimes in jams people take it to heart, I even have myself). I hope this helps!

Couldn't get the game to start... it froze when I pressed "New game". I restarted and it's stuck on "not licenced by Nintendo" screen

interesting game... Not sure how I feel about the generated music... Wasn't really sure what to do either

It's an interesting concept interested to see more. My only criticism would be that the movement feels a little off.

Great job!

Cute game really nice concept. I can see your inspiration from dragon quest for sure on this. It's honestly a very cute game. I hope you continue to work on this and finish it!