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
You can also message this post for any questions!