Hello!
I've been a game developer as a hobbyist for a long time and I am now making games as an Indie (i.e. I am making games to sell).
Instead of me doing everything myself (design, development, audio, graphics, playtesting, marketing, etc) I have decided I need to find one or more people as passionate & skilled at art as I am at development & marketing.
I will be developing a series of games this year. Actually you can check out two of my recently completed games... one was just a very simple 4-day project to create a Christmas-themed platform game I made to test Construct 3.
This game uses what I call simplistic 2D HD Art. I would need for an artist to enjoy creating this so called simplistic 2D HD Art and to be able to create the art at least this good as easily & quickly as I did (I did the entire game from design to development to art, recording speech, sounds, etc over a 4-day weekend).
You can play in your browser here... that will be a better way to check it out.
https://garbenjamin.itch.io/christmascubesamazingchristmasquest
My other game which was a much bigger project that I worked on for 4 months part-time was released here 4 days ago and is a paid game.
This game uses ultra lowrez pixel art. The entire screen is at 128x90 resolution. Yes it isn't your eyes playing tricks on you this is from one of the later levels. Story is basically it all started with the fog. That's when the monsters came. The fog thickens every day. Otherwise it is all crisp and clean. You can find many more screenshots as well as a video on the page which I have linked below.
Anyway, I would need for an artist to enjoy creating low rez art and to be able to create art at least as good and as easily & quickly as I can. BUT keep in mind some games will be higher resolution. One game might be 160x120, another might be 256x180 (probably the highest I'd ever go ever for pixel art).
You can check out more about that game and see the graphics style here...
https://garbenjamin.itch.io/garsdefensegame
I am already starting on the concepts for my next 2 games so am looking for one or more people as soon as possible. I like to get things done!
Okay... what else... OH! I am also thinking about starting a second business for art assets. Basically I would pay an artist to create sets of art and then I would market it and sell it and I think I can set up a split here at itch to also give the artist an ongoing 10% share of all sales. Yes I am familiar with working with artists so I am trying to structure things in a way that will work best for you and me. I believe in being completing direct & honest so let me say right here I don't know exactly when this particular art asset venture would start but I will get to it sooner or later. Ideally I think I would structure the second to fit in with the needs of the first as much as possible.
Yes this is all completely legit. I have hired artists before and I pay only by Paypal. But I am also open to discussing the possibility of actually teaming up. Normally I don't do that but I have had some artists bring it up in the past. So I am open to discussing that too if that is something a person is interested in.
Basically I just need people who are going to be serious and stick with a project through to completion. Other than that we should keep it all fun and not turn it into a real beast of a job.
Thanks for taking the time to read all of my rambling. If you are interested please DM me on twitter.
- Gar