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[CLOSED] [WRITER] [Fantasy adventure RPG quests]

A topic by Aika112 created Apr 24, 2024 Views: 306 Replies: 6
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Hi! The project is slowly moving forward and our team is looking for some help with quest design and dialogue narrative. Our goal right now is to develop a 1h Beta that we will publish as a demo. After this, we will look at how to approach the completion of the full game.  Currently, we do not have a budget. 

All members of the team worked on previous game projects before, studied game design, or worked in related fields. We understand this is a project with no budget, but we put a lot of work and passion into giving the best results possible and making this project a reality. Because of this, we are looking for someone who can work in a team, enjoy creative processes,  and have some experience in writing quests (any type of experience is welcomed)

In terms of story, there is a huge planning done already but there is still a lot of work to design the specific quests, some of the NPCs, dialogues, etc.

If you want more information about the project message me on my Discord: aika112

About the game

The Land of Lies is a story-driven pixel top-down fantasy adventure RPG.  The player will role-play as the main protagonist and choose how the story will progress and the speed at which they want to complete their adventure. The main objective is to follow the main quest and defeat the final boss, but the player can choose when to progress with the main quest. The player can choose to focus on the main quest, complete side quests which would increase their popularity in the village, play mini-games like fishing, decorate their house, or even just roam around the forest defeating enemies to increase their economy by selling the loot.


Short synopsis:

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.

Sounds like a great game.

Thank you!

So experience is a requirement I suppose? I've only ever written fanfic and some original works on the side so I'm guessing this isn't a fit for me? 

Hi! I am an artist and a storyteller, so I am able to write, the thing is by attempting to write the quests myself I discovered designing good quest is not that easy. The only reason that we ask for previous experience is to have some understanding on how do quests work and how their narrative affects gameplay. Although this is really subjective as even if someone did write quests before it doesn't mean they are good at it. The same way maybe someone who never did them but did a lot of writing and participated in game design can do an amazing job at it. This topic is really different form person to person so if you think you would be good at it you can message me on discord and we can have a talk about it.

Hi, I'm interested in this! Looks really cool and love her design. I write a lot of fantasy and concept quests in my free time and play too many games so in theory I know what good quests are ^-^ Question, are you looking for writers on just side quests or also the main quest/story?

Hi, thank you for your interest! We are looking for someone to develop on an existing world. We have the main character story and the base story for the game. What we need is a different type of tasks including:

  • Writing characters  > village NPC + enemies (only a few have a personality but there is a lot of them to design from 0)
  • Designing the main quest to help with the narrative-driven story immersing the player in the world, but at the same time avoids frustration and helps the player to feel rewarded/accomplished.
  • Write secondary quests based on the village NPC wallowing immersion into the world.
  • Being in charge of creating a balance between gameplay and narrative.

I am a concept artist/storyteller who loves giving life to ideas, but by attempting to write the main quest I realized that being able to create worlds and stories doesn´t mean Im good at making those playable and challenging. This is why we looking for someone who has previous experience as we putting our heart into this project and we want people to enjoy it as much as possible. We believe this part of the game is really important and want to deliver the best result possible. 

If you want to know more about the general story or any other details feel free to message me on Discord: aika112