Introduction

A small team has been developing a prototype of a turn-based adventure game, something like the original Zelda, but with turn-based combat, similar to Fire Emblem or Shining Force. The project has been using a custom engine built in the MonoGame framework using C#. Roughly 250 – 300 hours of work have been contributed to the project thus far, with over 100 of those hours being programming time. I estimate that the prototype is about half finished.

Since the project is being developed as a hobby in people’s free time, contributors come and go as they please. Currently, however, the project has no active programmers, so the contributions of the remaining team members cannot be put to good use. We are therefore seeking a programmer to salvage our project.

I am open to having the project ported to Unity, Godot, GameMaker, or any other engine or framework that doesn’t cost us any money and doesn’t degrade the game’s performance if that is the desire of the new programmer. However, that porting would potentially add to the workload of whoever takes on the programming role.

Key Details

This is a hobby project and development proceeds somewhat slowly. As the pixel artist, I am able to contribute about 2 to 4 sprite frames per week, meaning I am about a year away from finishing my role in the project. The composer is one of our most productive team members and is pretty much done with everything we have requested of him thus far. All code contributed is licensed under the MIT License. The target audience for the gameplay of this project is E10+, so we are avoiding age-inappropriate content, such as humans killing each other, disturbing torture, stealing, deception, blood, suggestive themes, nudity, offensive language, and the use of alcohol or tobacco.

Gameplay Video

Creative Samples

Trek of the Valiant by Anton

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kkZt2PMtWWwEQWkR2bIyPKNQOgTUM2z0/view?usp=sharing

Weighty Moves by Anton

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sopwc-y6YoZwv-VybB1Qor6J9_Uo3Fw/view?usp=sharing

Battle Animation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h9LH3K-imq-2KsAqsYMz2e2pxXtrju_R/view?usp=sharing

Contact

If you are interested in working on this project or would like more information before you decide, please reply to this post or send me a message using the following Discord link within the next 7 days (by 8/13/24). https://discord.gg/GcjRzvUM