Hello, my development team and I are currently creating a shareware game, and we need 1 more pixel artist in order to complete the game.

This position will mainly consist of background and GUI design- building interiors and exteriors, for the most part, are needed, as the game takes place in an open-world city in which all buildings can be entered. In addition to buildings, the menu buttons, various logos, some 640 X 480 Backgrounds, small tilesets, and a custom font are all that is required of you.

Our development team is currently composed of 8 members- programmer/designer (me), a main spriter, a character spriter, a composer/musician, a sound designer, and 3 voice actors. The project we are working on is an open world action-adventure game, with environmental puzzles, a complex combat system, a comprehensive platforming engine, tons of set pieces, a completely voice-acted script, and much more.

Here's some samples of the graphics if you would like to get a feel for the art style (note: animation and general skill don't have to be quite this good; the art style has to fit in, though):



This position will pay roughly 13% of the game's total profits when it is completed (this is not payment on a per-sprite basis). If you are interested, please send me a PM with a sample of your work.

Edited by Waldo - 06 July 2010 at 8:42pm

There's too much info. Basicaly what an artist must know:

- platform (and example dimensions of sprites)

- view (side/top-down/isometric/etc...)

- preferred style (similar to...)

- theme (space/jungle/fantasy/...)

- deadline

- how much he will get for each sprite.

Artist will consider delving into details only after he knows these.

That's weird, I thought I followed it pretty well...company info, extemporaneous...job info, check...salary info, check...email address, check... company website, under construction...previous projects-aha, you got me, although I didn't realize that was such a dealbreaker, so it's edited in now.

Wait a second there- if I do that, no decent spriter will ever look in this topic, and some spriters are happy with this form of payment, proved by the fact that I already have one that has agreed to it. It's also a lie- this job will pay, it's as simple as that, so telling me to change the way everyone views it to unpaid just because you feel that you wasted 2 seconds by looking in here or that you don't like the payment form isn't fair to me or to anyone that's interested. Beyond that, there's a 100% chance that this game will be completed: I've never started a project that I haven't finished, this is my 8th game, I've never cared as much for one of my creations, it's already got months upon months of work piled on it, and it's been planned and organized to the nth degree. If you and dirteater could stop bullying this topic over non-existent issues, I'd appreciate it.

Edited by Waldo - 27 February 2010 at 11:20am

I don't feel angry so much as a little pestered, so I can't be too much calmer.

Funny, I thought that...
Oh, weird...

That's why it's explained in the topic. I would imagine that anyone serious would read it, so it seems quite superfluous.

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Nobody is picking on you, it's just that we have noticed you keep changing your first post in order to attract more people. We are just saying there's nothing wrong with the info its just that people coming in are expecting upfront payment.

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Eww, speculation salary :c  Just saying, if I were to sprite for you, I would only do it if I were paid for each sprite.

Whoops, forgot the check the date.

Hey, I was just pointing it out and trying to suggest that he should pay for each sprite :<

Updated 7/6/10