LFC - CDD - VD - a game project

[teNestoro]

Looking For Creators - Community Driven Development - Visual Desing - a game project

Version - Friday the 13th

(i will rework this text, because there is so much to say but i need to start to interact somehow and thats why i post a unfinished version so be patient with

first of all the TLDR:

I am searching for content creators that are willing to contribute to an game creation project, because games developed by companies maybe got the graphics but usually lack in fun, gameplay elements or end game content. Or in the words of a friend of mine: "They don't feel as if the creators would've played them themselves."

I want to create this game mainly because i want to play a game like this but there is none that is well done enough.

The content creators i search for are most likely animators or visual designers because i am a computer science student and feel capable to do everything else, of course i won't deny a helping hand but it should be doable without.

 

 

and here comes the long version:

Hello,

i am a german computer science student in my 5th semester, and play way to much games in my free time. If you want a list of those you can just name something and i would've played it. I played a lot of good games, but they never where a perfect version of itself. Older games usually lack in performance optics or just technology, while newer ones lack in actual gameplay.

We got now photo realistic graphics, processors that don't even sweat while running games and networks that can transfer immense amounts of data across the world in no time. All these things do get used by newer games but they rather keep reproducing instead of aiming for one final game that can be expanded and played until infinity. Some games also get ruined by developers that make horrible decisions.

Due to these reasons i would like to create a own game, It would be founded around the core i want to build up right now. I got a infinite story already, what should be capable of explaining 99% of the popular universes. I use it for my personal pen & paper creation, and the players love it.

I would say the goal is, to become THE medieval style MMORPG on steam, because there is none that can claim that titel for itself. The gameforge games are just cashgrabs and Black Desert just delivers Graphics and no other game is really big enough. Also these games have a lot of players that don't own a steam copy and i would recomment not giving out any other.

Nearer plans and what exactly are the aimed mechanics and features will be told once interest is shown.

Considering that i am a computer science student i feel capable of doing the required programming work! In fact i already created the basics, but programming is not the whole part. It also needs visual aspects to be done and there comes my problem, if i do that myself it will take ages until it is done or look horrible and that's why i create this post here. i search for someone who can create assets i can use for my project until there is something presentable. i got some of my friends to do that already but the speed it gets produced in and the quality the result has lacks in the required standards so i ask out to the modding community because i have seen some impressive stuff coming from you guys and you all are passionate gamers, that know what games need, so you could bring not just assets but ideas and other valuable goods to this project.

The artstyle i am aiming for is compare able, if not identical to the Dark Souls style. These games where beautiful masterpieces even if they get played down in ~100 hours and then there is just pvp left, also they kept doing some mistakes that made these games less enjoyable and they released new games instead of improving one, but in that case they had a technological reason to do so, atleast after DS1.

Same goes for Gameplay. If you need to know something that i would orient myself with play one of these games. The last one gave me the main reason to do this, because it was so damm short, even with DLC's (especial with DLC's).

As soon as there is a foundation i wan't to let the whole game run on community driven development, which will be close to "paid mods" because everyone can contribute but i would like to ensure that it has the quality it should have before it gets added to the game. Of course creators get paid for their contributions, but how that will work will be set in the future, regardless of the fact that the plan is already standing.

I don't hire because i want to find people that love what they do, and would do it for free, too. That doesn't mean you wouldn't get paid in the long term. Everyone who contributes gets something back, everything that is not used for keeping the project alive or me would come back to the content creators besides me. My main reason to lead this project is because i wan't to play the game!

This is still a very short text compared to the things i could say about the project, but i think the main point comes through: "I need Visual Artist, anyone is ok".

Forgive my confusing sentences and bad English, it is not my native tongue, i will maybe rework this post so don't mind coming around again to see if something changed.

~Nestoro