u/BirdyJim

Hello, I'm an indie game developer and I'm looking for a 2D environment illustration artist for a game project. No AI use for any commission.

I would need 8 illustrations of cities and natural landscapes, all of them having a "fantasy" style. League of Legends' cities and regions artworks (Demacia, Noxus, Zaun etc) are a good example of the style I'm looking for, althought not as high in quality of course. As for the natural landscapes, typical fantasy forests, mountains, with magic elements etc.

Please, only message me if you have several fantasy illustrations of cities/landscapes in your portfolio. This excludes realistic modern city illustrations, I'm not looking for that style.

If you don't have what I described in your portfolio, I'll consider that you didn't take the time to read the post so I won't take the time to answer you, sorry. And do not tell me "I've never made it but let me prove you that I can by making a test commission" either, please.

As for the game itself, it'll be an online PVP game, with a gameplay similar to Final Fantasy Tactics but with unique heroes to play, like in MOBAs.

If you're interested in working on the project with me, don't hesitate to PM me and we'll discuss the details more. Thank you for your time!

Hello, I'm a game developer currently creating an online PVP game and I'm starting to look for soundtracks to add to the matches and to some menus. This is my first game, I have no experience in buying musics and I need some guidance as I have many questions and specific needs.

BUDGET AND PRICES:

The estimated total number of music by minutes for my project is around 110 minutes. This is because matches in my game will last up to 45 minutes on average and I'd like to not have any music loop for these 45 minutes, to have 3 soundtracks (early game, mid game, late game) that last around 15 minutes each. Or one full soundtrack that lasts 45 minutes. And I'd like to have two maps at the game release, each one with different tunes so 90 minutes already. Adding to this, some background music for the opening game menu and some background music for the different regions (from the lore). About 110 minutes in total. Removing one map is a highly possible decision so I might end up needing around 55 minutes in total instead.

Now, I've already found the programmer and the artists who will work with me on that project, and the cost estimation for their work is already very high. I'm planning on getting funded for all the expenses as I believe the game will be profitable thank to the the artists' high quality, the game mechanics and lore designs, and the marketting plan (working heavily towards skins, cosmetics without shoving it into player's mouths). The fund would come from a loan from the state from my country but first they have to validate my business plan and I believe the budget is already pretty bloated and I can't bloat it even more with the music otherwise I'd be at risk of having the fund refused and overall to not be profitable with the project.

With that being said, high quality music is still essential for my project as musis is what gives all his identity to a game and allow the player to enter another world! Without good music it's surely gonna fail. Sorry as I'm about to sound like a terrible person but I'd like to know if it's possible to find high quality music for a cheap price. I've read on some other posts about pricing that some artists will be much cheaper because they want visibility etc. To be honest I'd like that, and I believe they'd get a lot of visibility from the project. I'm also completely okay with putting their names at the top of the credits if that's allowed. Followed by the artists' names.

MUSIC SELECTION AND LICENSING

I'd like to get more informations about how to go about finding the right music. I think that I want to proceed like this; listening to different artists and choosing some tunes that I'd like to buy for the project. I don't think composing custom musics would work because I'm not looking for anything specific to be created on demand, just for tunes that I'll like right away if that makes sense. Is this a viable option? Are there artists who have a wide variety of tunes available that nobody else has used and will not use? This brings us to my last point; licensing and rights.

I'd like to know more about how licensing works and specifically what would be the best approach/type of licensing for my case. I'd simply like to pay artists to use their music in my game indefinitely and without anybody else being able to use it for a commercial project but I'm still okay with other people using the music for anything non-commercial. Obviously credits would go to the artist and I don't care about "owning" the music as long as the rules I mentioned are in place. I also wanna add that I surely want people who are streaming my game on Twitch or YouTube to be able to do so without the music shutting down because of a misunderstanding with the licensing and rights.

Finally, with all these informations, I'd like to know where to look for artists. Recommendations for the best websites/libraries according to these specific needs. Thank you in advance for your help

Hello, I'm making an online tactical PVP game with many unique heroes to play. I'm looking for a 2D concept artist to create all the game models and animations.

The game would be 2D pixel art and visually very close to the RPG game Chained Echoes, with the sprites appearing tall to allow for greater details. Same style of animations too. Also, the game being a tactical working with square tiles, the character's movements would be tile-based and 8 directional. I'll also need terrain, background details.

I'm going to receive a lot of DMs, so if you choose to contact me, I'll ask you to already have something pretty close to what I described in your portfolio, please.

For the game release, I'm planning on having 20 heroes and to have about 5 more ready to be released soon after. Then if the game works great, we'd work on many other heroes as I already have 70 heroes ready. Also, there'd be some neutral mobs, about 10.

Every single hero will have a minimum of one skin coming with them, and some skins will have special animations. Some heroes have pets/summons that need a complete work for themselves as if they were distinct heroes.

I've already found a skilled splash artist for the project, so you'll be able to inspire directly from his artworks every time to create a hero. This includes the basic artwork + the skin artwork.

Thank you for your time and feel free to DM me if you're interested in working with me