[Hobby] Recruiting Developers & Creators for Nova Frontier – Unreal Engine 5 Sci-Fi Project
I’m developing Nova Frontier, an original large-scale space game project focused on realistic fleet combat, exploration, politics, ship systems, and a story-driven campaign.
The project is being designed around large space battles where players can fly individual fighters or take command of entire fleets. Ships will have systems such as shields, armor, engines, weapons, power, heat management, damage, emergency systems, and repairs. I also want large explorable ships and stations with interiors, hangars, hull breaches, fires, emergency lockdowns, evacuation systems, and boarding battles.
One of the major locations is an enormous ring-shaped station surrounding a planet. The scale of the project goes beyond that station, though. I still need help developing additional ships, fighters, massive capital ships, planets, environments, animations, VFX, cinematic sequences, character models, voice acting, music, and eventually trailers.
The story begins in 2062 during a major attack on the station. The player is introduced to a galaxy dealing with both military conflict and a complicated political system. One of the central characters is the First Councilman, a powerful political figure who eventually becomes connected to a much larger threat.
The main enemy is known as the Digital Overlord. He commands enormous fleets and technologically advanced forces and has the ability to corrupt and control technology. The Overlord is also connected to a mysterious purple entity that was sealed inside the First Councilman long before its true purpose became known.
As the story develops, the seal begins weakening. Strange purple energy starts appearing, and the political leaders become increasingly suspicious of what is happening to the First Councilman. Eventually, five First Councilmen are brought together for a summit while a three-member Tribunal investigates the situation.
That is where I’m going to stop explaining the story publicly. There is a lot more involving the seal, the Overlord, the fleets, the political conflict, and what happens afterward, but I want to keep the second half private for now.
At the very end, after everything goes dark, one final message is heard from the Overlord:
Digital Overlord: “I’m coming.”
I’m currently looking for people interested in collaborating on the project, especially Unreal Engine 5 developers, 3D ship/environment artists, animators, VFX artists, character artists, voice actors, composers/sound designers, and people interested in helping create trailers and cinematics.
This is currently a collaboration project and I’m not offering paid positions at this stage. If you're interested, please contact me and tell me what area you work in and what you would be interested in helping with.Digital Overlord: “I’m coming.”
I’m also interested in making a 60-second cinematic trailer focused on the Digital Overlord. It would introduce his presence, his dimension, his fleets, and the threat he poses to the galaxy without revealing the rest of the storyline.
If anyone here works with Unreal Engine 5 cinematics, animation, VFX, trailer editing, music/sound design, or character animation and would be interested in collaborating on that 60-second Overlord trailer, feel free to contact me.
The trailer is optional, but I’d really like to work with someone who wants to help bring the Overlord reveal to life.Portfolio: I don’t currently have a completed public portfolio because this is my first time developing a project like Nova Frontier. I’m still learning and building the project as I go, while also trying to put together a development team. I can share the concepts, storyline, planned gameplay systems, ship designs, and other development work I have so far with anyone seriously interested in collaborating.