Hiya,
after so many disappointments elsewhere, I come crawling here, hoping to find the right person amongst the Tigsource crowd.
I'm miguelito, I do pixel and handpainted graphics and am looking to create a very small, purely story-driven game. I have zero programming skills, so a coding guy would need to be found further down the road - but only with the story done, and finished, and illustrated.
I could imagine, for example, a "999"-style novel game, only with illustrations and text, and a few branches. That would be my ideal project.
But you see, this would require really good graphics, and above all a really good story. So as much as I long to find the right author, I have to post some severe conditions. These might sound really harsh, but it's just things I learned after dealing with numerous people calling themselves writers.
Please don't take them as personal offense, OK?
1.) You need to be able to write, and finish a complete story. I have lots of fancy ideas to *start* a story myself - that's not the problem. But you should be able to write satisfying, *closed* arcs with good twists.
And preferably even have something to show.
2.) I'm a very grumpy, sarcastic old man, and I'm honestly sick with clichés. So if you were looking to write anything standard-fantasy, teenage-angsty, or anything even
remotely involving zombies, then I'm afraid we wouldn't be the right match.
3.) To reiterate: I'm not a programmer, so I'm not looking to make a platformer, 3D shooter, RPG or anything involving even mediocre coding skill. Just still images, animations, branches, dialogue and brain work.
That's it, more or less. On the upside, you can write about whatever you like as long as we're both happy with it - I don't have any basic story I want to get done. I'm open to anything from Agatha Christie-style whodunits over alien dating sims in space to a luchador story involving puzzle fights.
And: If you've read all this, and even like the DS games Phoenix Wright, Ghost Trick and 999, you might just be the right person.
Thanks for reading!
Edit: And to prove I can do something with characters that are not mine, here's a few semi-relevant samples:
(No published character, but custom-made as a sample for a potential, never-realized game)
(John Charity Spring from the "Flashman" books)
(Doctor Bacterio from the Mortadelo y Filemon comics)