[Fallen Seraph]

Yo!

Fallen Seraph/Desert Rose here, leader of an online amateur Role Playing Game development project for the PlayStation 3 (It was for the PS2...till it was too late): Seasons of Sorrow. This post is to basically create hype and awareness of our project; and some place potential team members can learn of the project.

Savage Digital
Savage Digital is a team of six people as of now (One coder, one music composer/sound editor, and four designers). We are quite small but mainly because I was focusing on getting the story done and finding voice talent (before they dissapeared)...we have about 12 voice actors working on this project. Our goal: To create a Role Playing Game for the PlayStation 3 that we can be proud of and people will enjoy (and possible learn something from?).

Seasons of Sorrow: The Story
In Seasons of Sorrow, you take the role of Seth Locksley, a famous, but feared assassin who is suffering from memory lapses. When your friend, a leader of a rebel organization, offers to take you with him to the future you jump at the opportunity in hopes of finding archives of your past, and possibly answers to all your questions. You reach the future, but instead of your hopes being fulfilled, you are dragged back into a fight for freedom you had long ago quit; and given more problems and questions. While you search for answers, your girlfriend’s ghost comes to help along the road. Another girl who looks exactly like your girlfriend lives in the future but no one can explain to you why that is so; and to make matters worse, another girl appears who also looks like your girlfriend but they each have something which sets them all apart. The only resemblance they share is the deep look on their faces, in their eyes and their past. You control Seth as he travels to find the truth and avoid some mysterious stalker.

We Are Recruiting!
The reason for this post besides bringing awareness of our project is to find suitable people to work with us. Please take a look at our Recruitment page on our website, so that you know what our Criteria is for our members. The numbers in parantheses (x) indicate how many people we need for that post. If a post doesn't have a number, then it means it doesn't have a limit and we need as many as possible. This section has been broken into Art, Technicalities & Other to make it easier to find what you are looking for.

IN TERMS OF ART:

- Main Character Designer/Artist (1) The person we currently need the most. In order to give our voice actors something to work off of, and to help us pitch our ideas to investors or publishers.
- Secondary Character Designer/Artist (1) To help draw all the NPCs, people and stuff.
- Monster Designers/Arists (1) Will draw the monsters, majority of bosses and a few creatures
- Weapons Designer (1) Draws all the weapons
- World Concept Arists (2) To design the world/city concepts
- Storyboard Arists (2) What we need are people who can draw for us character/monster/Aegis attack sequences, FMV scenarios and stuff that will be worked off to create a complete animation/movie.
- Texture Artists (5) In order to help the animators and take a load off their work, we need Texture Artists to be the ones to colour and stuff.
- Character Modelers Character Modeling (All characters: NPCs, Important Creatures and Main Characters)
- Object Modelers Object Modeling (includes items and weapons as well)
- World Modelers City/World Modelers (Make the stuff you walk on...yeah..*cough*...right...)
- Vehicles Modelers Vehicles Modelers to model the airhips, cars, tanks, etc
- Animators Will do the real-time movement sequnces for everything
- CG Artists (5) Movies...and stuff will be done by these people.
- CG Background Artists (3) Draws the backdrops for the world
- Special Effects Artists/Battle Effects Animators (2) Creates all the special effects (magic and stuff) animation
- Menu Designer (1) Creates the whole look of the Menu
- Costume Designer (1) Yep, characters get to switch clothes later in the game

IN TERMS OF TECHNICALITIES:

- Game Engine Programmers (3) A tough job but you will program the Game Engine which will include stuff such as Night/Day Cycles; Weather Cycles; and others
- Battle Engine Programmers (2) You will program the Battle Engine, a complex system in the likes of Kingdom Hearts and Dragonball Z Budokai
- Enemy AI Programmers (2) You will be responsible for creating the enemy AI, you will be given a document on enemies that will help you program this
- Event Programmers (2) Program the game events and stuff
- Movie Programmers (3) Program the movies (should be simple enough)
- Mini Games Programmers (4) Program everything about the Mini Games
- Sound Programmer (1) Will be responsible for anything related to sound in the game (not movies)
- Menu Programmer (1) Programs the way the Menu works out
- 3D Map Programmer (1) Programs the 3D Map

IN TERMS OF OTHER:

- Sound Effects (2) Need people to create the sound effects (Such as Seth summoning his blades)

All these numbers are not definitive: some could be increased while others decreased. We really want to get started on the game, so please! Join up! No designer spots available se we already have enough/too many. Send all your applications to my email addy (posted below) with perhaps some examples of your work (not needed but will give you a better chance of being accepted).

Links

My Email addy (for applications and questions) - [email protected]
My Email addy (for friends, family, voice actors, team members, or applications) - [email protected]
Seasons of Sorrow Website (Update In Progress) - www.freewebs.com/savage-digital
Forum - http://s10.invisionfree.com/Es_Darkness
Check the website next week Friday for all the info - that is when the update will be complete...

Only send applications to the second email addy as a desperate measure. That's if I don't respon within three weeks or the addy is not working. That is all

- Fallen Seraph

[fov]

Welcome to the forum.

This doesn't seem like it'll be a freeware product when it's done (that's how we define Underground), so I moved your post into the General Gaming forum.

I hope you are able to find the people you need. Good luck with the project!

[squarejawhero]

Storyboard Arists (2) This could be a Comic artist; what we need are people who can draw for us character/monster/Aegis attack sequences, FMV scenarios and stuff that will be worked off to create a complete animation/movie.

Speaking as a professional, I highly advise you hire someone who know's what they're doing. "Comic book artists" are not storyboard artists.

I've been a storyboard artist for over 4 years now, and I know people in the animation with over 30 years experience who're still prone to making mistakes, and they're the best in the business. If you ARE going to hire people, at least hire people who specialise in what they're doing, so they KNOW what to do! Comic books don't have the same language in any way as storyboards.

Good luck, though.

[Fallen Seraph]

Sorry about posting in the wrong area. Uh, my mistake. Squarejawhero, thanks for the lookout, man, I see what you're saying.

[squarejawhero]

Hey, no prob. You guys seem quite young from the forums. But having seen what a teenager can do given 3DsMax, HL2 and a HDR renderer, I'm sure you'll do well.

Just buy yourself Shot By Shot by Steve Katz. You'll find everything you need to know about screen direction in there. It's quite a acedemic book, but if you really want to create the best direction you can in-game, you can do no wrong.

[Fallen Seraph]

The website has now been updated!! All info now up there. Thanks, for the info, squarejawhero.

[squarejawhero]

Hey, no prob!

BTW I'm writing an article on storyboarding. If you want I can forward you a copy when it's done.

[Fallen Seraph]

Yeah, sure. Please do.