I would personally ask around here, if you can't find anyone there. If you're planning on doing this in Unity or Game Maker, you don't need a pro. Shmups are really simple to set up with a pre-made engine, probably the easiest possible action game genre to do it.
I am not exaggerating when I say that anyone who has taken a basic programming course around here could probably make your game in GM or Unity for you. So do consider that as an option if you're dev friends are asking too much or are not interested.
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Squire Grooktook
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Aeon Zenith - My STG.RegalSin wrote:Japan an almost perfect society always threatened by outsiders....................
Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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Any update on this? This really looked incredible and I'd hate to see it fall by the wayside
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You're teasing us with this beautiful art! I'm looking forward to seeing this in action.
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tiaoferreira
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WOW! Excellent arcade marquee!
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pixelcorps
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NECROBUMP.
I took a year away from the game, My dayjob was killing my soul and I was getting pretty down about it all, started skateboarding again to channel some aggression..
Got a new job, working on a pretty high profile game.
Code has been ported to another engine. Working every spare moment I can get to try and get a vertical slice done for mid 2018..
Gave up looking for a character designer, was getting ignored by every single artist I wanted to commission, and I also learned a lot of Japanese character designers retain the righs so they can take a cut on merchandise and sequels, so I am also doing the character design myself..
Game will be 31khz cab friendly (15khz will probable be too heavily downscaled) , maybe will rescale all art for 4:3 HD tate and see if we can get an arcade release if it rocks hard enough?
I took a year away from the game, My dayjob was killing my soul and I was getting pretty down about it all, started skateboarding again to channel some aggression..
Got a new job, working on a pretty high profile game.
Code has been ported to another engine. Working every spare moment I can get to try and get a vertical slice done for mid 2018..
Gave up looking for a character designer, was getting ignored by every single artist I wanted to commission, and I also learned a lot of Japanese character designers retain the righs so they can take a cut on merchandise and sequels, so I am also doing the character design myself..
Game will be 31khz cab friendly (15khz will probable be too heavily downscaled) , maybe will rescale all art for 4:3 HD tate and see if we can get an arcade release if it rocks hard enough?
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It's a shame to see what they did to their own engine. Construct classic was, if you ignore the fucked up runtime, really nice, from a user perspective.pixelcorps wrote: Code has been ported to another engine.
2 and 3 are useless garbage with no stable deployment options.
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Squire Grooktook
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Have you considered a western artist?pixelcorps wrote:Gave up looking for a character designer, was getting ignored by every single artist I wanted to commission, and I also learned a lot of Japanese character designers retain the righs so they can take a cut on merchandise and sequels, so I am also doing the character design myself..
Here's some fan art, from the character designer I've hired, as an example of her level of quality.
Here's some work from the monster designer I've hired, this will be sprited and used in my game.
Neither of these people charge more than 30-100 for individual concepts and designs.
Aeon Zenith - My STG.RegalSin wrote:Japan an almost perfect society always threatened by outsiders....................
Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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pixelcorps
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Thanks for the info! I may as well do the whole thing my self as a matter of pride, I can probably get some illustrator friends on contract to brush up my art, as opposed to being overly picky and micromanaging them to do exactly what I want.Squire Grooktook wrote:Have you considered a western artist?pixelcorps wrote:Gave up looking for a character designer, was getting ignored by every single artist I wanted to commission, and I also learned a lot of Japanese character designers retain the righs so they can take a cut on merchandise and sequels, so I am also doing the character design myself..
Here's some fan art, from the character designer I've hired, as an example of her level of quality.
Here's some work from the monster designer I've hired, this will be sprited and used in my game.
Neither of these people charge more than 30-100 for individual concepts and designs.
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Damn! I was going to ask to see if you potentially needed any help with gruntwork/coding etcpixelcorps wrote:Thanks for the info! I may as well do the whole thing my self as a matter of pride, I can probably get some illustrator friends on contract to brush up my art, as opposed to being overly picky and micromanaging them to do exactly what I want.Squire Grooktook wrote:Have you considered a western artist?pixelcorps wrote:Gave up looking for a character designer, was getting ignored by every single artist I wanted to commission, and I also learned a lot of Japanese character designers retain the righs so they can take a cut on merchandise and sequels, so I am also doing the character design myself..
Here's some fan art, from the character designer I've hired, as an example of her level of quality.
Here's some work from the monster designer I've hired, this will be sprited and used in my game.
Neither of these people charge more than 30-100 for individual concepts and designs.
Hope to see this project continue; definitely looks like something special