Last News: I have received interest from pro and skilled talents regarding design and content development, now I'm looking forward to flash away3d or unity3d developers, and low poly 3d artists (technical minds with facebook development, social networks and smartfox or similar needed too)
My Bios: Hi there, I'm Nicolo, a professional web creative frontend developer currently working full time for a top 100 times enterprise company. My background is quite wide and includes few years of professional background in brand identity, advertising, publishing, packaging and supervision of junior staff. I have also a personal past as computer musician, singer and sound designer, great passion for fantasy and anime mmo rpg (started playing computer rpg late 80s) and japanese animation, sense of the big picture and creativity, some understanding of programming as I work daily with oracle and java developers but not a programmer myself we can say, and past personal studies in various field that makes me a good all-rounder art director who can possibly understand everyone, programmers, marketers, designers and musicians and create something interesting out of them. My approach in this project would be to combine it all, get a realistic picture and refine to a satisfactory product. Team name: I'm thinking about it as I like to plan carefully the brand identity of the project myself, develop logo, register domain, marketing strategy if I can create a group with the right people, eventually develop a uk-based start-up company when necessary. Project name: As above for the team name, I will define it all if I can get the right people, as I want it to be a unique name, short, fresh and marketable, if I see the light I will define it, register the domain and so on, so you can easily imagine, I cannot write it down at the moment. Brief description: At this stage, that's what I can write about it - Social Anime MMO RPG with flexible and interesting gameplay both for casual players and grinders (social based), easy to learn, minigames, cash shop revenue and adverts strategy to define. Simple, cute and addictive, with the best of this kind of games in a light 3d sauce, and some new elements I will discuss in the future with the team. It will go through a typical development, an alpha development and testing cycle, closed and open beta testing and published product. Probably connected with facebook platform and other similar to evaluate. Target aim: Target in order: asian teens, international market and not only. Cash shop items and adverts. I know the target personality quite well and if successful, it could lead to a good return. Compensation: It's an unpaid job with a % of the eventual profit or other to define, if successful could become good paid one as it needs ongoing minor development and maintainance being a social MMO. I think the job is mainly suitable for skilled but non-pro who wants to extend their portfolio or pro with stable job like me who wants to contribute in their spare time and create something interesting in their side- career. Interest in cute and fancy asian style, anime and rpg is essential for the designers at least, being chinese, korean or japanese is a plus. Technology: Target system is to discuss with developers, but I have in mind two major choices, a cross platform solution like Actionscript3/Away3d or Unity3D,and I guess Smartfox but I seriously prefer AS3-away3dlite based for its actual market penetration, light, low-poly but refined nice design. For the rest, up to the people in the team, but of course I would like to go with opensource products of your choice or at least save in a format can be opened with opensource apps, so me and the others don't have problem to open our work when necessary. Talent needed: - Game developers with Flash/FlexSDK/Away3D experience (I would go directly with the lite flash 10 based), or Unity 3D. - 3D Designers with interest in super-deformed anime modelling typical of chinese and japanese anime MMO, colorful items and environments. - Server side developer (smartfox?) for the multiplayer part to liaise with the flash game developers. - Musician with interest in asian music, understanding of asian music a plus, as it has typical melodies for the asian market, as this game could lead to a main theme song/video with a japanese singer or vocaloid, if you are proficient with japanese and vocaloid, you are my man. Eventually being a voice talent, I could tune my singing to female style and we can re-pitch it all. I have a recording set with condenser mic. - Would be good to have native english speakers in the team as I'm not, and I would need help to polish the content produced. - A business/marketing oriented person who can take care of the marketing, business and legal aspects in the late stage. - A creative content producer who can produce ideas and help me to expand the game, strong knowledge of anime mmo is essential, as well as understanding of asian culture and interests. Team structure: Nicolo - Art Director (Brand, advertising, web design, game content development, resources management and key decision maker) UPDATED: Something start moving but too early to define roles. Website: There is no website without a name first. Contacts: [email protected] At this stage I just need a brief bios/resume, your motivation and what kind of commitment you could give to the project, short or long term. Links are appreciated for audio/graphic artists. I don't mind if you can give 2 or 20 hours per week, I just need to know in order to plan. Previous Work by Team: None. Additional Info: None at the moment. Feedback: ANY
