Posts by Alonso

I had completely forgotten about this thread! Thanks to everyone for their kind comments, I appreciate them very much! This Kickstarter has been an incredibly exciting experience, although it's made it a bit hard to keep up with everything that's happening.

kpitna03 The position has already been filled, but I really appreciate the disposition and friendliness. I totally forgot to post about this, sorry!

Thanks for the replies! The position is still open.

I'm looking for 35~40 different enemies, but as Chaos said, you'd only need to code their particular movement cconditions (graphics will be done by someone else), and you'd either use an already-coded subpixel engine or optimise it and use that. Most of the enemies will be composed of single-sprites, so it's only about getting the movement to feel great/interesting and different for each enemy.

The only other thing that would need coding from scratch would be making a skeletal system similar to Spine/Spriter (to be able to Please login to see this link.). Obviously not just hardcode the movement of each boss with events, but have a system that reads and interprets actives' positions/rotations/scale/frames from a text file that can be modified later on.

I think 5-6k is a pretty good rate. It'd take 2-3 months working even less than half-time to allow you to have other jobs (most indies do), but if you wanted to be done quicker you could do it full time.

The way we'd work is:

1)I'll give you a part of the game's engine in .mfa format with the player's movements and skillsets so you're able to test the enemy in the environment it's designed for.
2)You'll then code the enemy behavior on a blank .mfa and import it to the game's .mfa (or design it in that same .mfa if you prefer that route). You'll make all the adjustments necessary so the enemy behaves well in the engine and does what it's supposed to.
3)Once you're finished with a batch of enemies, you'll send the .mfa containing them back to me so I can extract the objects and group code and paste it on my own .mfa.

Did I answer those questions? Let me know if you need for me to elaborate on something.

Decoamorim That example you sent over is a bit vague and hard to judge (it's just a video taken of a phone with a floating jellyfish?). If you have any examples of enemies done for a platform game, preferably that feel like something from Castlevania, that'd be great!

Hello!

I'm developing a game called Heart Forth, Alicia (Please login to see this link.), a Metroidvania RPG about a young wizard girl on her journey back home. Heart Forth, Alicia is done in the style of the 32-bit/Playstation era games like Xenogears, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Final Fantasy Tactics, and has an elaborate story that's experienced in the metroidvania genre.

I'm looking for someone that's heavily experienced with MMF to code all kinds of enemy/boss behaviors and patterns for a Metroidvania-style game (someone that knows algebray/trig, can take advantage of all of MMF's functions and is used to building custom engines). I've already made a movement/physics engine for you to build enemy movement with, but you're welcome to modify it or create your own if it's more efficient. Obviously, we're looking for someone to custom-code these engines and do it without extensions or default movements.

The budget for th position is around $5000-6000 USD for about 2-3 month's work (depends on how many enemies need to be done. Also, deadlines aren't too strict.). It's very important for me to be able to stay in touch with you through e-mail or Skype on a day-to-day basis. We'll start working around mid-May or early June. You'll also interact with a couple of sprite artists that will do the graphics for the enemies you'll code.

If you're interested, send an email to mail at alonsomartin dot mx or andrew.silverm at gmail dot com with a sample of the work you've done. If you're able to show us something similar to what we're asking for (Castlevania-ish SOTN/Order of Ecclesia bosses and enemies), you'll easily grab our attention.

Here are some animated screenshots from the game:
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Most of the enemies are done in Symphony of the Night style: they need to be coded to be affected by gravity and move in sub-pixels according to a description we'll hand you for each enemy. Bosses will be more complex and multi-staged, and some will need to be coded with bones/pivots.

The code for player interaction with enemies is already done, so this is basically just about making the enemies move around in a fun and engaging way.

Thanks for reading!

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Spriting requires almost no talent, just a lot of time and practise. You should start now that you're young.