Project Information:
Zezenia is a medieval 2D tiled-based fantasy MMORPG, the sprites "lean" to the left 45° (if you can't imagine, the screenshots will show what I mean). The sprites are quite okay, but nothing a veteran would be proud of, thus the need of spriters. It has been released since since August 2008 and is still running, with the servers(1 European, 1 American) having been paid already for several additional months - in other words, the money that we earn is big enough to pay the our servers. Those servers are no expensive high-end expensive (yet), but certainly enough to cope with several hundreds of players online. Since the beginning, the game has developed rapidly and while there were only around 5 players online on one server, we now have 100 players on an average base. Our goal is to provide an enjoyable game for all of our players, as well as earning some money with it (not enough to pay us a living yet, all the money we've earned so far is not even an average monthly salary, taking the server cost into consideration that is). In the future, we plan to expand the game further and add more features to ensure a stable and interesting product for all of our customers.

Team Structure:
Our team currently consists of four members which are all living in Europe. A coder(17) who is leading the project, myself(17) who is responsible for most game content as well as sprites, a mapper(21) and a quest writer(22). We're all working on a free base, but as we're all very interested in making the game better, most of us spend hours working whenever they can - motivation is definitely not a problem, if it was, the project would have died already.

Game Information:
You start in the temple of Culthan, only equipped with a knife, a bag and some meat. You can now start slaying monsters, solving quests, upgrading your character, collecting items, hunting bosses in a party and basically do everything that a good MMORPG should have. Also, we're aiming for lots of roleplaying features to make the game more interesting, such as smithing, tanning, herbalism, alchemy and more. Besides, you will be able to study ancient or recent texts in the libraries all over the world of Zezenia. The map is fairly large and steadily getting expanded. We're working on the game daily and the progress could be rapidly accelerated with new pixel artists.

Requirements:
As stupid as that may sound, there are basically none. If you don't consider yourself good enough to create qualitative sprites for us, you can just register at the forums and work as a freelancer until you feel good enough to join. If you have previous experience with pixel art in general (perhaps even with our uncommon perspective), you are welcome to show us some examples of your work and we will decide whether you can join or take part as a freelancer. The game sprites are 32x32 up to 128x128 sized textures as ground tiles. Monsters, items and environmental sprites also have sizes of either 32x32, 64x64, 96x96 or 128x128.

Screenshots/Videos:
Note that the video quality is rather poor and most screenshots/videos may not be absolutely up to date.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2eo8dgl.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/2j47aer.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/a1lo1v.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUXy3eR0cGA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjTN8zKIA3s&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mb992VYroM&feature=related

Necessary Information:
If you became interested in helping us out or just want to get more information about the game, you're welcome to do so:

Website: http://www.zezeniaonline.com
Forum: http://forum.zezeniaonline.com/

The best way of contacting us would be to drop a line here or at our forums.
Thanks for your attention.