NLA.com is seeking talented 2D artists for a classic arcade game project on Apple iOS.

Game targets include:

iPad and iPhone with Retina support

Positions include:

2D background artists

2D sprite artists/animators

Please reply with experience, samples (links ok) and availability.

These are paid positions.

Thanks!

Are you looking for hard edged pixel art?

I just thought I better warn anyone working on this game about the employers. This is the first time I’ve ever had to leave negative feedback after being active on these forums for several years now, I may not post too often in the rest of the forum but I get plenty of requests for work from my profile (http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11063) and believe I am very professional when dealing with clients. If I didn’t I wouldn’t be able to afford to eat.

That being said I was chosen to work on the tilesets and layout of this game and produced these two mock ups for the menu screen and main gameplay screen.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/matwek/TrackMockUp.png

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/matwek/FlagMockUp.png

At which point I was offered a so called contract and statement of work and went on to produce the tileset needed to create this full-sized screen along with menu selection including all 20 flags from the G20, an animated highlight flash to show country selection and a full font for in game text.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/matwek/ScreenShot.png

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j260/matwek/CountrySelection.png

It was at this point that I was informed that my work was “unusable” because…

“Flags were not their top priority” – even though the Statement of Work had no such priority listing and flags weren’t’ the only thing I produced.

“Not happy with the samples” – Even though they saw the original samples long before I started updating them and increasing them in size

On numerous occasions I asked for feedback on my work and if I was going in the right direction and each time I either received no reply or got another question rather than an answer to my own.
Whilst I do believe they feel like they are a professional set up and do have work to prove that is the case, there attitude towards me has been very unprofessional.
Basically if you can give them exactly what they want, when they want it, and how they want it without being actually told then you’ll probably be paid.

As for me I’m now down $2000 as I got dropped from this project after a months’ worth of correspondence and work.
If anyone might have a use for the tiles I do have then drop me an email (matwek@hotmail.com) and we might be able to work out a discount on the stuff I have.

Edited by Matwek - 21 March 2012 at 8:26am