Me
I’m Hamish Todd, a game designer/programmer and writer of plays, reviews, and essays. I’ve written for actionbutton.net, insertcredit.com, and Kotaku.


The game, Music of the Spheres
-Puzzle game with the premise is that you can throw projectiles that bounce. They keep moving as long as you want them to, and when they bounce, a glockenspiel note is played. The pitch of the note is dependent on the angle of the bounce.
-Obstacles are presented by angels, who are placed and programmed to make you think creatively about what to do.
-Built to express pleasing mathematical ideas, like Osmos and Portal.
-Level design has architectural sensibilities - emphasis is on clarity about what the player is meant to do, but the layouts are also meant to exhibit pleasing patterns and symmetries.
-I've been making it part time for 2 years. I am at the tail end of a degree, so from now I'm working on it full time. So far the engine is done and about 30 levels are designed; I plan to have at least three times that amount in the final version. Initial release will be on PC this time next year, probably android market after that.
-30FPS, native resolution of 400 x 240.


The Look
It's intended as a vision of what heaven would be like, for me. The whole game takes place in stained glass windows. The ideal is to be beautiful and reverential without compromising gameplay clarity.





What’s seen here is unfinished. The pattern currently on the glass is a placeholder and will replaced with some designs of my own. What is currently black I’m going to replace with a stone texture, to look like a church wall. The beginnings of the graphics are there though.


Your job
You’ll be animating the entire cast - don’t worry, there are only two characters! And you can see them both in the above screenshots: One man, 32x16 pixels (NES-size sprite), and one angel, 28x28. I’m asking for about 85 sprites, 20 of one and 65 of the other

I have decided on a lot of aspects of the characters, but there are some features I’d like to leave to you. The stained glass aesthetic will present you with some (possibly quite interesting) limitations though. Just ask if you’d like more details.

If you’re interested in the contract, send a quote and a portfolio to hamish {dot} todd1 {at} gmail {dot} com.

Edited by hamishtodd1 - 25 March 2012 at 5:51pm