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Budget: $500 - $1,000

Introduction:

My name is Todd Grubbs. I'm a hobbyist Developer of iOS apps. I have 2 apps in the App Store. One of which I just finished working with a designer hired from a posting on this site to rework all of the in-game graphics. It’s called Word Charades and the new version is pending review by the App Store. My other App, Flag Wars is being re-written from the ground up to leverage Apple’s Turn-Based APIs. Due to the success I had hiring a designer for Word Charades, I am now looking to hire a designer to do all the visuals for Flag Wars.

App:

The app is called Flag Wars. It’s based off the old board game “Stratego”. If you’ve played that game you know the functionality of this app. If you haven’t, it’s a really fun game for strategy buffs, but it was somewhat difficult to implement on the iPhone’s small screen, and difficult to take such a complex game and make it work for a turn-based scenario. I have some interesting deviations that remedy those issues though.

Artwork Needs:

It’s a universal app so all images will need to be provided 4 times. 1x and 2x for the iPhone, then 1x and 2x for the iPad. I can provide the rudimentary images that I’m currently using to build out the game. These images, will give you the size/location of the critical game assets. With the exception of the location of the game “Grid” and the dimension of a game tile, everything else can be changed.

Here is a link to a read-only google doc that describes each image that is required for the app. I will be adding the name of each image that I expect the artist to use when naming the assets they deliver to me. A few of the images have a specific size requirement due to movement/collision logic. I'll update the document to reflect those as well.

Here is another link that to a zip file for some screenshots of the app in its current form with my placeholder images so you can see an example.

Timeline:

I’m still building out the game, but I am about 80% complete with the coding. I would like to make it available in mid to late September. I would expect the following timeline for this project:

Phase 1: Overall Design Theme – 2 weeks.
Phase 2: Delivery of approximately ½ of the actual assets – 2 weeks
Phase 3: Delivery of the 2^nd half of the actual assets – 2 weeks
Phase 4: Icon Design and cleanup of previous minor issues – 2 weeks

There really aren’t a lot of assets involved in the project so I suspect there will be quite a bit of slack in this timeline. I do this as a hobby so I don’t expect much more than an hour of work on an average night. If you end up working faster than that I would still like to spread out the phases to give me time to incorporate your new artwork into the game and test.

Working requirements:

This is the 2^nd time I have contracted a free-lance artist and based on previous experience I have the following requirements:

1. You must have at least 1 iOS device capable of running iOS 5.0. Having both an iPad and an iPhone is a plus.
2. We will use a shared google doc to track the delivery of assets.
3. For this project you must sign up for a test flight account so that you can build and run the latest builds of the app and see your graphics and how they appear in-game.
4. You will be paid using Paypal.
5. You will be paid at the completion of each of the 4 phases, in amount equal to ¼ of the total amount of your agreed upon bid.

6. At the end of the project you will need to deliver the source files for the assets you deliver so that I can make future modifications if necessary.
7. You are free to use the art work you deliver in any of your own portfolios and/or websites etc.

Bids:

If you are interested please email me at toddgrubbs@me.com and include:

1. A link to your portfolio. Showing me work for iOS specific projects is a plus.
2. Your bid for the project, including the amount, payment schedule, and proposed timeline if your timeline requirements are different than mine.
3. What iOS devices you currently own.
4. A phone number, Skype Contact, or facetime contact details.

I’ll be accepting bids for about a week, at which point I will close down bids so that I can review them, schedule a follow-up if necessary, and make a selection. I will inform all bidders once I make a selection.

Thanks
Todd Grubbs
Toddgrubbs@me.com
http://www.grubbsiedev.com