Hello, pixel artists! My name is Travis Terlinden and I am the programmer, founder and "business guy" for Metrognome Games. We are a team of two at the present, a programmer and a designer, with a sound designer/musician on deck to help when needed. Our project is a 2D strategy RPG in the vein of Shining Force and Fire Emblem and we're hoping to find an artist so we can get away from using the art from those two games.

Metrognome is currently not able to pay anything, as calling our budget 'shoestring' is quite overestimating the situation. Our ultimate goal is to find someone who's willing to work with us as a member of Metrognome Games not only for this project, but for any others we do in the future. We want someone to help come up with the art direction and the general look & feel of the game and be a true part of the team. Although payment isn't a possibility at the moment, we do plan on revenue sharing when the game is released. Any further financial matters have yet to be discussed. Percentages/amounts can be discussed with anyone who's interested. If that's not possible, we'll look to bootstrap enough to get some basic assets done in order to Kickstart and use those funds to pay for a contractor.

Mind you, we're not looking for someone to work full time, and it's barely part time. Both of us have full time jobs and families, so we're working on it in our rather limited spare time and we wouldn't expect an artist to use all their time for this either. The initial goal is to have the following items so we can get the word out better and work on a KS pitch:

• A few character sprites with walking (3 directions), idle and basic attack animations;
• a basic water/grass/path tileset;
• and a single 1v1 battle background like what's found in Fire Emblem. The final requirements will be determined when we get further along in the design process;
• Possibly some basic HUD/UI stuff for in game menus & a title screen.
  

You can see some screens of what we're working with so far, at facebook.com/MetrognomeGames. We don't have a real site, but hopefully that will be remedied sooner rather than later.

So, if you're interested, feel free to PM me here, send a message to the page on Facebook or shoot an email to MetrognomeGames AT gmail.

Latest dev video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpRweJJhbjs

Edited by Metrognome - 20 February 2013 at 9:41am