Hi! My name is Matt and I'm an author who is very passionate about video games. This passion has led me to create a small team for a 2d top-down RPG with a unique turn-based combat system (it is very Undertale inspired, but very different) with the current title "Wordsage," about a novice magician whose words carry magic who has found themselves whisked away to a strange world. We've been working on it for about 2-3 years at this point. So far, I have done most of the art and writing, and all of the music. We are a team of three - me, a developer, and a concept artist/designer/marketing lead.
I will admit digital art is not my forte (I have been doing pixel art in Aseprite), and having a lead artist that can do either pixel art or any other unique form of 2d top-down art would be amazing. The art could go a few different ways I think, either by using the existing art as references, or taking it and modifying it to be in your style. I would still love to help with art.
Our developer is new to Godot but has learned quickly and already set up some good and essential systems for our game, but more core systems will have to be made. However, having another programmer/developer to join the team and potentially take the lead on the project would be an enormous help, as recently our programmer hasn't had as much time as he'd like to code more. He is still very much enjoying learning Godot and wants to continue to work on this project.
I know it's a big ask...joining a small indie team which can only promise rev share, but we really believe in this project and think we have a game (with a realistic scope) that has never really done anything exactly like what we've got.
PORTFOLIO: I have plenty of environment art, enemy and character animations, and icons/UI stuff to show. I have some SFX and about 5 tracks for the game already made (I use FL Studio). We have a rough demo for our attacking spell combat system ready to show, as well as basic movement and world interactions. I can also share our Google Docs game dev documents including a rough draft of the script. Here are two examples of my art/design for a boss/character on top, and a regular enemy on the bottom (they have other animations). https://imgur.com/a/orW8ZnN