iPhone VN TEAM: NEW PROJECT COMMENCING! RECRUITING NOW!

Syn3rgetic · 2009-07-09T02:56:52+00:00

ABOUT US: Hey, allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Calvin, I reside in Toronto most of the time and in Hong Kong and occasionally (from now on) in Tokyo. I am an Apple Approved iPhone App developer. I built a team from scratch using friends, school recruitment, and a friendly game of pickup baseball. (Not joking) iPhone VN Project Info Spoiler:Now this visual novel isn't your typical Leaf and Key type of visual novel. This game is built up from scratch, native to the iPhone. Let me tell you this, this game that we are making isn't some hobby for us. It's the real deal. Although we are all poor students/undergrads working part-time jobs to sustain our livelihood, this project of ours is more than a dream; it's coming into fruition. We started in February 2009. Me and my business/music guy were crunching numbers, calculating the feasibility of it all. The results were...optimistic. At the time, there had been no visual novel-type game released on the iTunes App Store. (GIFT, based on a PS2/PC eroge has now been released.) If we could hit the market fast, and make some impact, we could possibly have a business on our hands. Now its Feb 12th, 2010. How have we progressed? Let me tell you. Coding/Technical aspect: Programming 90% Script parsing/flags fully working. Scenario/Storyline: 20% FINALIZED. 100% Concepted! Music: More than 30 Original tracks completed. Art: 20% FINALIZED 30% Concepted. Now a little about the team, and about our vision. Satellite-Stage We fully plan to make this our full time occupation. To us, this isn't a game, nor a hobby. We want to make this sort of thing as a means to sustain our livelihood. We are all poor students and just-graduates that all put hours and hours of our spare time into this project. I, myself just spent $7000 of my hard earned money to buy a MacBook Pro to do art/program on, a trip to Japan as a means of studying their culture, and also buying lots of other supplies for my team. My other programming bought a Macbook as well just to help me with programming. We are not playing around, this is a serious attempt at getting into the industry. We have no money! Our only assets are the labor and time we spent into this project, and the fruits of the labor itself. Now, before the skeptics and realists decide to rain on our parade, I fully understand that this isn't going to make us into MILLIONAIRES overnight. That would be silly and naive. HOWEVER, having a game shipped, under your resume, is a HUGE thing for your credentials. Even if this team I am working with right now doesn't become my company in the future, I fully intend to work with a game company in the future. NEW PROJECT: INTERACTIVE MANGA! New Project recruitment starting! We are now starting a new project. Will need a lead artist that can draw characters well. The premise is an ultra-tear jerking interactive manga. Platforms: iPhone, iPad, Android, PSP Mini. Art-style: Instead of the usual CG style we see, it'll be more of a manga. So artist must be multi-faceted. (Close ups, different angles, group shots, action poses.) We already have a very talented background artist but if you can integrate that with your work, even better. We already have the entire script done. Themes are duality, romance, music, piano, tragedy. Manga will have roughly 10-15 chapters. 30 pages each chapter. Characters: 2 main characters, with several support characters. About this project: Essentially the same team as the iPhone VN minus the lead artist and side-writers. This time around we have a ground team in Japan that will help with localisation and ...*drum roll* native voice acting. The scale of this project is much smaller and we will have releases within 2 months if the recruitment process goes smoothly. Please email me: synsationATgmailDOTcom with your submissions. Now, I would like to introduce my staff. Spoiler:Calvin Chan, (me) Executive Producer, Scenario Lead, Technical Designer. Game Development and Entrepreneurship Student, focusing in Game Design and Business. University of Ontario. Institute of Technology Sing Chen, Lead Programmer Game Development and Entrepreneurship Honors Graduate 2009, focusing on game programming and modeling, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Graduate. Alethea Chan, Main Dialogue Scripter, Editor, Assistant Composer and Scenario Lead. English and Literature, University of Laurier Graduate Tonee, Lead Artist and Lead Digital Artist Open University, English Major in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Victor Le, Lead Composer and Business Analyst. University of Western Ontario, Accounting and Finance Studies. EDIT @ 2010 Feb 12. Colin dropped because Real Life got in the way. We appreciate his services for the group and he will be missed. EDIT @ 2010 MAY 29th. New Project recruitment starting! Disclaimer: Also this post was commissioned with permission from Jacob. This is not spam.[b]

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Syn3rgetic

16 years ago

Cross_Over wrote...

Syn3rgetic wrote...

Cross_Over wrote...

kaho17 wrote...

I've already seen them ! cuz my friend is Character Artist in this project " Tsubasa no onegai " , Tonee in FAKKU , and their work in this project is really awesome , They've already finished one act , Akane's path if I'm not mistaken ! Ruuu...

well it fine if they will only use 1 Character artist for the
whole series since "CONSISTENCY" is really important especially
for games like this. Viewers is easily catched by good artworks
then rest follows.

I still believe that "Eyes will judge first before the contents"

Yep, consistency is very important and we've been doing just that. We have different artists working on different things.

However the artist I'm looking for isn't for the same project. :P

pm me the details. Im quite interested and send me the timeframe for
each work you have then ill reply ^^

I've browsed your work and they are simply amazing. Honestly, based on skill you'll be in already, BUT! There are other things to be discussed. Can you please email me? Synsation@gmail.com

My MSN is also the same email address.

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

Huge update! Please read and apply!
New artists needed. New perks too?

Alex~kun

15 years ago

Gah... I'd love to join, but A) I'm working on another project, and B) I'm not sure if my skills meet up to... well, any standard.

Keep us updated though. I'd like to know how this all turns out.

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

As I said, dedication and determination are skills I want beyond drawing capability. If you lack skill in drawing/illustration that can always be learned as we go. Dedication, devotion are skills that take many many years to develop.

Alex~kun

15 years ago

Hm... I have a lot of space of time in between things right now, so I guess it couldn't hurt to try.

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

send me an email so we can chat =]

Alex~kun

15 years ago

Syn3rgetic wrote...

send me an email so we can chat =]

Done. Just sent it.

79a1d1f3baca0e223c5cafbe8

15 years ago

This sounds really cool I would like to participate in it.

Dirty

15 years ago

I'm interested, but as mentioned by someone else, my drawing is nothing special and then I really mean nothing special. I probably don't even know half the stuff about digital drawing. I do have dedication and devotion, but that really depends on the story, characters and art style we're talking about here.

Although I'm sure you can hire better people than me.

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

Send me an email, with little bit of info about yourself, some samples, and we can chat

Zak

15 years ago

I'd help, except that all I can do is color... and even that is sub par...or below sub par... meh...

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

Actually...I am in need of a coloring guy. Send me an email please!

deafblinddumb69

15 years ago

Nice avatar hehe

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

deafblinddumb69 wrote...

Nice avatar hehe

Zak

15 years ago

Syn3rgetic wrote...

Actually...I am in need of a coloring guy. Send me an email please!

Well you can look at my other color works and see what you think...

https://www.fakku.net/viewtopic.php?t=33827

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

I already saw it! I like it...I just need you to email me with your contact info and a little bit about yourself =]

Zak

15 years ago

PM'd you already... so yeah...

Gutter

15 years ago

Hi, I stumbled across this thread and I was wondering if you needed another artist. I'm something of an amateur, but I am pretty good.

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Remilia

15 years ago

[color=blue]I don't have an iPhone, but I'd be glad to help with the dialogue if that's possible.[/color]

Syn3rgetic

15 years ago

we are now recruiting music composers! Please email or PM ME!

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