Game Jam Winter Game Jam 4: Recruitment

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Welcome back to the Relic Castle Winter Game Jam! For a fourth year in a row, winter has settled in (at least in the northern hemisphere) and now it's time to jam!

For the uninformed: a game jam is an event where developers will get together and make a game. It sounds simple at first glance, but making a good game is much more difficult and time consuming than you might think. Participating in one is a great way to challenge yourself, learn new skills, and polish your overall experience as a game developer.

With eight summer game jams and three of the winter variety, game jams are a tradition for us on Relic Castle! Welcome to the newcomers, and welcome back to the returning game devs! I'm already excited to play through your entries! If you're interested in seeing what previous entrants have created, check out Fox's archive thread.

The fan game community has space for everyone, including you! Be proud of your hard work, but don't push yourself too hard! Overworking isn't fun and just leads to the jam scorching. Take breaks and keep a good sleep schedule! It's okay to have a half-finished game, as long as you've made friends, learned new skills, and most importantly: had fun!

Recruitment Thread

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Welcome to the Winter Game Jam recruitment thread! In this thread, you can seek assistance with your entry or volunteer your talents for another entry. If you're looking to do anything but discuss recruitment, please use the general discussion thread.

If you're recruiting or volunteering, please use the following templates. Keep in mind that you aren't required to have any progress on your jam entry before recruiting.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit:
• Jam Entry Title:
• Team Name/Team Members:
• Progress/Screenshots:
• Method of Contact:
• Timezone:
• Additional Information:

[Volunteering]

• Expertise:
• Examples of Work:
• Method of Contact:
• Timezone:
• Additional Information:

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Scripting
• Examples of Work: https://eeveeexpo.com/resources/authors/378/
• Method of Contact: Discord: Vendily#8084
• Timezone: EST
• Additional Information: I'm generally not going to be available to work on the project Tuesday evenings, Wednesday Afternoons, or Friday during the day. IRL obligations, you see. Any other time is fine though, and it works out if you have a task already set up :)

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Concepts and Spriting
• Examples of Work: check my twitter: https://twitter.com/GGEZ_Ali?t=gUdy3N3WN_a_iM5z7I9-7A&s=09

• Method of Contact: Discord: ali760#7871
• Timezone: GMT+4
• Additional Information: I've been waiting for an opportunity to join a jam in a while now and hopefully this time I'd succeed to participate in!

I usually work mostly on weekdays, and on weekends, it's a slow pace for me.

Initially, I thought nobody would be interested, but I ended up getting a couple of pms while I was asleep. Thank you for the nice messages! This thread really works, so please don't hesitate to post your own listing and/or get into contact with people!!!

[Recruiting]
Looking to recruit: Scripters
Jam Entry Title: Pokemon Recruitment
Team Name/Team Members: Me, bombastik18, Karthik_
Progress/Screenshots: Nothing has been made yet.
Method of Contact: Discord: Mega Greninja GR #4949
Timezone: GMT+2
Additional Information: This will be my first jam so I ask whoever might be interested to be patient with me if I am not that good at Fan-Game making yet. I just hope to have a little bit of fun and learn new things and meet new people along the road :-)

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Playtesting. As long as you don't force me to grind. Also can i map in rpgmaker xp, i prefer doing outdoors and cave maps, and prefer making maps no larger than 60x40 tiles in size. As well i can do some basic eventing. (I will not do any dev for you.)
• Examples of Work: None. As i haven't posted any work or worked on a team.
• Method of Contact: tilles#8747 on discord.
• Timezone: PST
• Additional Information: Do not expect me to be consistent with work. I will do things on my own massive amount of free time, but still it could take upwards of a week for me to get around to work as i am thinking about starting a long term project as well as getting into competitive pokemon. So i would prefer to join a team as a playtester compared to doing some mapping.

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Mapping (I guess?)
• Examples of Work: https://eeveeexpo.com/threads/5384/
• Method of Contact: bombastik#1883 on Discord
• Timezone: Central European Standard Time (GMT+1)
• Additional Information: I was the lead developer of last Game Jam entry Pokémon Hidden Altars – Harrison Story, I was also a playtester for Pokémon Infinity. I absolutely love mapping with some nice tiles, I also like to edit graphic resources (spriting, editing UI etc.), code basic stuff (like new abilities or moves) and brainstorm ideas. Besides working 8 hours from Monday to Friday, I have a lot of time to devote myself to a project where I can do a little bit of everything.

Edit: already working on a project!

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Spriting(Sorta Mostly Recolors), Map Making/ eventing, some scripting
• Examples of Work: my own game but I can show you more when you contact me
• Method of Contact: here or in discord Maurili#3672
• Timezone: UTC -3
• Additional Information: I am very flexible and very chill can do a lot of stuff

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: GSC-style Trainer and Character spriters
• Jam Entry Title: Pokémon Pyramid
• Team Name/Team Members: Only me
• Progress/Screenshots: Only these right now

• Method of Contact: Here or Discord PorousMist#6445
• Timezone: Central Daylight Time (UTC -5)
• Additional Information: Somewhat flexible, yet busy. Please let me know if you need more information regarding this.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: Gen 3 spriters, mappers and scripters.
• Jam Entry Title: Pokemon Simulation
• Team Name/Team Members: Seth.Phyr (myself), Hystrucgon
• Progress/Screenshots: Here's the title screen.
  Spoiler: Title

  
• Method of Contact: Discord (SethPhiroth#7016)
• Timezone: UTC-5
• Additional Information: flexible, available most of times.

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: sugimori style art, dialogue portraits, some sprites
• Examples of Work: examples
• Method of Contact: discord battlelegendblue#2557
• Timezone: PST UTC−08:00
• Additional Information: i have literally nothing to do most days as im taking a gap year. im available most of the time assuming im not sleeping. don't take it personally if i don't join your project as its hard for me to work on things that don't really interest me.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: Spriters (Gen 4 Overworlds / Gen 4 Pokémon)
• Jam Entry Title: Pokémon and the First Wish
• Team Name/Team Members: @Voltseon @KennyCatches @ENLS
• Progress/Screenshots:
  
  Spoiler: Screenshot

  
• Method of Contact: DM me, ENLS or Kenny on discord Voltseon#2012, ENLS#0001, KennyC#3093
• Timezone: CET and NZDT
• Additional Information: This is a pretty large commitment, it's not going to be anything small.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: Writer, I need someone who I can bounce ideas around with, so the plot isn't just crayons and paper.
• Jam Entry Title: Low Tide
• Team Name/Team Members: @Omega
• Method of Contact: Discord PMs, omega#6252
• Timezone: PST / UTC -8
• Additional Information: I'm mostly free exclusively to the weekends when it comes to making progress on core game files but am readily available for other matters.

[Volunteering]

• Expertise: Writing/worldbuilding, a bit of Essentials scripting, mapping, and spriting but I'm very inexperienced when it comes to those three compared to writing.
• Examples of Work: Unfortunately none (unless you want to look at my old D&D notes, available upon request), this would be my first project besides some fiddling with essentials.
• Method of Contact: Discord DMs, KINGU KURIMSON (Not the Boss)#2940
• Timezone: EST / UTC-5
• Additional Information: Mostly available on weekday evenings and weekends. Last week of the month will also be a hard nope for me working on much since I'm extremely busy with IRL things then.

[Recruiting]

• Looking to recruit: Spriter (Fakemon), Mapper
• Jam Entry Title: Pokémon Respect
• Team Name/Team Members: @PokemonRespect
• Progress/Screenshots: I've got encounter tables, trainers, and boss battles all planned out. PBS is ready for the fakemon I need, I just need sprites for them so the demo isn't placeholders.
• Method of Contact: DM me
• Timezone: PST but I work security overnight so expect to catch me at weird hours
• Additional Information: Fixing to make this a full game, maybe not the size of reborn or rejuv but I mean something big. You don't need to be along for the whole ride but your contributions will be appreciated and credited no matter how far we take it. I've also got what it takes to do the whole thing myself if I need to, so the game's getting made whether you help me or not. But if you help me, the game will be so much more amazing than what I could make alone. Let's make something godlike, fam.

[Recruiting]

• (Still) Looking to recruit: Playtesters!!! Mapping, Event Scripting, other positions may be considered
• Jam Entry Title: pre;Cognition
• Team Name/Team Members: Myself (Lead, Mapping, Programming, Writing, Music), my non-Relic friends Jenetics (Art, Writing) and Holo (Writing)
• Progress: Almost done I just have 1 UI left to do, a few storytelling images, and A LOT OF PLAYTESTING.
• Method of Contact: rainefall#8336 on Discord, ideally, however I will be checking the forums often if you would prefer to DM me here
• Timezone: UTC+00 (GMT)
• Additional Info: The game is a a hybrid between a "roguelite" and an exploration puzzler like Outer Wilds, with a time loop functioning as a major gameplay and story element as the player pushes through several areas to reach the ending, learning new things about the world around them with every run. This is certainly one of the more ambitious projects we have ever attempted, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Volunteering]

Expertise: Mapping, Writing, Gameplay Balancing, Testing
Examples of work: I did all of the balancing, writing, and organizational work for a fangame I published a demo of a while back called Pokemon Champions. You can check that out here. I'm also responsible for all the writing within the jam game Pokemon Ethos, which you can find here. Below, you can find a collage I did while working on Pokemon Verdigris of my map-making skills developing over my time as a designer.
Method of contact: NocTurn#1940 on Discord (I don't log in on mobile so it may be a bit for me to reply)
Timezone: EST
Additional information: I'm mostly looking to map and help iron out plot outlines, writing dialogue if necessary. I'm capable of event programming but I'm extremely rusty and haven't even worked in the most recent essentials version. But I'll make damn sure I find every single bug in the game if you'll let me playtest it. Also, I apologize on my tardiness, and if everyone's slots are already full I don't mind :)