[Siletrea]

Yesteryear is a commercial game that is currently in development with a very small 3 person team
we are opening our doors for some extra helping hands in the development of this game
please consider the following before applying

everyone working on Yesteryear must be able to dedicate really good time to it and stay in near constant contact to the other team members especially the team leader (probably through skype and chat only for official reasons)

if your wanting to be a artist you have to be able to emulate a similar style to the asthetic of the game as to not clash to badly...this is a highly sought part of the team and is needed for parallaxing/background characters/fixing the asthetic in places/spritework/map layout and design

if your wanting to be a scripter you must be able to put up with overly creative people with little to no scripting knowledge who know exactly what they want and are more then willing to give visual examples and craptons of praise

if your wanting to be a eventer you must be able and willing to be a spellchecker...I'm sorry but the writer has terrible spelling...but they do try to tell the story...so spellchecking is a must! this is needed as to make the creation of Yesteryear go smoother and faster...and be less work on the other workers shoulders

if your wanting to be a writer...your sh*t outta luck because the story is already fully compiled...it just needs to be evented into the game

if your wanting to be a composer/musician then PLEASE send some of your original best tracks to Siletrea and Lunarberry ...this will help the process of choosing the best musical talent for the game to make Yesteryear sound as good as we need it to!
THIS IS A HIGHLY SOUGHT PART OF THE TEAM! we need epic music that makes people want to remix and enjoy even without playing the game to hear it

if your wanting to be a advertiser and get people interested in the game then you have to be able to explain the game without spoilers...this is a feat all its own so goodluck

you must also keep this in mind before applying to any position:

1: getting into the Yesteryear team is a big thing! as we don't want the storyline leaked

2: Yesteryear though it is a commercial game that will be hosted on steam has a budget of exactly $0.00...so anyone joining the Yesteryear team would be compleatly volenteering with no monetary pay whatsoever even upon compleation

3: all members of the Yesteryear team get a FREE copy of the game upon its release

4: all contributers to Yesteryear get into the credits...members of the team however will probably show up a few times in credits for different sections of the game

5: even if your good at 1 thing for the game if you have talent in other sections the team may need you to help pull some extra strings to keep development going

6: we are not slave drivers here! the Yesteryear team knows that its workers are human and have needs of their own! if you have a family emergency or are sick or are going on a family vacation then were ok with giving time off! healthy happy workers are best workers! but we do need hard workers! so if you apply please be willing to take the Mars Bar and do the extra 110% to make Yesteryear the best it can be!

7: the Yesteryear team is not a standard game development team with massively short deadlines and serious consequences...we like to set a few small deadlines but they're more to challenge ourselves to do our best! so don't feel to pressured for time

8: the Yesteryear team is almost constantly in contact and were pretty friendly people so plz be willing to be chatted with alot on development and such...we also love sharing screenies of progress...(the leader of the Yesteryear team loves progress screenies the most) we mostly use Skype for our conversations but we do NOT use videochatting or audiocalls ...everything is strictly chatbox

9: anyone applying for any part or joining the Yesteryear team MUST have:
A: a working commercially approved legal copy of RPG Maker XP (steam has it on sale on occassion if that helps)
B: have at least some good experience in RPG Maker XP (like making events and rooms and such...the ins and outs)
C: an awesome work ethic and or mild OCD for making things great (we like it when people give it their all while having fun!)
D: the capability of staying in almost constant semi-daily contact with an Autistic nerd over a chatbox
E: an AWESOME PERSONALITY! (game making should be FUN!)

apply today~

[MetalRenard]

Some advice looking for a composer:
- You could ask on Newgrounds. There are lots of beginner/intermediate composers and producers on the audio forum, however they tend to prefer a paying commercial project.
- Have you considered hiring different people to do different parts of the soundtrack and have a "lead" sound person to do the final mix to keep it consistent? You could get different types of music and a broader range of inspiration this way. For example, one person does all the "action" music, one does all the "chill" music, one does the main theme...
- Have you considered licensing pre-completed music from peoples' back catalogues? I know I have about 150 tracks that are sitting there doing not much at all these days. I'd be happy to go through the relevant ones with you as I'm sure another composer would.
- If you consider splitting up the job... I'd love to do a main theme. ^_^ Let me know if you're interested. I already have a game on Steam and I can sing, play guitar and write a vast range of genres.

[LunarBerry]

Oh very nice, thanks for the advice and offer :D Yea we have talked on the project's thread about accepting help for smaller things. We already have a main menu title theme, but if you mean a theme song for the game in general, we'd love to see what song you can come up for it :) Siletrea has a more specific notion on that so it may be better for her to reply on the type of music she wants the theme song to be.

So if anyone is interested in contributing but not be a full or part time member of the project, we'd be more than happy to accept small/single contributions, the only thing we could offer in return is credit and if the contribution is fairly large, a free copy of the commercial game or maybe even a cameo appearance of the contributor or an OC of theirs of their choice (for which a sprite of them will be made for the game ^^).
There is also a job listing that Siletrea posted that we currently do not quite need at this time in full context since (we don't have enough completed content yet), is advertising. We are more than happy if anyone is willing to throw out a few shout outs of this project or provide links to the YesterYear thread. The demo/thread itself right now is sort of an advertisement at the moment, but later on when we have enough decent game play we would need someone that can make trailers etc.
We are also willing to accept folks that want to work on specific tasks (like checking for grammar, general editing, etc.) as a full time or part time team member ^_^

[Siletrea]

still looking for people!

[Siletrea]

thank you MetalRenard for the two BEAUTIFUL tracks! Lunarberry and I BOTH love them so they're going into Yesteryear right away!