PocketMatrix

You are absolutely correct with the pre-drawn avenue. I have found a big load of squat. I managed to get 1 person for the sound end of things, he has done work for Mountain King Studios, on their game DemonStar (it was best shareware award a few years ago).

Finding an art guy is whole different story, I've spoken with a number of different people and they are either full of it (here look at what I did and scanned and it's some pencilling from their school notebook) or they keep saying they don't have the time (so why'd you msg me in the first place...o_O )

In anycase sort of discouraging, but I've found alot of other forums to post at and am hoping for more replies.

Cheers,
Robert

I recently found the following site while looking for meshes. It also has 114 sound effects & plenty of other stuff. I'm paying for custom meshes for the main ships in my game but for some of the non-important background stuff I'm looking at free or cheap meshes

Wow that's some impressive work and a great resource, way out of my pocketbook range though. Thank you though Conan, some of that stuff would be great to incorporate into future projects when I get this one off ground zero.

(Very impressed with that work, just amazing.)

Just as a sidenote, the cost of supplying artists with software is enough to make a grown man cry, anyone found a way to offset that kind of overhead? (Don't start emailing me to give you software )

Story of my life:

I find an *awesome* sound guy...
Everything is green for go....

ICQ (You know that 'uh oh' sound)
"I have a prior contract I am bound to, it might take 2 months or more...sorry" doht!

Hey no hard feelings I completely understand...doht!...grumble grumble...

ok look on bright side...I found a really *awesome* graphics guy and he's actually interested woohoo

...(scooby doo time warp a few days later)...

...dangit, he's already working on another game...doht!

..hrm..computer getting slow..computer acting funny...computer no turn on...hard drive smell like cooked circuit board...doht!

So nearly a month later after finishing design documents, sketched concept art, and bugging the absolute crap out of everyone, I see now that I will have to enroll in art classes at the college next semester and learn to play music with some of the marching band drop outs.

Ain't life peachy! Yummm....peaches....

The one word that could definitely describe the last two weeks would have to be: Doht!

If you buy me a MIDI keyboard I'll do the music for you... hey, it's cheaper- no wait, easier- no wait, simpler- no wait... uhm... than taking a class! ... ahh

I did have a brief look at it, and it does some of the things I mentioned.