Greetings,
Note: Please read over this job description carefully and only respond if you are able to meet the below criteria. Thank you.
We are a startup children’s educational group in need of games that will be aimed at helping children with special needs. We are looking for the right talent who can help us design and code the flash games. If you are a designer and not a coder or vice versa, that is ok, we would still like to know about your talent. We would prefer to work with one person, but if need be we can work with a team of a designer and coder to create these games.
The games we are looking to create must have a certain uniform look and feel to them. In other words no matter which game is played (there will be exceptions) the person will know that this game came from our group. So in other words we plan to have certain characters that will appear in the games every now and then, a tree in one game will look like a tree in the other, the way the houses are shaped in one game will look like the way they are shaped in another etc.
The games that we will create will not be complex. Since they are for kids who have suffered traumatic brain injury, autism, have vision problems, have various attention deficit issues, and who have other related life skills needs, the games will be simple, basic, and with few graphics so as to not cause confusion to the children. Another important feature will be that the games will need to span the entire height and width of a player’s computer screen that way the game will envelope the child’s visual field.
After looking at many graphical styles we would like the graphics in the games to have the same look and feel as the ones you see here:
http://www.childrensillustrators.com/illustrator-details/leshar/id=390/
Starting off we would not need any characters. We want to create a large series of function games at first, and then later create games that have creative elements like characters, transition animations, etc. Also please note as you look at the above link, we are only looking for the same look and style. The images that you see above are too intense and too much in each frame. Again, we will never very clutter free graphics so the child can focus on the task at hand.
Please note, for these games the transitions will need to be smooth, not jerky. I found a web site with graphics similar to what we are looking for, that has very smooth transitions. We hope to accomplish the same kind of transitions and movement with these games. See here for an example: http://tripta.com/
Also for the audio, we want the audio to be as clear as possible, as flash games will allow. We want to try to avoid the typical scratchy sound you get with a lot of flash games.
As for the games, for an idea of the kinds of games we are looking for (but much better quality) please see this site: http://avenscorner.com/flashgames/avensworld/avensworld.aspx This site has a few games made specifically for kids with autism.
Here are a few game sketches of games that we are going to need:
A Tracking Game
