To tell you a little about myself, my name is Zen. I'm part of a 3D art dev team that primarily freelances on the Unreal Engine 4 forums. My team is developing a World War 2 game called "Our Ghosts of War". You can check it out here: forums.unrealengine.com/showth…. I'm the lead designer for that project but as I just finished writing up the game design document for that game I have a little bit more time on my hands.
As such, I wanted to do a smaller follow-up project while my team continues working on "Our Ghosts of War". I've decided to work on this visual novel project. It's about a group of five friends who go on a ghost-hunting expedition only for things to go horribly wrong. I think your art style would be perfect for the kind of horror tale I want to tell. I've already hired a coder to work on the project and just need to land an artist to start work on the project.
My budget is limited as I said though and I wanted to ask if you were flexible to a upfront payment + royalties deal. That's how a lot of my crew is working on the project. I want to start-up development on the game very quickly so that we can have it ready for the launch of the Nintendo NX. I feel like we can score a ton of sales if we're one of the few early launch titles and make a lot of money together. I estimate we'll probably do something on the scale of 20,000 sales. If we sell the game at $20 per copy and you take 20% of all profits that would mean $80,000 in earnings for you. We're aiming for the same market that made games like 999 and Zero Escape a success.
Please let me know if you think we can work something out.