I was directed here by my girlfriend to look for some freelance work doing game design. First, I'll explain a bit of what I can do:Game Design and Balance: I say I'm a novice here because most of my knowledge is self-taught, without any "official" documentation. I've been assisting a couple of my friends in designing a tabletop RPG system for about a year now, and in an effort to improve my skills I've taken a couple of online courses on the subject of designing well-balanced games. I tend to be the numbers guy, so if you want any statistics or metrics analyzed I would be more than happy to help. Example: Collecting player feedback from a demo and breaking down the data to identify areas for improvement. I can also help tweak your gameplay ideas/concepts and set up player reward schedules (by which I mean identifying key places to give players achievements/items/other progression rewards).
Side Skills
Programming: While I haven't done anything with ren'py, I have done some programming utilizing pygame. While I would have to brush up a bit on my skills as well as explore the ren'py engine more fully (something I'll start doing this upcoming week), if you need someone to take a look at some code I'd be happy to assist in whatever way I can.
Editing: I can edit grammar and awkward sounding sentences (unless that's how your character happens to speak, of course).
Like I said in the title, I am willing to take on either free or paid work. I am happy to be brought on board for any combination of my skills, even if the main one isn't included. This applies to both commercial and non-commercial projects. Paid is always preferable, but as somewhat of an untested element I'm mostly looking for a project that I've worked on to be finished and released.
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