Game1, Day 38 – Looking for a programmer for an awesome ninja game!

The game is a simple 2D reflex game for the iPhone and iPad, using the Cocos 2D framework. I will provide all art and audio assets! The game will need 2 versions, one for the iPhone that detects retina support for the iPhone 4, and a version for the iPad. I will provide appropriately sized art for each screen resolution.

The player touches his finger on the screen to make the ninja dodge throwing-stars and other items that fly toward him. As the time counts up, the game gets progressively faster and the player’s goal is to survive as long as possible!

This is only a brief description of the game, there’s an actual Game Design Document that explains all the details and has mock-up images and tables to make development easier. The entire game is already designed, I simply need a developer to piece it all together!

Key requirements and notes:

- Only Landscape mode will be needed

- I’ll require daily builds for testing purposes

- An animation parser built for Cocos 2D will be provided, along with the necessary files and documentation to use it (it’s a VERY simple bit of code, don’t worry!)

- The game will need a timer that counts up, displaying how long the player has survived

- The time will need to be recorded on an Apple Game Center leaderboard and the player should be able to send their score to Facebook and Twitter, so you should have experience integrating Apple Game Center, Facebook, and Twitter into an App

- Achievements should use the Apple Game Center as well

- It would be nice if the top player’s name and score were displayed on the screen during gameplay but I understand this might not be possible!

- A reminder for the player to review the game should pop up after the game is played a few times

- The game should use Flurry Analytics to track some anonymous game statistics

- Certain sound effects will need to play randomly from a list (for example when the ninja shouts, it randomly chooses between shout1, shout2, and shout3)

- A very simple menu option should allow the player to scroll through a list of all the sounds in the game and listen to them (just a default list like the ringtone choice in the iPhone’s settings is fine)

- I’m keeping a development blog of the game’s progress at http://www.bulletproofoutlaws.com/ which you can check out for more information on the game.

Please be available to work on this full-time as I need to release it as soon as possible. Also please have samples of your work. I’m looking for a developer who has experience with Games, not just Apps, because this will be more complicated than a menu-based Shopping List App.

If things go smooth there will be more work available in the future as I’m going to be creating a new game every month or so.

Type: Hourly
Workload: Full-time – 30+ hrs/week
Duration: Less than 1 month
Planned Start: March 1, 2011