I am seeking a talented video creator who can help create stunning cinematic movies for the upcoming browser MMORPG Orizaya: Sisters of the Stars.

Early gameplay:

ABOUT ME

OG product designer and software engineer who has worked in the San Francisco tech scene for the last 15 years.

Design portfolio: dribbble.com/bennyschmidt
GitHub: bennyschmidt (Benjamin) · GitHub

I have worked with brands such as Apple, Nike, DocuSign, Red Bull, and have contributed in open source to the likes of Brave, Odysee, Microsoft, Facebook (React), Mozilla, LlamaIndex, and more.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Lore: https://www.youtube.com/@orizaya/posts
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@orizaya/videos

Orizaya is an ambitious browser-based MMORPG set in a fictional, magical world in the Pleiades star system. The overall look/feel is that of a AAA themepark MMO (Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2) with WASD and mouse controls, animation canceling, low poly style, persistent world, raid & dungeon finders, and a battlegrounds queue with structured PvP across 3 different maps.

Though I have worked professionally on social games in my early career at companies like Facebook, FlipTrack, and Francis Ford Coppola Presents, and have released 2 offline RPGs on the App Store as a solo dev (Meteora and Blighted Souls, respectively), Orizaya is my first attempt at a highly ambitious MMO game that I’d like to involve other creators with.

The game is playable today, though there is still a lot to be done. Because it runs in a browser, I created a custom engine in Three.js (react-three-fiber) and am building pretty much everything in both the client and server from scratch, down to the physics. I’ve even created a bespoke Level Editing software to assist in building the world.

A lot of the lore is written or planned, and I’m able to accomplish a lot of the music, sound effects, and 2D/3D art myself through open source (Pixabay, Sketchfab) and modern AI tooling (Tripo, Vidu).

One area I am falling short, however, is video content. Take a look at some of the videos I’ve posted to the YouTube channel (it’s early, low risk): https://www.youtube.com/@orizaya/videos

I’d like someone to take over this role of video content creation and do it a lot better than I can. I’d love to move away from this “AI look” and have awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping cinematics like those you’d expect from a AAA title. I don’t care whether or not this person uses AI in their work - I may even slightly encourage it. But I am open to other styles (e.g. the way Guild Wars 2 does storytelling with imagery).

The aesthetic of Orizaya is “Victorian Spacepunk” - a mix between high fantasy / Victorian steampunk like you’d find in Final Fantasy or ArcheAge and dark sci-fi that you’d find in films like Dune.

ABOUT THE JOB

This is an unpaid, volunteer-only role. You will be credited on the title screen on orizaya.com for as long as the art is in use (and for a minimum of 4 years, even if I only use it for 1 day).

Work that I admire:

“Neural Tissue” by Gossip.Goblin - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-AusRkHFxfM
“Arthas - No Turning Back” by Avaren - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p0bLXaG49U

If you’re interested in producing some videos, please send me an email to support@orizaya.com with a little bit about you and a link to your work - thank you!