Looking for game programmer (paid)

[Magical-Arts]

Alright so I'm looking for a programmer to team up with for a game I'm working on. It's a top-down shooter game (with short cut scenes to drive the story forward). I am sort of early in the development but felt I needed a programmer by my side. Since this is the first game I'm making I don't want to do some rookie mistake that will give me/us alot of extra work. (That said I'm not new to flash itself, been useing it since 2004)

About the game:

Working title (NOT final): Major Fish Hate

Story:

Ok so the basic outline of the story is that a shark and his daughter is out swimming. When suddenly some fisherman capture the kid. Daddy shark (currently named Major) swims after them but they anchor at a dock and he can no longer follow them so he mutates into a half man half shark and starts kicking some ass to save his daughter.

Gameplay:

As said before, top-down shooter, move around with 'wasd' aim with mouse, the usual (think crimson land) Theres also a bar that fills up the more blood you see. When it gets full you go in to a frency mode where you deal more dmg, move faster and possibly regnerate some health.
At this moment I'm unsure if you will have a wepon and upgrade it or if you will find different weapons. Also there will be some kind of leveling system, where you can increase diffrent things, dmg, mobility, improve the blood frency, etc, etc. It's still early in the development.

Some of the art to give you an idea what you'll be working with:

Mock-up of the gameplay (background is very much not final, neither is the UI):
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/4c94 8478508f8f6e87911374e0d03d9b
Character sheet, Major and first enemy:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/95b0 bac2e225b45463a8590a0a4afa72
Screenshot from the intro (cut scene):
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/114e c041d91128981f18370c2e8858c8

So what do I want from you? You have to have a great knowledge about either AS2 or AS3, I don't care what you use as long as things run smoothly :) You also have to have previous experiance with makeing bigger games (with bigger I mean not just a single day project). If you have made a top-down shooter game before that is a huge plus. If you've released a game on flashgamelicense before that's also a big plus, and last it's nice if your swedish, but that's a very minor plus ;D

About cash:
The game will be put up on flashgamelicense and we will hopefully get a sponsorship, have not used it myself but have friends that have used it and it has worked out just fine for them. Cash will be split equaly between you and me. If we have to hire someone else, let's say someone to make music the shares would be 45%,45%,10%, giving the music guy 10% and we would still have equal shares. (further details can be worked out if you want.)

I think that's about it, you can e-mail me at Magical_Arts(at)hotmail.com If your interested, just make sure to include previous work and maybe something about yourself in the mail!

Hope to hear from you guys soon!
/Mathias J.

[Magical-Arts]

A partner have been found, thanks to everyone who have shown interest.