Hello! Thanks for giving this a read! The bulk of what I have to say has already been said in this post here so go there for information about the project itself; this is more of an update with an additional need we've discovered.
The only thing which has changed from that is that we're now a team of 4 people (Myself [programmer/designer], WonderMeow [VFX/asset artist], thefreezemusic [SFX/Soundtrack composer], and Lv42noob [script writer]) and we require an additional artist to join the team in order to speed up the development process so that we actually have something tangible somewhat soon. What we need in an artist is a 2D sprite artist (not pixel art), and preferably able to work in flexible styles to match the current artist's style as closely as possible; example here
One thing which I didn't mention in the original post is that we're eventually looking at starting a kickstarter project, at which point payment will be offered both for the work already done and work to do in the future. Until that point, however, work will be done for free (with little to no time expectations as I understand doing work for no immediate payoff might be not worth dedicating all your free time to).
Hope someone out there resonates with this, I'm really eager to get back into a rhythm with working on this project!
Crimsonnin2