Burning Ambition Part 5: The bigger nightmare of finding a concept artist

After months of writing documentation, discussing story lines, fleshing out quest, going over game mechanics and programming, you are ready to search for artists who will help bring your epic game into the real world through concept art and design. For a writer, and frankly the entire team, this is the time that most people look forward to (until the first Beta testing begins).

To be blunt, this is also the time that you want to pull out your hair and scream all sorts of foul words in various languages to the heavens…