Hello! (We are writing this job description... it's not AI!)
Who are we?
We're autotroph games, a 2-person Seattle-based team creating an indie game called Haunted Heist, which we've been developing since last summer. It's a 3-10 player PvP Horror Comedy game where you haunt your friends!
Here's our website.
Here's our linktree.
Here's the most viral piece of shortform content that we've made ourselves.
Haunted Heist is an upcoming PC game that is currently ranked within the top 1,000 most wishlisted games on Steam, with nearly 50,000 and counting. We think we have a viral hit in the making on our hands, and we need some support to get us over the line.
Who are we looking for?
We would like to work with someone part-time to help us make content that is going to pop off on socials! We have a goal of reaching 100,000 wishlists before our late-summer release, and we're interested in a creator who is able to produce viral shortform video content for our social channels (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) and respond to community outreach on those platforms as well as on X and Bluesky.
If you have incredible video editing chops, can cater to the kind of gen z brainrot humor which is trending on these platforms, and are able to understand our game, the genre that it sits in, and how to show it off stylishly or hilariously, then you are our person.
We're thinking of this as a summer internship or contract, but it can extend beyond to match with our game's release window.
We see this as a great opportunity to get marketing experience on a game that will be out in the world very soon. Our amateur shortform production has already resulted in 10s of millions of views across platforms, meaning that our project is primed for success with your help!

autotroph games is an indie studio based out of Seattle, Washington, formed by developer Jakob Herlitz and designer Dominic Giardini. The two became friends in middle school, started making YouTube videos soon after, and somehow ended up across the country together.
Jakob works as a Software Engineer at DoorDash, and Dominic was most recently on contract at Meta’s Reality Labs.
They’re making Haunted Heist so that they have something fun to play with Jakob’s 3 brothers every Wednesday night.
Haunted Heist is a round-based PvP horror party game where Heisters race to collect gems in a procedurally generated mansion while Tricksters use chaotic abilities to derail, harass, and scare them away from victory.