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Position Details
About the Project
The Rope is an atmospheric co-op horror game set in 1500s England, where players step into the role of a barred priest searching for the missing archbishop deep within a haunted forest.
Developed in Unity 6, the game focuses on immersive outdoor environments — dense woods, foggy clearings, and eerie moonlit lighting — blending realism with a stylized visual identity.
About Isto Inc.
Isto Inc. is a small, independent Canadian studio made up of three full-time developers. The Rope will be our fourth commercial game, following a series of creative, story-driven indie projects.
We value experimentation, tight collaboration, and growth!
We’re also flexible — this position is ideal for an experienced developer who may already be working full-time elsewhere but wants to take on a side role helping mentor a passionate team and shape the look of our next title.
The Role
We’re seeking an experienced Technical Artist Mentor to guide our team in leveling up our rendering and visual art skills.
While we’re strong generalists, we have limited experience in technical art and want to build a stronger understanding of Unity’s rendering pipeline, lighting systems, and stylized shader development.
You’ll act as both a mentor and collaborator — helping us identify learning paths, setting our rendering approach, and assist with implementation of technical features that elevate our outdoor environments.
What You’ll Do
Must Have
Nice to Have
Tools & Stack
To Apply
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Isto Inc. is a Three-Man indie dev team based in Canada. We're the creators of Disjoint, Atrio and our newest game, Get To work.
Our Philosophy
We live by one rule: Make amazing games. And also don't be jerks.
So technically two rules. But we're all about breaking rules cuz we're bad like that. So technically we could make a mediocre game just to break the rules but so far all of our game(s) have been amazing.
Get To Work is a punishing, yet satisfying experience about a young man on a mission to conquer the corporate world... on rollerblades. Maneuver a slippery character with rollerblades on both his arms and feet that only knows how to move fast.
Atrio: The Dark Wild is a survival game set in a cyberpunk inspired post-apocalyptic world. Bend nature to your will by capturing and exploiting the creatures and environment to help you survive at all costs. The many threats and challenges you will face are too difficult to handle on your own, you must build, automate and optimize your systems to keep the world at bay to stay alive.
We’ve been lucky to have some incredible jobs working at and partnering with some of the biggest brands in video games.
But we’ve never had more fun and been more fulfilled than when we were working with indie game developers.
Everyone in games should have that much fun.
Our hope is that Work With Indies will connect job seekers with the most rewarding, most inspirational, and most fun jobs they've ever had.
