🔧 Important Details

• Role: 2D Game Designer (Educational Focus)
• Type: Contract-to-hire preferred
• Location: Remote (United States)
• Commitment: ~20–30 hrs/week, flexible
• Start: ASAP
• Rate: ?

🧠 About Us

We’re building a new kind of learning platform—Brilliant.org meets nonfiction books—turning powerful ideas into beautifully simple, interactive games. Our goal: help people master big ideas by playing with them.

We’re not making “edutainment.” We’re building games that teach through mechanics—that reward curiosity, challenge assumptions, and make ideas stick.

🎯 What You’ll Do

• Design and prototype 2D mini-games and interactive challenges that teach core ideas from nonfiction books
• Turn complex ideas into playable metaphors
• Create simple, clear, and elegant game mechanics that convey insight
• Collaborate with developers to bring your designs to life in mobile-first environments
• Help define the visual and interaction style of the platform
• Design for engagement, learning flow, and user retention

🔍 What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a 2D game designer/developer who has experience building small, thoughtful games—ideally with some experience with React and React Native.

You should be:

• Comfortable creating simple game loops, interactions, and feedback systems
• Experienced with rapid prototyping and iterating on gameplay ideas
• Ideally familiar with or excited to work in React Native (with or without Expo) to bring those games to life on mobile
• Passionate about games that teach, games that explain, or just weird little games that make people think

Whether you’ve built a puzzle game, a simulation, or an interactive story—we’re looking for someone who understands how to express ideas through play, not just polish visuals.

✨ Nice to Haves

• Animation/motion design skills
• UI/UX experience for educational or mobile games
• Familiarity with cognitive load, scaffolding, and learning frameworks
• A love of books and turning “a-ha moments” into interactivity

🌍 Why Join Us

• You'll shape the look and feel of a new genre: nonfiction learning games
• Fully remote, async-friendly team
• We care deeply about user experience and learning outcomes—not ads or engagement traps
• This is a chance to build meaningful, delightful games that make people smarter every time they play