We are looking for a Technical Artist to bring together the visuals of our JRPG project in Unity 6.

This remote short-term role requires someone who can:

• Design and implement visual solutions for the game, in collaboration with other artists and programmers on the team.
• Build 2.5D environments for combat and overworld scenes.
• Create and manage materials and shaders, post-processing effects, and render settings.
• Produce simple 3D objects and animations as needed (e.g., flipping pages of a book)

It is a contract position expected to last two months with compensation of $500-650 per week and can be done part-time. Upon completion, you can request the next contract and contribute to the production of the assets you will have helped design.

If you are interested in the project but are worried about any of these details, please note that in your application: we value quality, and can negotiate over everything else.

The contract start date will be January 5th.

What project

We are building a mystical investigation game about a murder at a UK university: think social sim (like _Persona_) with a bit more action in combat and a lot less dungeon crawling (pub crawling may appear).

Our game is about stories people believe about themselves, each other, and the world around. The player lives through the academic year, navigating the all-too-rigid categories of academic subject and year, gender and archetype, declared beliefs and performative actions. Public perceptions and collective anxieties turn into physical creatures, spill into the town and haunt the streets. The player will have to stop them.

We want to elevate this experience with surreal and theatrical decorations, placing our Spine models into 3D environments. In combat scenes, that means stage lights to elevate the drama, and visual effects. In the overworld and diegetic menus, simple 3D props to interact with the 2D UI elements.

(See a brief style & gameplay document here.)

The project has completed an early production phase: we know our core mechanics and story, our UI is in a good spot, and we have strong concept art for the main characters. Now we are starting to build game assets for a presentable core loop.

Skills and requirements

Please apply by clicking the apply button and filling out the Google form.

Required:

• At least 2-5 years of employment working on Unity games.
• Simple 3D modeling & animation skills.
• Experience creating materials and shaders in Unity.
• Links to your resume and portfolio.
• Link to a short supporting document or folder.

Please, attach three samples of your work that seem particularly relevant to this project and give a short summary of why (just a couple of sentences). What makes you proud of them? Why do they come to mind when thinking about this game?

(For example, a video of an environment you built & a summary of what solutions you used for it, how resource-intensive it is, etc.)

• Bonus 1: experience creating font materials for TextMeshPro.
• Bonus 2: experience designing UI elements and motion.