Tabula Rasa is a roguelite deckbuilder set in an elegant monochrome world punctuated by vivid elemental colour. We’re looking for a UI artist to help define a clean, stylish, highly readable visual language for this complex tactical game. 

We’re primarily looking for UK-based candidates, due to contracting, tax, and potential funding considerations.

Key Challenges

• Defining an elemental colour palette that doesn’t look busy or discordant
• Creating a stylish and distinctive feel while remaining elegant and clear
• Making the complex gameplay systems legible
• Grouping and presenting information with a clear hierarchy

Artistic Overview

Tabula Rasa is a 3D game with an angled top-down view that gives the player a full view of the current hexagonal combat grid (or non-combat "encounter"). Character scale on screen is therefore fairly small.

Each encounter is a diorama surrounded by a dense but minimal environment that varies by biome - for example it could be a dense forest, a cave, or something more abstract like a misty void. 

Scope of Work

In this first phase, you will be responsible for designing and creating a mock UI based on a comprehensive style guide and the existing game prototype, which will be layered over concept art to allow us to evaluate our planned visual direction. 

A successful engagement will lead to further work refining the mockups into a complete UI design, ready for us to implement in-engine.

Selection Criteria

We are looking for an experienced UI artist who can deliver a bold UI design that simultaneously injects substantial personality and style into our game, while also making the complex gameplay concepts easier for players to digest. 

Required Experience/Skills

• Located in the UK
• Strong Graphic Design
• Typography
• Information Hierarchy/UX
• Colour Theory

Desirable Experience/Skills

• UI Design for shipped games
• Cost effective UI designs based on clean, modular, and reusable components

Timeline

We aim to commence work before the end of May, with deliverables completed around the end of June. However, for the right candidate we have the flexibility to extend these timescales.

Budget

This is a short-term freelance engagement. Depending on agreed scope and deliverables, we expect a budget in the region of £2-5k, paid on a contract/invoice basis. We expect the budget for this phase to depend on the proposed level of fidelity.

As a further guideline, we anticipate spending in the region of £10k on the entire UI design, assuming that we will own the in-engine implementation.

Next Steps

If you’re interested, please email with the following:

• Your portfolio
• 2-3 pieces most relevant to this project
• Your rough pricing expectations (fixed price or day rates) 
• A short note on why you think your work suits Tabula Rasa

If it looks promising, we’ll follow up with more details and schedule an intro call to explain more.