🧐 About Monokel 🧐

We are professionally playful. We love people who are kind and curious, who love to contribute their ideas and create games in collaboration with others. This is a place where people strive to create special projects and a welcoming environment together.

Our first game White Shadows, a narrative platformer, was developed by a core team of six, published by Thunderful & Mixtvision and won “Best Debut” at the German Computer Game Awards 2022. Now we’re 11 people and growing to around 15 to 20 over the next two years.

We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. This is a place where you can be(come) who you are, just drop us a line. Sometimes we don’t fit all the requirements, but we have other things to give, and we learn along the way 🙂

🎮 Our projects 🎮

• We like ambitious, polished games with emergent gameplay and coherent design, which are guided by a socially conscious narrative theming
• We dedicate a significant amount of time to develop and prototype ideas
• We value the time to polish our creations and turn them into something special
• Our current project is a metroidvania action-platformer, publicly funded and publisher backed for the next ~ 2.5 years of development

⚒️ How we work ⚒️

• Monthly sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams of two to five people
• 80 / 20 rule: Work four days on tasks, one day on whatever you want!
• Open communication culture where your input is always valued and welcome
• Zero tolerance towards racism, sexism, homo- or transphobia and other hateful mindsets

🏢 Studio Culture 🏢

• Professional, dependable setup – we’ve been around for more than eight years
• Beautiful, spacious office in the vibrant, diverse city of Cologne
• No crunch, 30 days paid vacation, public transport ticket, support your health (i.e. job bicycle, co-payments for a gym or similar), employer-funded pension assistance
• Like all german jobs: co-payment for public health/dental/vision insurance and pension