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Intrepid Studios is looking for a highly skilled artist to help create the best front-end interface possible for our game projects. The ideal candidate will harness their expert understanding of visual communication, hierarchy of information, iconography, color and typography to help make our players’ experience flawless.

Responsibilities:

  • Design mock-ups/iterations using Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, etc, focused on UI and gameflow
  • Creating appealing, user friendly, innovative and crisp game assets with a focus on usability and intuitiveness
  • Prepare and design all facets of the User Interface including: mockups, wireframes, icons, animations, UI style guides, general art and documentation
  • Create clear and attractive messaging, buttons, icons, widgets, and other UI elements which work well within tight fixed aspect ratios, and with a wide variety of game themes from cheerful and casual
  • Collaborate with additional designers on UI style guides for our titles to ensure product consistency
  • Work with engineering, design, and UX to ensure artwork is accurately and consistently represented

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years practical art/design experience working in interactive media and/or games
  • Graphic design skills: sketching, wireframing and storyboarding abilities on paper and screen
  • Solid understanding of UI design best practices and interaction design fundamentals
  • A strong understanding of UI conventions and challenges for the PC MMORPG genre
  • Ability to translate flowcharts and wireframes into fun, usable, visually polished UI systems
  • Strong desire to collaborate with UX, designers, and engineers outlining player flows and wireframes
  • Ability to produce high quality work quickly, iterating toward the best solutions
  • Strong passion for gaming

Additional Considerations (Pluses):

  • Have shipped 1+ AAA video game titles as a UI Artist
  • Previous experience with motion graphics, compositing and special effects
  • Previous experience with UE4

Required Application Materials:

  • Resume
  • Portfolio
  • Cover Letter which should include:
    • Why you are interested in working at Intrepid
    • What games you are currently playing