UI/UX Designer Contract Position for Experimental Video Game

Overview

We are a small indie team making an unannounced multiplayer, voice-focused game built in Unity. The experience plays like a choose-your-own-adventure NSFW radio play or interactive erotic audio book. The visuals are exclusively on-screen text, buttons, menus, icons, etc. There is no character art, world art, etc.

We’re looking for a UI designer with good UX design knowledge to help us craft the visuals, animations, and interactions from the ground up. This is a collaborative role focusing on inventing new interactive interfaces, particularly around dialogue and on-screen text, rather than refining existing conventions.

Design Direction

  • UI the star of the game’s visuals, not a passive overlay, and is a responsive, tactile system with presence
  • Text is especially central, expressive, and visually dynamic rather than static or purely informational
  • The UI should match the sexy playfulness of the narrative and audio of the game

Responsibilities

  • Design a cohesive interface for a two-player audio-driven erotic game with original interaction systems that depart from standard dialogue choice buttons and subtitle conventions
  • Create expressive and dynamic text treatments that support tone, pacing, and player emotion
  • Build modular button systems and reusable UI components
  • Develop multiple-choice option layouts in varied configurations
  • Design icons and visual elements that communicate player expression
  • Collaborate closely with designers and programmers to bring experimental concepts into functional systems

We’re Looking For Someone Who

  • Has a willingness to experiment 
  • Strong UI animator
  • Can prototype quickly and has an iterative mindset (design thinking process)
  • Is comfortable designing text-forward interfaces
  • Is completely comfortable with explicit sexual content, explicit language, queer narratives

Nice to Have

  • Experience designing for text/audio-driven or experimental games
  • Strong interest in kinetic/expressive typography, interaction design, motion graphics
  • Experience designing systems for player expression
  • Experience implementing in Unity

Position Logistics

  • Full time (30-40 hrs/wk) contract position (approximately 2-3 months, with potential extension)
  • Remote work (Potential opportunity for an in-person work sprint for several weeks during the project)
  • $5,000-$10,000 a month rate commiserate on experience

To Apply

  • Please provide a resume and portfolio with examples of relevant work experience.
  • In the body of the email, you can optionally include something informal and human-written about why you are a good fit for this job. 
  • Email the following at: hello@deeppink.games with the subject line “UI/UX Designer Job Application”