Game Artist (Core Gameplay)

2 Months ago • All levels • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Core Gameplay Artist at Wooga, you'll collaborate with designers, engineers, and other artists to create visually stunning game elements for their hit games. Responsibilities include collaborating with game designers and UI/UX to create a high-quality visual experience, developing and refining prototypes based on feedback, maintaining a consistent visual style, optimizing visuals for mobile performance, and working effectively within a cross-functional team. You'll need a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to create engaging gameplay elements, a solid understanding of design principles, proficiency in digital illustration software (Photoshop, After Effects, Blender), and experience with the Unity game engine.
Must have:
  • Strong portfolio showcasing gameplay element creation
  • Understanding of scale, proportion, material design
  • Excellent rendering and visual design capability
  • Proficiency in Photoshop, After Effects, Blender
  • Unity game engine experience
  • Effective cross-functional team collaboration
Good to have:
  • ZBrush and Substance Painter experience
Perks:
  • Relocation package
  • Home search support
  • Significant education budget
  • Extra days off for self-development
  • Yoga, mindfulness app, sports, and transport subsidies
  • Purpose Day
  • German language classes
  • Hybrid work model with option to work from abroad

Job Details

We are proud to belong to the TOP 1% of all employers in Germany 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024!


Our Story

At Wooga, we are very proud of the diverse, creative and friendly environment we have established and we believe you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry. Each of our Woogas plays an important role in our success as a company and in shaping our culture. We really value our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, excellent craftsmanship, truly collaborative way of working, and the values we strive to live up to every day. We create joyful experiences that awaken our players’ desire to see what happens next. Based in the heart of Berlin, with over 300 employees from around the world, we work together to create high-quality casual games with engaging stories at the core of the experience.

About the Role
 
As a Core Gameplay Artist, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, product managers, producers, writers, and other artists to create visually stunning and essential game elements for one of our hit games!Some of your responsibilities include:
  • Collaborating with game designers and UI/UX to create a high-quality and unique visual experience that enhances gameplay and aligns with game mechanics.
  • Developing prototypes and gathering feedback on them. Using this feedback to refine both the visual and gameplay experience.
  • Maintaining a consistent visual style throughout the game to ensure a cohesive player experience is met.
  • Optimizing visual elements for mobile device performance without compromising quality.
About You
  • You have a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to create engaging gameplay elements, demonstrating a keen eye for detail and an excellent sense of design.
  • You have a strong understanding of scale, proportion, material design, and the distribution and purpose of details.
  • You demonstrate excellent rendering and visual design capability and can adapt to established visual styles
  • You possess a solid knowledge of color theory.
  • You are proficient in digital illustration, with an advanced mastery of software such as Photoshop, After Effects, and Blender (ZBrush and Substance Painter are a plus).
  • You have experience with and can effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams/departments to provide and receive feedback from colleagues.
  • You embrace team work and can communicate both effectively and respectfully
  • You have experience with the Unity game engine.

Please note: Research has shown that some under-represented groups in the gaming industry (eg: women) tend to apply only if they meet every single requirement. Here at Wooga, the desire to learn and the willingness to solve problems are more important to us than your experience on paper. We encourage you to apply even if you do not think that you tick all the boxes - thinking outside of such boxes and embracing the diversity of mindsets and backgrounds is what we believe makes our teams thrive.

 

Our Promise    

  • Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts (over 57 nationalities!) working on crafting the world’s best games.
  • We offer a generous relocation package and home search support if you are not already located in Berlin. Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?
  • Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meet-ups, talks, brown bag lunches, internal trainings, workshops and many others.
  • Enjoy the yoga, mindfulness app, sports and transport subsidies. And a Purpose Day to donate your time to a worthy cause!
  • Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other.
  • With our hybrid work model you will work in the office with your teams twice a week, to encourage in-person collaboration and team bonding The other three days you can choose if you want to work from home or from the office. We also offer 10 days a year to work from abroad. We got your back!

At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences. Be yourself, we like you that way!

 

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Each of our 300 Woogas play an important role in growing our success as a company and in shaping our company culture. We are proud of our razor-sharp focus on story-driven casual games, the excellent craftsmanship we put into them, and our truly collaborative way of working.

 

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