Job Description
Roboto Games is seeking a Unity VFX Artist for a contract role on Stormforge, a stylized open-world survival crafting game. The artist will create real-time VFX for combat, characters, environments, and storms using Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph. This role involves collaborating with various teams to maintain cohesive style and performance, and rapidly iterating effects from blockout to shippable quality.
Good To Have:
- Light C# scripting for triggers, events, and effect hooks
- GPU instancing / compute for high-density effects
- Houdini for flipbooks/meshes and After Effects for motion tests
Must Have:
- Create stylized real-time VFX for a 3rd-person action game (combat, characters, environment, storms)
- Build Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph effects and prefabs ready for in-engine use
- Collaborate with concept, environment, tech art, design, and engineering to maintain a cohesive style and solid runtime performance
- Rapidly iterate in-engine, from blockout to shippable quality
- Strong reel/portfolio of stylized real-time VFX in Unity
- 2+ years building gameplay VFX (outstanding juniors considered with exceptional reels)
- Hands-on with VFX Graph & Shader Graph; comfortable building reusable prefabs
- Familiar with URP performance considerations (draw calls, overdraw, batching/instancing, texture memory)
- Strong art fundamentals: shape language, color, timing, composition, visual hierarchy for readability
- Excellent sense of timing/motion and how VFX supports gameplay clarity
Perks:
- Be one of the core team members shaping a bold, cross-platform survival game
- Your voice will be heard — you’ll have real ownership and impact on the player experience
- Work with a friendly, talented, and diverse team of game industry veterans
- Play a key role in both development and player-facing content
- Flexible remote work (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
Hi! We’re Roboto Games—a venture-backed studio led by folks who previously shipped at PopCap and EA, with 10+ years’ experience each and games played by 65M+ players. Our mission: games that are good alone and great together.
Stormforge is a stylized open-world survival crafting game where players craft, build, fight, and harness epic magical storms to survive.
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Responsibilities
- Create stylized real-time VFX for a 3rd-pern action game (combat, characters, environment, storms)
- Build Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph effects and prefabs ready for in-engine use
- Collaborate with concept, environment, tech art, design, and engineering to maintain a cohesive style and solid runtime performance
- Rapidly iterate in-engine, from blockout to shippable quality
Requirements
- Strong reel/portfolio of stylized real-time VFX in Unity
- 2+ years building gameplay VFX (outstanding juniors considered with exceptional reels)
- Hands-on with VFX Graph & Shader Graph; comfortable building reusable prefabs
- Familiar with URP performance considerations (draw calls, overdraw, batching/instancing, texture memory)
- Strong art fundamentals: shape language, color, timing, composition, visual hierarchy for readability
- Excellent sense of timing/motion and how VFX supports gameplay clarity
Nice to Haves
- Light C# scripting for triggers, events, and effect hooks
- GPU instancing / compute for high-density effects
- Houdini for flipbooks/meshes and After Effects for motion tests
Contract Details
- Start: September 2025 End: April 2026 (could be extended)
- 30 - 40 hours per week
- Classification: Independent contractor; monthly invoicing; standard work-for-hire/IP assignment
- Art tests: If requested, paid and scoped to ≤1 working day
- Rate: based on experience and location; please include your expected hourly rate
- Location: Remote (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
The Game You’ll be Working on
- Stormforge is an open world survival crafting game where players will craft, build, fight, and harness epic storms to survive in a magical fantasy world
- Premium game, launching on PC Steam
- 3rd person action/adventure game built in Unity
- Real-time multiplayer co-op for 1 to 8 players
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Why work with Roboto Games?
- Be one of the core team members shaping a bold, cross-platform survival game
- Your voice will be heard — you’ll have real ownership and impact on the player experience
- Work with a friendly, talented, and diverse team of game industry veterans
- Play a key role in both development and player-facing content
- Flexible remote work (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
Roboto Games Culture and Values
- Have Fun
- Define a vision, then test early and test often
- Have the hard conversations when needed
- We are high performers
- Everyone on the team has a voice
- Treat others like they want to be treated
- Diversity is not just an afterthought, it’s part of who we are
- Support a great remote experience
- We’re not satisfied with the status quo
- Take on big challenges
- Make games that are fun and that our players love to play
- Be transparent with our community
- Address the core issues, not the loud voices
How To Apply
Please fill out the form to apply. https://forms.gle/NCAeghhNRozJPLGs5
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