UX/UI Designer

UX/UI Designer

You will be joining the Lost Gate Studios team as a UX/UI Designer. The Lost Gate Studios team values developers who bring both passion and self-awareness to their discipline. A nourishing game dev experience is built on clear communication, mutual respect, and the creative drive to solve problems in innovative ways. Each team member understands their strengths, acknowledges areas for growth, and work collaboratively to push the boundaries of what's possible in collaborating with each other to make MINDFLUX: Dead Man Walking.

MINDFLUX: Dead Man Walking is a psychological-horror RPG where you play as Ambrose, a Cerebroid detective investigating a murder while uncovering your forgotten past. Set in a "scrap-punk" dystopia, players will modify their mechanized brain, observe suspects, and make tactical dialogue choices that impact both the investigation and their own deteriorating mental stability.

Salix Augeat is a video game production company focused on making the industry accessible to growing game devs through recruitment, production, and publishing services. Lost Gate Studios, our first internal studio, consists of 11 remote team members united by their belief that mind-bending roleplaying games expose fundamental truths about humanity.

Job Responsibilities:

• Wireframe game UI based on feature's design goals and gameplay loop.
• Conduct UX tests to discover optimal UX flow for players for each front facing feature.
• Create UI art in-line with established UI art style.
• Implement UI art and build technologies in Unity to support UX/UI designs.
• Own the UX to UI pipeline from wireframing to UI art to implementation.

The Incentives:

• Pay Rate: $20 per hour
• Hours Cap: 20 hrs a week
• Creative freedom to influence the final product
• Portfolio building with no content NDA (Leads Approval Required)
• Real game development experience with an 11-person team
• Credits on a shipped, market-validated project (1000+ Steam wishlists)

While 1099 contract work is common in the video game industry, this paradigm is a pitstop for us. Our grand objective is to take the MDMW team as full time W-2 employees through the success of MINDFLUX: Dead Man Walking, other transmedia initiatives from Lost Gate Studios and content initiatives from Salix Augeat. We seek to build and establish a studio with staying power, making the kinds of games we want to see in the world: nourishing, reflective, and fun, challenging the player to uncover truths about themselves. 1099s are a means to an end, not the final destination for Lost Gate Studios and Salix Augeat.