Hi, I'm Ryan Span, the team lead at Illuminated Games.

We're currently looking for a talented artist to help create and define our latest in-house title, The Zone: Stalker Stories.

Zone is a mixed-genre original idea -- part visual novel, part PvE card game, part top-down dungeon crawler -- which draws inspiration from titles like STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Dungeon Crawl and Slay the Spire, seamlessly merging disparate elements into a fun, coherent whole.

DEVELOPMENT STATUS

The project is currently in pre-alpha -- most of the overarching systems are playable and ready for art. Screenshots and gameplay footage are available on request.

REQUIREMENTS

Our current aim is to achieve an impressive public demo and possibly go straight to an Early Access release. To make it happen, our minimum requirements are:

• 1-2 top-down tilesets (32x32 or 64x64)
• 4-5 characters (some variations, very little animation)
• Some background illustrations

Themes are sci-fi and post-apocalyptic.

We are on course to achieve our milestones in 3-6 months. All of the above needs to be finished in that timeframe. Being able to work fast is a big plus.

OPPORTUNITIES

The chosen candidate will have a big hand in defining our look and style. We want to go bold and unique, so if you've got a vision that will turn heads, now is the time and this is the place to put your art on the map.

Previous experience working in games is a plus but not required -- quality is our primary concern.

COMPENSATION

We use a revenue-share business model, which has worked well for us in the past, enabling IG to put out a string of released projects. Our contracts include a percentage of Kickstarter/Early Access funds as well as post-release sales.

TO APPLY

Reply to this post or send an email to careers@illuminated.games with a link to your portfolio.