2D Game Artist / UI Designer (Mobile Game)

🚀 About Kilona.io

At Kilona.io, we build high-quality, high-speed web and mobile applications. We work with global startups to create cutting-edge products that are fast, precise, and beautifully engineered.

We are looking for an experienced 2D Game Artist / UI Designer to define the visual direction of a competitive mobile card game.
 

The game is a poker-hand roguelike deckbuilder with a heist-inspired concept: a crew of specialists, a high-security target, tension, precision, and elegance.

There is no existing art direction yet. You will be responsible for creating the visual identity from scratch — defining the style guide and keeping it consistent across the full game.

✅ Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in 2D game art, game UI, or a similar role
• Strong portfolio with mobile game UI screens and iconography
• Strong understanding of UI/UX principles for mobile games
• Experience defining a visual style and maintaining consistency across a large number of assets
• Strong skills in Photoshop and 2D illustration
• Experience preparing production-ready assets for Unity
• Understanding of sprite atlases, 9-slice assets, layered PSD files, and animation-ready asset preparation
• Ability to create clean, consistent, and pixel-perfect UI assets for UGUI
• Experience designing localisation-friendly interfaces with text separated from graphics
• Ability to work with both portrait and landscape layouts
• Ability to work effectively within strict creative and platform-specific content requirements
• Good communication skills in English, at Intermediate level or higher

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience working on card games, deckbuilders, or similar mobile games
• Character illustration and character design experience
• Experience with art direction or defining a game’s visual identity from scratch

• Familiarity with DOTween

   

🧑‍💻 Responsibilities

• Create a style guide and 2–3 key screens to establish the visual direction
• Design card faces and card backs
• Create crew and specialist character portraits
• Design resource, currency, ability, and modifier icons
• Create backgrounds and environments for the game
• Build a complete UI kit, including buttons, panels, states, typography, and other interface elements
• Design the tournament HUD, including live score, efficiency meter, and round progress
• Create the Score Summary screen with score breakdowns, personal records, final score, and CTA
• Prepare a short, skippable reveal storyboard for the Score Summary screen
• Design first-time user experience and tutorial screens
• Create a Skillz platform theme pack, including colour tokens, button states, radii, gradients, and 14 prize artwork assets
• Create cosmetic assets such as card backs, avatar frames, and badges
• Prepare store assets including the app icon, screenshots, and promotional visuals
• Prepare and organise assets for clean Unity implementation
• Maintain visual consistency across 100+ game assets
• Collaborate closely with the development and product teams throughout production

🧑‍💻 Working Conditions

• Part-time / contract cooperation
• Fully remote — work from anywhere
• Expected project duration: approximately 3–4 months, depending on the final card and character scope
• Hourly-based payment model
• Flexible schedule
• Continuous WIP sharing and regular feedback
• Opportunity to define the visual identity of a mobile game from the ground up

🔍 Hiring Process

• Portfolio and application review
• Video introduction or a quick screening call — 20–30 minutes
• Final interview, if needed
• Offer 🎉

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