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Slot Game Artist
Mission and Purpose
As a Slot Game Artist, your work directly shapes the player’s first impression and lasting engagement. That makes this role central to the quality and feel of every game we release. We’re looking for someone who takes pride in visual storytelling, attention to detail, and technical execution. While there are production constraints and recurring formats to work within, there are real opportunities to push the visual standard — through smart design choices, collaborative iteration, and personal artistic growth.
If you care about clarity, style, and making polished work that people actually enjoy, you’ll fit in well at Northern lights!
Job Requirements
Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:
- Create high-quality 2D art assets for slot games, including symbols, backgrounds, UI elements, and visual effects.
- Contribute to the pre-production phase by producing mood boards, concept art, and AI-assisted visual exploration to help define and refine the game’s visual direction early in development.
- Design branding assets such as logos, feature panels, and promotional artwork that support the game’s identity and presentation.
- Work closely with game designers, animators, and developers to ensure all visuals are cohesive, functional, and thematically aligned.
- Implement final art assets using Spine, Texture Packer, and GitHub, following established technical pipelines to ensure assets are optimized and correctly integrated into the game.
- A good understanding of character design, environment art, UI layout, and visual hierarchy in slot games.
- Ensure all visuals are prepared for performance, scalability, and compatibility across devices and platforms.
Skills & Requirements
- Previous experience in the casino gaming industry or a similar field, with a focus on slot machine games.
- Proficiency in Photoshop, Spine, and Texture Packer.
- A good working knowledge of Slot game appropriate software.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as GitHub.
- Adaptive use of AI tools and processes as part of the art workflow.
- A good understanding of character design, environment art, UI layout, and visual hierarchy in slot games.
- Maintain a solid grasp of composition, lighting, colour theory, digital painting techniques and basic animation.
- Broad experience with the Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Illustrator, After Effects).
- Ability to work within technical constraints and iterate based on feedback.
- A proactive, collaborative mindset — you’re comfortable both taking the lead on visual direction, working within an established style and receiving curated direction guidelines from both creative and non-creative disciplines.
Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience in an art role within the gaming, entertainment, or slots / casino industry with released titles in your work history.
- A solid understanding of slot game design, player psychology, and casino gaming trends (themes and mechanics).
- Expertise in 2D art creation.
- A quick and efficient communicator; proactive and easy to get hold of .
- Strong portfolio showcasing a range of game art and design projects, particularly in casino games or related industries.
- Proven experience working as part of a development team, delivering assets and workloads on time to budget.
- Excellent task management, organisational, and pro-active communication skills (through texts, calls and presentations).
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible, Creative and dynamic work environment
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Employee perk scheme
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