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Instrument, founded in 2005 with headquarters in Portland, Oregon, is a multidisciplinary agency dedicated to creating expressive and lasting digital experience
Senior Game Designer – Contract
Location
United States
Posted
134 days ago
Salary
$61 - $78 / hour
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Game Designer – Contract
Instrument Creative
• Create immersive, “in-world” interfaces that feel native to the narrative rather than overlaid on top of it. • Design and document complex gameplay loops that support narrative progression, player choice, and state-based outcomes • Shape how players receive information through visual, textual, and sensory cues — including state changes, progression signals, and emotional feedback. • Help define and curate guidelines for AI-generated assets (portraits, environments, landscapes), ensuring stylistic cohesion and narrative integrity. • Work closely with creative, design, and technical partners to ensure systems, visuals, and storytelling are deeply aligned.
Job Requirements
- 5–8+ years of experience in game design, interactive narrative, or systems-driven visual design
- Strong understanding of diegetic UI and immersive interface design
- Proven experience designing complex systems, loops, and progression models
- Exceptional visual sensibility paired with clear systems thinking
- Comfort working with ambiguity and helping define new frameworks from scratch
- Ability to document thinking clearly for cross-functional teams
- Major Plus: TTRPG literacy (D&D, narrative tabletop systems, or similar) – Familiarity with branching narratives, player agency, and emergent storytelling is a big win.
Benefits
- Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment
- Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy)
- 401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting
- Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance
- Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO
- Sabbaticals
- Monthly Wellbeing Stipend
- Career Management and Leadership Training
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