VFX Artist | Minecraft Blast, New Games

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Job Description:

We are looking for a VFX Artist to craft impactful, readable, and polished visual effects for our mobile Minecraft game.

Your work will support gameplay clarity, emotional feedback, and tactile satisfaction. Effects must feel modern and high-end, while keeping a subtle Minecraft accent.

Key Responsibilities

• Create real-time VFX for gameplay, boosters, power-ups, and board interactions.
• Design snappy, magnitude-based effects that communicate impact clearly .
• Develop soft glows with subtle blocky echoes .
• Support destruction, construction, and combo moments with satisfying feedback .
• Build UI VFX such as glint wipes, glow pulses, and impact bursts .
• Ensure clarity and readability on small mobile screens.
• Optimize effects for real-time mobile performance.
• Maintain consistency across Meta and Core gameplay contexts.
  
  

Collaboration and Integration

• Partner with Animation to align timing and impact.
• Work with Game Design and Art to reinforce gameplay feedback loops.
• Collaborate with Engineering to balance quality and performance.
• Align with Art Direction to maintain a polished, cute, and vibrant tone .
• Contribute to evolving our VFX style guide and visual benchmarks.
  
  

Required Skills And Experience

• Experience creating real-time VFX in Unity or similar engines.
• Strong understanding of timing, impact, and visual hierarchy.
• Solid knowledge of particle systems, shaders, and materials.
• Ability to balance stylization with gameplay clarity.
• Experience optimizing effects for mobile devices.
• Strong sense of color, glow control, and readable contrast.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on casual or puzzle games.
• Familiarity with Minecraft visual language and tone .
• Experience blending stylized realism with subtle pixel/block accents .
• Understanding of UI VFX integration principles .
• Technical shader knowledge or node-based VFX tools experience.
  
  

What We Offer

• The chance to define the VFX language of a major global IP on mobile.
• A focused and quality-driven art team.
• Creative ownership within a clear visual direction.
• A balanced work culture that values clarity, craft, and collaboration.
  
  

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.