Educational Games Developer

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Job Title: Game Designer & Story Developer
PromisePlay Studio - Building Promises, One Game at a Time

Organization: PromisePlay Studio, a youth-centered game development initiative of Mentor A Promise, is on a mission to create interactive, culturally relevant educational games for students living in shelters and under-resourced communities. We design with empathy, joy, and purpose-because every child deserves to play their way toward possibility.

What you'll do: as our first Game Designer & Story Developer, you'll shape the worlds, characters, and interactive mechanics that bring student voices and mentor relationships to life.

Your responsibilities will include:

• designing narrative-driven, educational games rooted in real-life youth experiences (housing insecurity, school transitions, mentorship)

• Creating branching storylines, quests, and dialogue trees that emphasize agency, empathy, and academic growth

• Collaborating with artists, engineers, and youth advisors on game mechanics and visual storytelling

• Building and refining prototypes in Twine, Unity, or similar tools (we’re platform-flexible!)

• Integrating academic and SEL standards into gameplay in meaningful, non-intrusive ways

• Participating in design sprints, co-creation workshops, and youth/mentor feedback sessions

we're looking for someone who:

• Is a story-first designer with a heart for youth justice and education equity

• Has experience with 2D narrative or educational game development (prototypes or shipped games welcome!)

• Can collaborate with both technical teams and non-technical partners (educators, social workers, youth)

• Brings a lens of cultural responsiveness and trauma-informed design

• Understands the challenges and dreams of students in transitional housing, Title I schools, or similar contexts

• Bonus: Spanish fluency, UX/UI experience, or lived experience in the communities we serve

tools you may use:

• Twine, Unity, Construct, or Scratch (depending on project scope)

• Figma, Miro, Google Suite

• Slack, Notion, Zoom for collaboration

what we offer:

• A mission-driven creative team grounded in mentorship, equity, and joy

• Deep connection to real student and mentor stories

• Flexible scheduling and remote work

• Opportunity to build something from the ground up

• Pathways to growth into creative lead, narrative director, or studio co-builder

how to apply:

Send your resume, portfolio (or sample of narrative/game design work), and a short statement on why you care about youth, games, and equity to:

beranobel@mentorapromise.org

Subject line: Game Designer - PromisePlay Studio

Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.