Posted April 20, 2025 by Brighter Days Studios
[UPDATE: This information is outdated and remains up as an archive. The updated hiring post can be found here: Round 3 of Hiring - itch.io]
Do you want to join Brighter Days Studios and the development of Himawari High? We are currently hiring on 3D model texture artists, 2D character artists, and voice actors.
3D model texture artists
Positions Available: 3 (Character texture artist, Environment texture artist, Objects texture artist)
Responsibilities: Texture artists will be responsible for, well, creating texture art for 3D models in the game created by the lead programmer.
Due Date To Apply: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Payment: Unfortunately, we cannot offer upfront payment. Instead, each position will make 3.33% of game revenue sent every Friday after the game's release, as long as the game had sales that week.
Requirements:
-Ability to work in Unity
-Communication skills
-Able to draw in an anime art style
-All experience levels welcome to apply
What To Apply With: Submit a portfolio of your best work, then top picks will be emailed a specific task within the next week after the due date
Can You Apply For Multiple Positions?: Yes
2D Artists
Positions Available: 3 (2 character artists, 1 poster artist)
Responsibilities: Drawing official 2D art for a total of 94 characters, as well as variants of 9 of them for a total of 103 drawings. Poster artist will draw various in-game decorative posters around the school for different clubs and stuff, as well as the cover for a vinyl and maybe other things.
Due Date To Apply: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Payment: The 3 positions will recieve a total of 10% of the game's revenue. The 2 character artists will recieve 4% each, and the poster artist will recieve 2%.
Requirements:
-Communication skills
-Able to draw in a moe anime art style (such as Doki Doki Literature Club)
-All experience levels welcome to apply
What To Apply With: Submit a portfolio of your best work, then top picks will be emailed a specific task within the next week after the due date
Can You Apply For Multiple Positions?: Yes, but I don't recommend it
Voice Actor
Positions Available: 89
-Protagonist: Low to mid-pitch female voice. Speech pattern should be a bit uncanny and always just a bit apprehensive.
-Love Interest: Mid to high-pitch male voice. Speech pattern should be flowy and dreamy.
-Rival 1: High-pitch female voice. Should sound sweet, innocent, cute, soft, and a bit whispery.
-Rival 2: Low-pitch female voice. Should sound timid, quiet, stammery, and awkward.
-Rival 3: Mid-pitch female voice. Should sound like a basic white girl.
-Rival 4: Mid-pitch female voice. Should sound a bit uncanny yet friendly.
-Rival 5: High-pitch female voice. Should sound joyful and chipper, but also able to sound crashed out and depressed.
-Rival 6: Low-pitch male voice. Should sound percussive and charming.
-Rival 7: Low-pitch female voice. Should sound intimidating.
-Rival 8: Mid-pitch female voice. Should sound flat, indifferent, and broken.
-Student 1: Low-pitch female voice. Broken, paranoid, shy, awkward.
-Students 2-4: Female voices. Friendly.
-Students 5-8: Male voices. Friendly.
-Drama Club: 2 male and 6 female voices. Projecting, loud, a bit of a musical and rhythmic cadence.
-Home Ec Club: 2 male and 4 female voices. Soft and friendly.
-Occult Club: 3 male and 2 female voices. Shy, quiet, stammery, a bit ominous, and awkward.
-Music Club: 2 male and 3 female voices. Confident and outgoing with a heavy melodic flow and rhythmic cadence. One of the males must be able to sing.
-Science Club: 3 male and 2 female voices. Generic "nerd-sounding" voices
-Gardening Club: 1 male and 4 female voices. Soft, kind, and welcoming.
-Newspaper Club: 3 male and 2 female voices. Inquisitive, sharp, and percussive
-Art Club: 3 male and 3 female voices. Soft, thoughtful, and daydreamy
-Computer Club: 3 male and 3 female voices. All 3 female voices and 2 male voices sound sound intelligent and sharp, and the 3rd male voice should sound whiny and talk slow and uncanny.
-Hitmen: 3 male and 2 female voices. Low, growly, intimidating
-Bully: 5 female voices. Standard "mean girl" voices
-Student Council: 1 male and 3 female voices. Voices vary. Male voice sound sound aloof and friendly, 1st female voice should sound strict and professional, 2nd should sound relaxed, and the 3rd should sound pretentious
-Male Teachers
-Female Teachers
-Guidance Counselor
-Headmistress
-Misc. Voiced Lines/Sounds
Responsibilities: Voice actors are expected to voice act the characters they are cast as the best they can.
Due Date To Apply: Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST
Payment:
-Protagonist: 5% of game revenue
-Love Interest: 3% of game revenue
-Rivals: 1% of game revenue
-Characters with side arcs: 0.5% of game revenue
-Other characters and misc dialogue and sounds: 0.25% of game revenue
Requirements:
-Communication skills
-Excellent acting skills
-Ability to provide high quality audio
-All experience levels welcome to apply
What To Apply With: Please send a demo reel that showcases your full range of acting. Then within one week after the due date, top picks will recieve lines for particular roles that we feel best suit them to read and then submit a recording of themselves doing it.
Can You Apply For Multiple Positions?: Yes, strongly encouraged
When will you see updates? Every Saturday (or sooner when there's more stuff) I will post progress updates in blog form on here, keeping you in the loop on how the game is evolving, what we've accomplished, and any new milestones we've reached. This way, you can follow the journey and see the game's development firsthand!
Send everything to: brighterdaysdevstudios@gmail.com
Make your subject line formatted as: Name - Job(s) Applying For
We look forward to receiving applications, portfolios, and auditions and to meeting everyone who auditions. We hope to have you on the team and the development of Himawari High!
-Brighter Days Studios