Get Paid to Design Clothes in a Game: How Player Designers Earn

If you can draw and you love fashion, designing clothes for a game is one of the most satisfying ways to use that skill: you see thousands of players wear something you made. In some games it also earns you real money.

This guide explains how it works in BeenSeen, our game, and compares it honestly with the other games where creators get paid. We'll also cover what you need, what it really pays, and how to get your first design accepted.

Can you really earn money designing clothes in a game?

Yes, but set your expectations. In most games, a handful of top creators earn serious money and most designers earn a little. What decides it is how many players buy your items, how much of each sale goes to you, and whether the game pays out in real money or only in in-game currency. The table below shows how the main options compare.

How designing for BeenSeen works

The BeanBucks part of the BeenSeen shop is completely community-made. You don't need a special role, a high level or a membership. Anyone with an account can submit a design.

1. Download a base and draw

Every item is drawn at 400 × 720 pixels on top of the model base, which you can download from the upload page. Draw on separate layers over the base, then export only your item with a transparent background. PNG or WebP work best. There are two body types: you can upload one image that fits both, or a separate image for each.

• Recolors: you can upload up to 8 color variants of a design.
• Make-up: mark an item as make-up and it's automatically tinted for every skin tone. Draw it on a midtone with shading only.
• Animated items: GIF and animated WebP are supported.
• No AI: AI-generated images are not accepted.

2. Submit for review

After you upload, the design lands in our review portal. The team checks the art quality and how the item fits the base, and you always hear back. If it needs a small tweak you get a note with feedback, and you can edit and resubmit. Accepted items get a rarity and a price set by staff, and go into the shop rotation.

The most common reasons a design is declined are flat or airbrushed shading, jagged or blurry lines, outlines that are too thick, anatomy that doesn't fit the base, and items that copy a real brand or another game. The full list is in the design guide.

3. Earn from every sale

Every time your item sells for BeanBucks, you get 15% of the price in BeanBucks, plus the same amount in XP. A popular item keeps paying for as long as it's in the shop. On the design sales page you can see your sales per week, your best sellers and how your items are trending.

You keep ownership of the designs you submit for the BeanBucks shop. Items people already bought stay in their wardrobes, but you can ask us to take a design out of the shop rotation.

Real-money payouts for gem items

BeenSeen also sells gem items, which players buy with gems. We're testing real-money payouts for the designers of those items with a small group right now. Here's how the pilot works:

• Gem sales of your items earn design tokens, a share of BeenSeen's revenue from those sales.
• Once your tokens are worth €10, you can cash out to your own bank account.
• Payouts go through Stripe, which handles identity and bank checks. BeenSeen never sees your bank details.
• You need to be 18 or older to cash out. Younger designers keep earning tokens until they can.
• Payouts are a share of revenue, not wages, so you declare the income yourself where you live.

When the pilot opens up to more designers, we'll announce it in the game.

Other games that pay clothing designers

Roblox

Roblox creators can make 2D clothing and 3D accessories and sell them for Robux. Creators who meet the Developer Exchange requirements, including being at least 13 and having a minimum Robux balance, can exchange earned Robux for real money. It's the biggest market, which also means the most competition.

Second Life

Second Life has a long-running fashion scene where creators sell 3D mesh clothing on the Marketplace for Linden dollars, which can be exchanged for real currency. It's a great fit for experienced 3D artists, but the learning curve for rigged mesh is steep.

Zepeto

Zepeto Studio lets creators design avatar items from templates or 3D models and sell them for Zems, which can be cashed out once you pass a minimum.

Highrise

Highrise, a social avatar app, runs an Earn program that includes payouts for designers whose items sell.

Which one should you pick?

You draw in 2D. BeenSeen is built for illustrators: no 3D software, no rigging, just a base, layers and a good eye. Your item sits in a shop that players visit every day.

You do 3D. Second Life, Zepeto and Roblox accessories reward 3D modelling skills.

You want the biggest possible audience. Roblox is huge, but standing out there is hard.

Tips for your first accepted design

1. Study the shop. Look at the shading and line weight of items that are already in the game, and match it.
2. Shade with form. Folds, light and shadow make an item look like fabric instead of a flat shape.
3. Check both body types and leave the model's left hand uncovered on pants and skirts.
4. Make something new. Items too similar to existing ones are declined, so look for gaps in the catalog.
5. Ask for feedback. The design chat on our Discord is full of designers who are happy to help.

Ready? Read the design guide, then submit your first item on the upload page.