Company Description
Founded in 2013, our goal is to create gameplay-first titles that will both tug at your heartstrings and delight you with levity and charm. Importantly, the team wants to create games that all people can play and enjoy.
After launching the company with a wildly successful Kickstarter, the team at Yacht Club Games released their first game, Shovel Knight, to worldwide critical and commercial success. With multiple Game of the Year Awards and releases across all major platforms, Shovel Knight has become a major sensation. But we’re just getting started!
Yacht Club Game is a small collection of tenacious game development enthusiasts. In addition to enjoying all types of games, the team has over 50 years of collective experience in developing games on innumerable platforms. Yacht Club Games currently works from a sunny office located in Marina Del Rey, California.
Job Description
Learn how to assist and iterate on level designs, help implement tile sets into the game, help to maintain game design documentation, and attend team design meetings to learn how to work with a small team to bring a game to life!
This position is an unpaid internship. Interns must have a way to be present at our office in Marina del Rey, and we are not able to assist with living accommodations or transportation during the internship period.
Maximum hours per week: 20
Qualifications
- Potential Interns must meet the requirements for an unpaid educational internship*
- Can come to the office in Marina Del Rey, CA during scheduled hours
- Good attitude, can work well in a team
- Highly Recommended: A portfolio of games, levels, and/or game documents that demonstrate your knowledge of game design
- Must be able to earn school credit for the internship.
*Note this position is unpaid. It is required that it works towards your education in some way. You need to be able to prove you’re getting school credit or you have a school professor, teacher, principal, adviser, etc that approves the activity. Please refer to this document for any questions regarding what qualifies you as an unpaid intern.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
Perks
- Every member is a core part of the team
- Working in our beautiful penthouse office located on the Marina in Los Angeles!
- Free onsite parking if needed
- Fully stocked kitchen with unlimited snacks!
- Chance to work with a top-notch team on cool and unique games!
Deadline to Apply
The last day to apply for this internship is July 31, 2018.
After this date we will begin reviewing applications in August and we will reach out with updates to everyone's applications.
Other Roles?
Please review the following page for other positions:
http://yachtclubgames.com/jobs/