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

A programming internship with Yacht Club Games can help improve your programming skills while participating with a team to bring a video game to life! Learn to take game designs and implement them with a team, create player/enemy/object gameplay behaviors, implement menu UI elements, learn the ins and outs of a released ongoing project, or assist with our internal engine development and maintenance.

This position is an unpaid internship. Interns must have a way to be present at our office in Marina del Rey, California and we are not able to assist with living accommodations or transportation during the internship period.

Maximum hours per week: 20


Qualifications

  • Potential Interns 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
  • Basic knowledge of C++
  • Must be able to earn school credit for the internship
  • Highly Recommended: Examples of past games (released or unreleased) or projects that you have contributed on.

*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, advisor, 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, involved in any part of the company that interests them!
  • 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/

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