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 40 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.

Work in one of, or a variety of disciplines

Art

• Use Photoshop to create marketing / other assets for web and print
• Create or clean up pixel art / animation

Programming

• Work within an existing C++ codebase.
• Help debug and fix gameplay bugs.
• Implement any one or all of the following: gameplay, UI, engine, or debugging features according to design specifications or discrete tasks. 
• Improve and optimize game development pipeline.
• Work with the team to review code.

Design

• Construct in-game stages, design layouts, and find the fun
  
• Plan and discuss new feature implementation
• Evaluate current gameplay and iterate design
  

Operational

• Create and proofread documents in MS Office, Google Docs, and email
• Display writing, grammar, and language editing skills
• Make phone calls, send marketing emails
  
• Organize and maintain appointments

Other

• QA Testing the game, writing feedback or bugs
• Office upkeep

• You meet the requirements for an unpaid educational internship*
• Can come to the office in Marina Del Rey, CA on a daily basis
• Good attitude, can work well in a team

*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, 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

Future employment or work may be a possibility!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.