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University Game Club Program: Curriculum & Playbook Intern

Endless Studios

Manhattan, NY • On-site

Other

Posted 28 days ago

Job description

Salary: $1,000 per week

ENDLESS CLUBS

Curriculum and Playbook Intern

Location

LOCATION: New York, NY (in person; remote-friendly during deep writing weeks)

Reports to

REPORTS TO: Clubs Program Lead Intern

Stipend

COMPENSATION: $12,000 for the 12-week program, plus housing assistance and travel


THE SHORT VERSION

Endless Clubs is going to become the campus arm of a global game development movement and you are the person who creates the playbook for how the clubs will operate.

Within a few years, we hope to have hundreds of clubs at colleges and universities across the world. In addition to having fun and mentoring younger gamers, the club's goal is to turn game players into game makers who improve and demonstrate their career readiness by working on some of the many hard and soft skills required to make and market great games. We are building a global movement to democratize game development. We need an experienced game maker who can write the playbook for how other students across the country will build games together through at least game jams and game building mentorship projects.

As new Endless Clubs get started in September, and their members have never thrown a game jam, never mentored a kid, and never picked up a bounty your work and step-by-step guides are what makes it possible for them to do all three. The playbooks, the curriculum, the workshop library, the faculty advisor one-pager. You decide with the team this summer what needs to be created and you literally write the book.


WHAT YOU WILL ACTUALLY DO

  • Write the Club Starter Guide start a club, run a meeting, recruit members, manage the budget.
  • Write the Game Jam Playbook throw a 48-hour campus jam from scratch.
  • Write the Mentorship Curriculum mentor K12 students locally and online internationally, with safeguarding built in.
  • Write the Pro Pathway Guide turn a bounty into a portfolio piece into a paid summer.
  • Build the Workshop Library v1 at least 12 plug-and-play sessions a club leader can run with no prep.
  • Write the Faculty Advisor One-Pager make it as easy as possible for a professor to say yes.
  • Run user testing on every document with at least three real college students before final.


WHO YOU ARE

  • You can write. Real, clear, plain-English writing that does not waste anyone's time. No AI slop!
  • You like instructional design. You think about how a reader actually uses a document, not just how it reads.
  • You have either taught, mentored, written curriculum, or run a club before at least one.
  • You move fast. You will produce north of 100 pages of polished material this summer.
  • Bonus: a background in education, game design, or both.


WHY THIS JOB

Most writing internships have you ghostwriting LinkedIn posts. This one has you writing the foundational documents of a movement. The Game Jam Playbook you write will be in print, in welcome boxes, on many campuses by September. People will find your work in a box on their desk. They will use it.


TO APPLY

  • Submit a brief (1 page) instructional guide for how 4 friends who want to play a game on a Saturday choose the game and organize themselves. Humor is fine but not necessary! We want to see how you think about, organize, and express your ideas.
  • Submit a one-page outline for what should be in the Game Jam Playbook. Your structure, your sections, your call. Just an outline, no polished copy needed. Chat with Claude about this if you want, but make this your own. Do NOT just submit AI content!

No cover letters. Show us how you think.