Game Design Internship

• Must be a current student pursuing their bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. and graduating June 2022 or later.
• Available for a 12-week internship starting late May or late June.
• Can demonstrate strong design sensibilities, robust technical skills, and a strong work ethic.
• Passionate about learning what it takes to be a successful designer in the video game industry.
• Candidates must apply with a resume and portfolio link to be considered.

Internship Opportunities

Balance Design Intern, Hearthstone

As a Final Designer, you’ll design Hearthstone mechanics and individual cards as they get ready for release. Alongside working on an expansion’s overall design, you’ll also play a role in balance updates for the live environment.

• Experience designing games as personal or academic projects
• Experience implementing game content using a programming or scripting language
• Able to collaboratively iterate based on feedback, testing, and intuition
• Strong desire to learn and grow

• Competitive Hearthstone experience, including being a frequent Legend player

Content Design Intern, Hearthstone

As a Game Designer, you’ll be responsible for creating the exciting themes and mechanics for Hearthstone. In this role, your game design experience, critical thinking skills, and player-first mindset will be essential.

A feel for fun and the ability to effectively communicate the player experience

• Collaboratively iterate based on feedback, testing, and intuition
• Experience designing games as personal or academic projects
• Experience implementing game content using a programming or scripting language
• Strong desire to learn and grow

Dungeon Design Intern, Diablo IV

Dungeon Design interns will work directly with our development teams to help create procedurally generated dungeons – working across the entire pipeline to combine environments, spawns, events and more into a cohesive, compelling and replayable Dungeon experience. The ideal student has created levels, missions, quests, encounters or other content that demonstrate their instinct for fun gameplay experiences.

• Great sense for what makes a gameplay experience compelling and fun
• Previous experience designing games as personal, academic, or professional projects
• Experience with scripting game content

Encounter Design Intern , World of Warcraft

This position will involve the design and implementation of monsters, bosses, creature behavior, spawning, and placement. This candidate has an interest in encounter design, an aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, boundless creativity, an understanding of visual aesthetics, and a passion for video games.

• Possess an interest of how creature mechanics play in a combat model
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Familiarity with WoW dungeon and raid encounters is a plus

Game Design Intern, Unannounced Project
The ideal candidate will help with the creation of a broad array of content. You should have a passion for mobile gaming, a strong aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, outstanding people skills, boundless creativity and an earnest desire to learn and grow as a designer.

• Conceptualize, design and implement game content, systems, and story
• Ability to work well within a dynamic, cross- discipline , iterative team environment
• Work smartly and efficiently on a time sensitive release schedule
• Iterate and evolve designs based on player feedback
• Champion Blizzard’s core values, especially “Commit to Quality”

Level Design Intern, World of Warcraft

Our Level Designers are hybrid designers and artists. They sculpt and mold the terrain of Azeroth, placing and framing the amazing assets created by our art teams to bring our world to life. They are the fulcrum between art and design, forging our gameplay experiences at the ground level.

• Experience with sculpting 3D terrain in in-game engines. (Unreal, Lumberyard, etc. )
• Strong fundamental art skills.
• Knowledge of World of Warcraft, and how we structure our zone experiences

Narrative Design Intern , Multiple Teams

Our Narrative Designer will a ssist in creating immersive story-driven experiences that reinforce the game’s context and deepens the player experience.

• Passion for creative writing, game development, screenwriting, and theatre
• Strong communication skills
• Short writing sample welcomed, but not required

System Combat Design Intern , World of Warcraft

We're looking for a Combat Designer with a passion for engaging combat and gameplay. This candidate will work on multiple areas of design including skills, monster spawning and boss encounters. We're seeking someone with outstanding people skills, a strong aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, boundless creativity, and a passion for playing video games.

• Should have a good thought process for RPG-style combat both as a designer and a player
• Analytical skills for evaluating systems and interpreting player behavior
• Able to communicate effectively verbally, in writing, and using other mediums (such as pictures, videos, and illustrations)

Systems Rewards Design Intern , World of Warcraft

This position involves the design and implementation of items and reward systems. The ideal candidate has a strong aptitude for critical thinking and analysis, boundless creativity, and the ability to collaborate in a team environment.

• Creative thinker who enjoys finding fun solutions to design challenges
• Understanding of player motivation and rewards in MMOs
• Strong math and organizational skills
• Able to work creatively in a technical implementation environment

Quest Design Intern , Multiple Teams
Our Quest Designers are hybrid designers and tale - tellers . They create memorable characters and stories, bringing them to life working with Level Design, Narrative Design and more! You need to possess strong understanding of fun gameplay , but also the ability to write memorable storylines that carry players through the gameplay.

• Experience working on Game Design projects in a team setting.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience working in a tool such as Unreal, Unity, or even the StarCraft editor.
• Strong knowledge of World of Warcraft and what makes our quests fun.

• Completed student or personal projects involving gameplay implementation

World Design Intern, Diablo IV

World Design interns will work directly with our development teams to help populate Sanctuary with monsters, events, objects and other more – leveraging all of them to create a living and cohesive world. The ideal student has created levels, missions, quests, encounters or other content that demonstrate their instinct for fun gameplay experiences.

• Great sense for what makes a gameplay experience compelling and fun
• Previous experience designing games as personal, academic, or professional projects
• Experience with scripting game content

WHAT YOU’LL DO