Game Design Intern

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About the role

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is hiring for the role of Game Design Intern!

The work

Responsibilities of the Intern

• Support the design of game features, systems, content, and live-service experiences.
• Turn design ideas into clear flows, rules, requirements, and design documentation.
• Participate in brainstorming and design discussions, contributing ideas for new mechanics, features, events, and player experiences.
• Playtest features and content, identify design problems, gather feedback, and iterate on solutions.
• Work with designers, engineers, artists, experience designers, product managers, analysts, and QA to take ideas from concept toward implementation.
• Use player feedback, game data, and design principles to understand how features can be improved.
• Support balancing gameplay, progression, rewards, difficulty, and other game systems.
• Research games and competitors to understand design patterns, player motivations, market trends, and opportunities for innovation.
• Contribute to live-service content such as events, challenges, progression experiences, or other recurring player activities.
• Explore how emerging tools, including AI-assisted workflows, can help improve ideation, research, prototyping, documentation, and iteration.

Who they want

Requirements

• A foundational understanding of game design principles, including gameplay loops, player motivation, progression, balance, feedback, challenge, and reward.
• Strong interest in building games and understanding why players find experiences engaging and fun.
• Creative and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly through written documentation, diagrams, presentations, or prototypes.
• Curiosity, willingness to learn, and openness to feedback and iteration.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with people from different disciplines.
• Currently pursuing a degree/diploma in Game Design, Game Development, Computer Science, Interactive Media, or a related discipline, or able to demonstrate equivalent skills through personal or academic projects.
• A portfolio, playable project, prototype, game jam project, level, system design, or other game-design work that demonstrates your thinking and interest in game development.