Level Design Internship - Maritime Scenarios

Bring your level and games design skills to a maritime simulator that real ship captains and crews train on around the world.

VSTEP makes NAUTIS Home, a maritime simulator that people run on their own PC, with built-in ships, environments, and scenarios.

You'll have the freedom to design entertaining and skill-building scenarios from variations of existing ones to brand-new concepts you propose yourself.

Your daily activities will include:

You are:

• Currently enrolled in a relevant program like Communication & Media Design, Game Design, Interactive Media, or similar
• Looking for an internship or graduation project as part of your education or studies
• Willing to learn to work with our tools
• Interested in maritime subjects
• A storyteller, able to clearly communicate your ideas and bring them to life
• Located and living in the Netherlands. Willing to commute or relocate to Rotterdam for the internship. Hybrid possible

You have:

• A mix of creative and technical mind
• An eye for detail
• Strong written and spoken English (this is the language we use internally)
• Ability to visualize spatial situations, plan a scene, sketch ideas

Nice to have:

• Experience with a scenario editor, game engine, or level editor (Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc.)
• Comfortable working in a technical environment
• Experience writing engaging text for games, scenarios, or stories
  

• Your work matters: scenarios you design get released to real maritime training users around the world
• Experience with a professional scenario editor and logic editor
• Experience collaborating directly with software engineers and 3D artists, not just other students
• Experience writing scenario briefings and narrative for an international user base
• Working knowledge of maritime training scenarios, vessels, and environments
  
  
• A flexible working environment based in Rotterdam
• An inclusive, international, and diverse team
• You can choose your own working hours between 07:00 and 19:00
• An internship lasting 3 months or longer
• Start date is flexible. We work with your school's internship calendar
• An internship fee of €550 net per month

Sounds like you?
Apply and send us your CV, motivation letter, and examples of your work, such as:

• Game projects (school or personal, finished or in progress)
• Level designs
• Scenario writing for games or interactive fiction
• Narrative design

Want to take it further? Include a short pitch in your motivation letter: a scenario you'd love to design for NAUTIS Home, in 100 to 150 words. Even a rough idea is fine, we want to see how you think!