Game Design Internship
Game Design Internship
Over the course of 6 months, help perfect an escape room about quantum physics, make a megagame about 4 long lost ships and learn all about experience design from within an awardwinning studio in Amsterdam.
Creative internship · Amsterdam · Start date flexible
Who are we?
Sherlocked is the multi award winning experience design studio behind some of the world's most lauded escape rooms, home mysteries and immersive adventures.
Our mission:make the world more magical.
Join our Escape Room & Live Game Design Team in Amsterdam
We’re looking for someone driven and passionate about:
✨ Escape rooms & live games
💡 Creating original, interactive experiences
🛠️ Prototyping — both digital and physical
What we offer:
✨ A talented and friendly team, including two of the most experienced escape room designers in the world ;)
🏡 A great work environment in Amsterdam, with the flexibility to work partly from home
🎨 Exciting projects to dive into, like escape rooms, city games, and even a masquerade ball
💸 Paid internship + travel expenses covered + fun perks (such as playing escape rooms with the team!)
What you might be working on:
🚪 Developing a large-group live escape game for up to 25 players
🧩 Testing and fine-tuning our Quantum Escape Room, which will be fully built by then and entering its final testing phase in October/November
🦁 Collaborating with Artis Zoo on a possible treasure hunt or escape room woven through the zoo itself
🎭 Helping design the Masquerade Ball we’ll host in Amsterdam (Nov/Dec), packed with mysterious mini quests
Interested? Come help us craft unforgettable adventures — and have a lot of fun along the way.
A sample from some of our past work:
Our new flagship adventure The Alchemist (which keeps winning awards!)
An immersive adventure in the Rijksmuseum
A massive immersive experience to get kids interested in tech
A 6-week puzzle contest played by thousands across the world
An online escape game on a tropical island and the moon
A hotel escape room in collaboration with Zoku
What do we offer?
Work you can be proud of, guaranteed (we only hire you if we believe we can guarantee this)
A friggin awesome internship and rich variety of projects (we can't promise you'll get to help stage a multi day immersive Hogwarts adventure in a 13th century castle, but it wouldn't be the first time)
A team of creative, driven and can-do colleagues
€450 internship compensation per month, plus travel costs
Many opt-in team events like playing escape rooms together, game nights and other surprise experiences
An office space in central Amsterdam, combined with the freedom to work partly from home if you prefer that.
Our office is located in the former French Consulate in the heart of town, with a gorgeous, wild garden at its core that's perfect for summer meetings, lunches and drinks.
For international students: we can try to help with housing, as this can be quite challenging in Amsterdam (no guarantees of course, this remains your responsibility)
Application deadline: we'll be looking at applications as they come in, so if you're interested...
Curious for more? Read on below and check some of our video's:
Some video's from our past projects: