Join the Gamer Dorks Team!
Gamer Dorks is powered by a team of volunteer staff who moderate our communities, host our events, and develop our games. And if you’re interested, you can volunteer as well!
If you haven’t yet, make sure to read our Staff Guidelines.
Base Requirements
We expect our staff to meet the following base criteria:
- Be at least 16 years of age.
- Be in our Discord server.
- Have a good reputation with the current staff team.
- Have no recent infractions on any Gamer Dorks community, game, or game server.
- Have experience in or are eager to learn the skills necessary to do your job.
- Want to assist in the development of our community and projects.
Activity Expectations
We do not expect you to always be active. Since you are a volunteer, everything should come before contributing to Gamer Dorks. Work, school, family, friends; all are more important.
As such, we do not have shifts here, and you can take a break under any of the following conditions:
- Short breaks up to 7 days can be taken at any time for any reason.
- Long breaks over 7 days can be taken at any time for any reason, BUT you should let us know in the #break channel in our Staff Discord.
- Community staff may take breaks even while handling a moderation case so long as you make a post in the #moderation channel first.
Additionally, If you have no tasks assigned to you, you are automatically on break, and don’t need to worry about your activity.
That said, we don’t want our staff doing the bare minimum. There are no requirements for activity, but please make sure you are interacting with Gamer Dorks when time permits!
Benefits
All staff members get the following benefits while they are a member of the team:
- Access to all unlockable channels on Discord and Stoat.
- Free LEGEND rank on the Minecraft server.
- Free Creative Utilities perk on the Creative Pro game mode on Minecraft.
- Free access to all our Steam games, eligible after 1 month of active participation in the team.
- Store credit for hourly work done, which can be spent on:
- Our Minecraft server store.
- [More options available at a later time]
- Builders: Download your plots in Creative Pro at any time for free.
Disclaimer about Payments
Gamer Dorks currently does not make a profit from its studio, and so we cannot offer payments at this time. We hope that we can offer this soon, however.
In the future we would like to offer hourly payments for work done, commissions to the artists for cosmetics, art books, soundtracks, and a percentage of the profits obtained from our studio. But at this time, we cannot offer any of these benefits.
Team Breakdown
To help you understand which team to apply for, we have provided you with this guide for what each staff team does.
Community Team
The Community Team is a hierarchical team consisting of Helpers, Moderators, and Senior Moderators. If you want to join this team, you will first apply for Helper, then get promotions and move to the next roles.
MANDATORY DUTIES:
- Moderate our games, game servers, and online communities.
- Currently, this includes
- Gamer Dorks Discord Server
- Gamer Dorks Stoat Server
- Gamer Dorks Steam Group
- Gamer Dorks Minecraft Server
- Moderators are expected to assist Helpers in the execution of their duties.
- Senior Moderators are expected to lead the Community Management team as a whole, disciplining any member of any staff team other than Sr Mods, Sr Devs, and Administrators.
OPTIONAL DUTIES:
- Host events on our online communities.
- Assist in managing our social media accounts.
- Moderate, manage, and edit our wikis.
- Help write pages and blogs for our website.
- Handle support tickets on our website.
JOINING THE TEAM:
- Become a Helper by submitting an application.
- Become a Moderator by being an active, excellent Helper, and receiving a promotion.
- Become a Sr Mod by showing an outstanding understanding of the community and a willingness to lead the community and the staff team itself; receiving a promotion from Moderator.
Development Team
The Development Team is a hierarchical team consisting of Testers, Developers, and Senior Developers. If you want to join this team, you will first apply for Tester, then get promotions and move to the next roles.
MANDATORY DUTIES:
- Testers may playtest our games and game servers, to ensure that it is fair, fun, and free of bugs or exploits.
- Testers will likely be required to playtest a single level, over and over again, until we determine that there are no issues.
- Developers are expected to also assist with programming our games or configuring our Minecraft servers.
- Senior Developers are expected to lead the creative and development teams surrounding a particular project of their own, such as a specific game on steam or game mode in the Minecraft server.
OPTIONAL DUTIES:
- Come up with ideas for new game mechanics or game features.
- Help designing and balancing new items in our games.
- Testers may gain limited access to our game’s code in order to assist with programming.
JOINING THE TEAM:
- Become a Tester by submitting an application.
- Become a Developer by having the necessary skills and willingness to develop our games or Minecraft servers; receiving a promotion from Tester.
- Become a Senior Developer by having the necessary skills and willingness to direct a particular Gamer Dorks project and lead your particular team of project staff.
Creative Team
The Creative Team is a non-hierarchical team consisting of Artists, Musicians, Translators, Writers, and Builders. If you want to join this team, you can apply for any of these roles and you assigned to that team if you are accepted.
JOINING THE TEAM:
- Become an Artist, Musician, Translator, Writer, or Builder by submitting an application.
ARTIST DUTIES:
- At least one of the following:
- Create artwork to be displayed in our video games, such as a character model.
- Create artwork to be displayed on our game’s official listing pages, such as achievements, point shop items, trading cards, banners, or icons on our Steam page.
- Create artwork to be displayed on our website or social media pages, such as a server icon.
- Create textures for the Minecraft texture pack.
MUSICIAN DUTIES:
- Create the in-game soundtracks for our video games. These can also be used in promotional material around Gamer Dorks.
TRANSLATOR DUTIES:
- Localize our games into other languages so that it can be distributed to people who do not speak English.
WRITER DUTIES:
- Write the lore for our games. This includes characters, worldbuilding, magic systems, and dialogue.
BUILDER DUTIES:
- Build the structures for our Minecraft server. This includes Dreamland islands and challenges for Unboxed, generated structures for Survival, lobby and spawn regions, etc.
Administration Team
The Administration Team consists of only one staff role, the Administrators. They are the heads of all staff.
MANDATORY DUTIES:
- Oversee the proper running of Gamer Dorks in its games, communities, and any other online or real-life presence it has.
- Participate in all community management duties as well as some combination of creative and development duties.
JOINING THE TEAM:
- Receive a promotion for being an exceptional Sr. Moderator OR Sr. Developer.
Apply Now
Open a ticket here and select the “Application” ticket category, then select “Staff Volunteer” application type. Fill it out and we’ll review it!
