The Good Job Arcade Instruction Manual was co-written by Danny Luong, Jessica Szeto, and Jordan Baylon, and designed by Teresa Tam.

The Manual was created as a companion to the Arcade in the same way games used to come with physical manuals to assist the player in navigating the worlds they’re playing. Controls, lore, characters, fun tidbits, and articles, the GJA Manual is dense with information that aims to help players in the Arcade to not only play the games, but to also expand on the themes explored within each one.

The Manual was printed on grey paper in risograph with blue, bright red, and green inks. The first run print was perfect bound and the second run was coil-bound with neon coils.