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Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA)
We're the Largest Game Dev Club on Campus!

We are Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA), and we are in charge of a student-game development community with over a hundred active members every year.


Our main program is the Mock Studio: Every school year, we make one game for anyone interested to learn game development experience. Games can be pitched by anyone with an idea at the start of the year. Voting is open to anyone interested in participating! Since our founding in 2015, we've developed a wide breadth of games, all playable from our website.


Anyone can sign up!

We're always on the lookout for new students—we recruit novices excited to get a start in game development to experienced developers looking to expand their skills.


But doing all of this takes our time, dedication, and money! What do we need money for?

  • Maintaining our website: https://www.gdacollab.com/
    • It's a great way for new people to quickly learn what we're about and how to participate!
    • We need funds for renewing our domain name, and paying for the server that hosts our site.
  • Hosting game jams 
    • We intermittently host a wide variety of game jams, where members develop games under a time constraint (anywhere from 48 hours to a week, usually). It's a great way to develop know-how under pressure, and meet lots of new people!
    • Our most recent Game Jam was the global game jam, which you can view the results of here.
    • For our largest jams, we reserve in-person spaces and pay for feeding any interested participants over the duration of the jam.
  • Minecraft!
    • We have a minecraft server for anyone interested in our club to connect and get to know each other.
    • We build adventure maps, run periodic games, and generally leave the server open for our members to do whatever they'd like!
    • Funds would help pay for the server's running costs.
  • Miscellaneous Expenses
    • We never know what might come up! Here are some of the things we've purchased specifically for the club in the past:
      • Tents
      • Tables
      • Toasters
      • Label makers
      • Movie rentals


Every single one of these funding needs is expressly for our members

We want to make sure that they are given a platform to make long-lasting connections and develop valuable game development skills with broad applications for their future.


Thank you so much for your time and consideration, we thank you for any support that you're willing to give!

Leaderboard
Kickoff Challenge
The group with the most unique donors on April 3rd between 4 and 6 PM will win $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 26
2 $500 Acquire A Cappella 16
3 WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) 14
4 Women's Lacrosse Team 8
5 Sol Ultimate Frisbee 6
Ended
Leaderboard
Closeout Challenge
The project with the most unique donors will win $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 iGEM 47
2 $500 alpha Kappa Delta Phi 26
3 Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program 12
4 Acquire A Cappella 9
5 Men's Club Lacrosse 8
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Leaderboard
Hundred Dollar Dash
The project team with the most donations $100 or greater will receive an additional $1,000. Second place will receive $500.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,000 Lick Observatory 33
2 $500 Gary Griggs Fund: Earth Sciences Student Research 19
3 KZSC 88.1FM 19
4 iGEM 15
5 Men's Club Lacrosse 12
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Leaderboard
The Spring Give Challenge
The project with the most unique donors throughout The Spring Give will win $3,000. Second place will receive $2,000 and third place will win $1,000.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $3,000 iGEM 124
2 $2,000 alpha Kappa Delta Phi 81
3 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 75
4 Lick Observatory 67
5 Acquire A Cappella 44
Ended
Leaderboard
Equity and Inclusion Challenge
The group with the most donors will receive $1,500, with second place receiving $1,000.
Rank Prize Department Donors
1 $1,500 alpha Kappa Delta Phi 81
2 $1,000 Acquire A Cappella 44
3 Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program 20
4 ACE Program 18
5 Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA) 14
Ended
Leaderboard
Surprise Challenge
Surprise! The project with the most gifts between 4 and 8 p.m. on April 6th will receive $1,500. Second place will receive $1,000 and third will get $500.
Rank Prize Department Gifts
1 $1,500 Santa Cruz Artificial Intelligence Club (SCAI) 16
2 $1,000 Men's Club Lacrosse 13
3 $500 Acquire A Cappella 10
4 Lick Observatory 7
5 KZSC 88.1FM 6
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Participating Groups
ACE Program Acquire A Cappella alpha Kappa Delta Phi Archaeological Research Center Cantu Queer Resource Center Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions CIED's GetVirtual Program CIDER - Student Drone Training El Centro Student Professional Development Fund Equestrian Club Fish Rap Live! Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA) Advancing Anti-racist Practices in Genomics Graduate Student Peer Mentorship Program HistCon Graduate Students' Research Travel Fund Hummingbird Computational Cluster iGEM KZSC 88.1FM Lick Observatory Men's Club Lacrosse Men's Volleyball On the Spot Pinniped Lab at Long Marine Laboratory Slug Support Santa Cruz Artificial Intelligence Club (SCAI) Slug Bike Life Slug Life Productions Board SlugSat Sol Ultimate Frisbee Tech4Good Student Programs Gary Griggs Fund: Earth Sciences Student Research UCSC Ice Hockey Club UCSC National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) UCSC RUGBY WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) Women's Lacrosse Team Women’s Club Soccer
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