Student-Led Game Development
Get hands-on experience with making games! We are Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA), and we are in charge of a student-led game development community with over 100 active members every year. We emphasize hands-on experience and community collaboration with our Mock Studio.
In the Mock Studio, we make one game every school year for anyone interested in learning and getting experience in game development. Any student with an idea can pitch, and voting is open to anyone! Since our founding in 2015, we've developed a lot of games, all playable on 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, as well as experienced developers looking to expand their skills.
We're raising funds because our students and volunteers need a platform to make long-lasting connections and develop valuable game development skills with broad applications for their future.
Next-Level Game Development
All funds will go into making sure all our students have the best game development experience possible. They can learn not only from a wide variety of guest speakers and hands-on experiences, but also from curated events.
Funds will be used 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.
- Guest speakers and workshops
- We've had guest speakers who have worked at Google, Activision Blizzard, 2K, Insomniac, and more!
- We want to continue having great guest speakers, and their time is valuable.
- Minecraft!
- We have a Minecraft server for anyone interested in our club, so they can connect and get to know our members.
- 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 purchases
- We never know what might come up! Here are some of the things we've purchased specifically for the club in the past:
Thank you so much for your time and consideration. We thank you for any support you're willing to give!
