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New to ACM Studio?

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No experience needed

No strict attendance

You'll finish a real game

What we run

Ways to get started

Join the Discord

Takes a minute

Announcements, meet fellow game-jammers, and play games with us. If you love a game, chances are there's a board member that loves it too.

Join the Discord

Game jams

One weekend

For the people who can't afford quarter-long projects. A low-time-investment gamedev experience where you cram a full game in 48 hours. Show up, get assigned to a team, and make something. Any and all skillsets are welcome.

How game jams work

Workshops

An hour a week

Weekly guided labs that take you from an empty project to a finished game over the quarter. Earn prizes by going to workshops consistently!

ENGR 1GD

A course, for credit

Navigate your way through Boelter hall once a week to attend a class on game development. Covers similar content to workshops. Ends off with a capstone project where you form teams and make your own game!

Students Run Studios

Winter & spring

Two quarters in a small student-run studio team. A longer-paced, more in-depth version of game jams/workshops. Make a full game and show it off at Spring Showcase!

Fall quarter

Where to find us first

Enormous Activities Fair (EAF)

September 22 · 11am – 2pm

Royce Quad & Wilson Plaza

Come find our booth and say hi. Get an introduction to ACM studio.

Fall General Meeting

September 30 · 6pm – 8pm

Ackerman Grand Ballroom

Our kickoff for the year. Learn how to get involved with ACM studio & about our initiatives.

ACM Studio GM

October 7 · 7pm – 9pm

Engineering VI Mong Auditorium

Learn about all the ACM studio initiatives & how you can participate in game dev.

First Workshop!! (intro to game design)

October 12 · 6pm – 8pm

Kerkhoff Stateroom

Come to our first workshop of the year and learn about game design!

What's coming up as the quarter kicks off. Unless one says otherwise, there's nothing to sign up for — just show up.

ACM General Meeting

October 2nd, 6 - 8 PM

Engineering VI Mong Learning Center

This is the general meeting for all of ACM, where each of the subcommittees will be presenting! Be sure to come see us then, where we'll be talking about our plans for fall quarter!

Studio Fall General Meeting

October 7th, 7 - 9 PM

Engineering VI Cohen Multipurpose Room

This will be Studio's first meeting of the year! We'll be going a lot more in depth into the specific plans for the quarter and coming school year, including our new Studio Black Belts Initiative.