Game Creation Society is a student-run organization at Carnegie Mellon University, dedicated to the art and science of making games. Composed of individuals from all across the academic spectrum, GCS provides an environment for people of various disciplines to work together on projects as they would in a real development environment. Whatever your talents are, if you are interested in making games we can find a role for you!

If you want to get involved, come to a weekly meeting, join our mailing list, or contact an officer!

Recent News Posts

Spring 2013 Gold Winners

Submitted by jthreefoot on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 15:41

This semester's winners for GCS Gold are ROB and Retrograde! Congratulations!

Also, thanks again to Schell Games for sponsoring Release again for us!

This wraps up another exciting semester of GCS. Have a good summer, and we hope to see you all again in the fall!

Kickstarter Contest

Submitted by jthreefoot on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 13:01

Yesterday we had our first ever Kickstarter Contest, in which entrants pitched a project to the club as if they were pitching to investors. The winner was Matt Becker, with his presentation for his semester project ROB. Congrats!

Next week is Release! Woo! Schell Games is sponsoring it again this semester, which is awesome. There will be food and games and good company, so bring all your friends and share the GCS love.

Re-Pitch Contest

Submitted by jthreefoot on Fri, 03/22/2013 - 19:01

The winner of today's Re-Pitch contest was the King's Ascent team!

Our next contest is going to be a normal contest. The theme is:

If Video Games Were Invented In the Victorian Era
Game: [the theme]
Art: Victorian game store
Sound: Ye olde tunes

Everyone should make a thing!

Cyberpunk Contest

Submitted by jthreefoot on Sat, 02/23/2013 - 00:55

Today we wrapped up our Cyberpunk contest. The winners were:

Game: Tim Vaughan
Art: Katie Nestor
Music: Ben Lanier

Congrats to the winners and to everyone else who entered, too, you all made awesome things!

The next contest is going to be something new. It's going to be a pitch contest, where entrants re-pitch their semester projects (or alternatively, some other project, old or current or new), showing off whatever they've made so far (art assets, playable demos, music, etc.). Best pitch wins.

Prehistoric Contest

Submitted by jthreefoot on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 20:41

Today we wrapped up the first contest of the semester. The theme was Prehistoric. And the winners were...
Game: Tim Vaughan
Art: a tie between Anton Pleshakov and MacKenzie Bates
Music: Ben Lanier

Congrats to the winners! And to everyone else who submitted something as well, because honestly, all of the entries were pretty cool!

The next contest theme is Cyberpunk.
Game Modifier: Movie-style hacking
Art Modifier: Cyborg
Music Modifier: Electronic

As before, everyone should make a thing! Please?