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

This Week in GCS

Submitted by tvaughan on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 14:56

1. Our meeting is this Friday at in NSH 3002 @ 5. NOT 4:30! Which leads into the next point...

2. DoubleFine speaker! Anna Kipnis from DoubleFine (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Happy Action Theater, Stacking, Trenched, The Cave, etc) is going to be speaking to GCS this Friday over Skype. This is a new thing for us, and if it works out we'll probably try to do more Skype speaker talks in the future. Anna will be talking about her experiences at DoubleFine, about setting up MolyJam (a game jam centered around the tweets of a parody Twitter account of Peter Molydeux), and will be answering questions. Additionally, one of our GCS alums (Duncan Boehle) will also be around to answer questions at the end of the talk. :)

3. Board games! We're gonna play board games after the talk. I'm bringing a few (Dixit, Once Upon a Time) and other people are bringing some. If you have a game you want to play, go ahead and bring it.

Meeting Notes / Announcements

Submitted by tvaughan on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 17:35

Announcements

1. GameMaker Workshop - Saturday 4-6pm in Gates 4 Computer Cluster

2. "Get a job" Workshop - Sunday 4pm - 5:15pm in GHC 4101

3. Introduction to LucasFilm - Monday 5-6pm in GHC 4401 (Rashid Auditorium)

4. Double Fine talk! - Next week's meeting, Friday 4:30- 5:30pm, location TBA

Contest Stuff!

Bruce's game, "All it Takes" (available to play on the contest forum post), narrowly beat out the competition for a win in the "A game you can only play once" contest.

The next competition theme is Dover Beach. The competition will end in two weeks, on 10/19/12.
Game: Ignorant armies clash by night
Art: darkling plain
Sound: With tremulous cadence slow, and bring / The eternal note of sadness in

This week in GCS

Submitted by tvaughan on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 18:11

1. Meeting w/ Guest Speaker
9/28 Friday, 4:30pm, Rashid (GHC 4401)
We'll be having our weekly meeting with project updates and a special guest speaker; Rob Shillingsburg of Jetbolt Games will be coming with some past interns to talk about the process of making an MMO. He was one of the pioneers behind Realm of the Mad God.

2. GameMaker Workshop with Katie and Connor
9/29 Saturday, 4pm, Gates 4th floor cluster
GameMaker is a program which you can use both to make lefit games with little coding and to prototype design ideas for bigger game projects very quickly. If you'd like to come bring your laptop and install GameMaker beforehand! The workshop will be using the latest version.

3. Get Hired in Games d-list
Right now, all the time, everywhere

Also, New Contest

Submitted by tvaughan on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 18:02

"A game you can only play once"
Art modifier: "To touch it is to destroy it"
Sound modifier: "This message will self-destruct in..."

The creator(s) of the best game entry will receive $20 toward a game on Steam, so check out the forum post here if you're interested in entering.

The Meeting Where I Was Not

Submitted by tvaughan on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 18:20

I was in Seattle last week, so I missed the meeting. I heard there was a title screen and some rad art.

Anyway, news:

GameMaker Workshop with Katie Chironis
Website - GameMaker: Studio
Time and Location TBA, but coming soon.

Also, we're going to try and make a calendar of the regularly scheduled meeting times for this semester's projects to help with scheduling things like the above workshop. That e-mail will be going out soon-ish.

See you Friday!
-Tim