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

Pitch Fair

Submitted by tvaughan on Fri, 09/14/2012 - 17:23

Hey ya'll! We had a meeting! Ben Sand came from Brainworth to talk about a new community-sourced game platform for teaching programming skills. Then we had project pitches:

Projects
Galactic Trail
Lead: Mark Slabinski
Short (10-15 min play time), Open Art Style, Oregon Trail style gameplay with an added layer of character on top of it.

LaserFlank
Lead: Gregory Rose
Colored circles bouncing around the screen, try to toggle them all using simultaneously firing lasers. Lots of options for expansion from the core concept. (4 hours a week, 1-2 months dev time)

Outfit Swap / Outfitter
Lead: Rosstin Mu
Swap outfits with NPCs to work your way from lowly hobo to President of the United States. HTML5 mobile game, portfolio material.

The Sheep Punching Game (Bleat Beater)
Lead: Katie Chironis
3D Puzzle game in Unity, very open design goals. Main goal: fun to play. New member friendly.

Loginquintas
Lead: Ben Lanier

We are in a meeting! Right Now!

Submitted by tvaughan on Fri, 09/07/2012 - 17:12

Really! It's true. Welcome to meeting 1 of the Carnegie Mellon Game Creation Society!

If you like making games, keep an eye open for the following upcoming things:

1. Pitch Fair, Friday, September 14, NSH 3305 - Everyone interested in pitching a game for your fellow GCS members to work on should go to the following form and fill it out here.

2. EA Q&A Event, Wednesday, September 12th, NSH 3305 - Electronic Arts is coming to speak and answer questions for our illustrious and powerful club! There will be swag and food.

Welcome back!

Submitted by tvaughan on Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:56

Hey members, great to see you at Meeting 0 last week! We'll be at the Activities Fair tomorrow (feel free to drop by), and there will also be a meeting in Rashid Auditorium this Friday. If you feel like bringing a game, the current contest theme, thanks to Clyde, is:

"This is not what I came out west for"

Interpret it how you will. We'll see you at the meeting!

-Tim

Cram Session and Release

Submitted by tvaughan on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 17:52

We'll be having a last-minute pre-release cram session on Thursday at 6 PM in the alumni lounge in the UC. It'll go until everyone has left.

Release will be Friday at 4:30pm, so definitely have a working build by then! And project leaders, be ready to deliver a post-mortem about your project.

Collab Session

Submitted by tvaughan on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 15:25

Hey everybody! We're having a collab session tomorrow, Saturday 4/28, from 12 to 6 pm in NSH 3305. There will be food.

This is a great opportunity to get things done before release and hang out with friends for 6 hours, so we hope to see you there!