What is Game Devision?

A project-based game development program for high school students. Learn how to create video games from concept to completion, enriched by next-level access to industry professionals and academic affiliations.

What do we do?

Project-based learning curriculum consists of student-led game jams, milestone check-ins, module tutorials, metacognitive brainstorms, and advanced collaborative discussions.

Game Jam

An event where programmers, designers, artists, writers, and sound engineers — often in teams — aim to create a video game within a short span of time.

• Brainstorm
• Prototype
• Build
• Publish

Who is this for?

You can join. We enroll absolute beginners, self-taught students, serious student dev teams, and entire school cohorts. Video games are a mixture of technical engineering and artistic expression. This program welcomes everyone who wants to put their talents towards game development.

Why are we doing this?

Support is very limited for game development at the high school level. There are many students whose love of playing games has grown into an intense desire to make them. However, where do you begin to make games in an enormous, challenging, multi-disciplinary artistic and technical world? Students who tried to learn on their own told us that they benefit tremendously from the structure, support, and community this program has to offer.

How do we do this?

Online

You can do game dev in the comfort of your own home. We understand how important it is to learn modern soft skills like remote project management, at-home productivity, and collaboration. Milestone check-ins, discussions, office hours, guest speakers, and help chat all take place on our moderated, invitation-only Discord server.

In-person

Many industry events happen right here! Game Devision is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area — a well-established center of AAA game studios, professional independent studios, and countless aspirational indie devs. We are constantly on the lookout for age-appropriate events for our students, including academic associations with nearby secondary schools.