We are Game Design and Art Collaboration (GDA)! We were founded in January 2015, by a small group of UC Santa Cruz students. Our mission statement is to promote the collaborative work of artists, musicians, programmers, and game designers, with an emphasis on networking and skill-sharing. That involves a few programs:
Over the course of every school year, we run the Mock Studio, where students pitch and then develop game(s) that we work on as a community. The Mock Studio is great for learning about the process and production of game-making from start to finish, and we highly recommend it; as a nice bonus, you’ll have a demo game to show off at the end of every school year!
We also run a variety of workshops and game jams separately from the Mock Studio to build game development skills.
Contact us if you have any questions!
GDA Officers
Our current officers are:
President – Tiana Chamsi
Community Manager – Saira “Sai” Hamid
Design Officer – Tori Moore
Design Officer – Jessica Yoon
Design Officer – Alexa Medina
Sound Officer – Vinh Ta
Programming Officer – Ivy Dudzik
Writing Officer – Seren Becker
Writing Officer – Celine Lafosse
Webmaster – Rohan Venkatapuram
Previous Officers
Our club wouldn’t be where it is today without the hard work of our previous officer crews as well, so special thanks to everyone below!
Vice-President (2020-2022), Art Officer (2020-2023), Writing Officer (2022-2023) – Andrew Dunne
Art Officer (2021-2023) and Vice President (2022-2023) – Annie Zhang
Programming Officer (2022-2023) – Calex Raffield
Design Officer (2021-2023) – Nik Thomas
Sound Officer (2021-2023) and Vice President (2022-2023) – Parmpreet Gill
Writing Officer (2022-2023) – Ryan McCarty
Community Manager (2022-2023) – Sophie Martin
Production Officer (2021-2023) – Zoey Laytart
Design Officer (2021-2022) – Cameron Beattie
Production Officer and Outreach Coordinator and Event Coordinator (2020-2021), President (2021-2022) – Eric Long
Programming Officer (2021-2022) – Joshua Augenstein
Logistics Officer and Treasurer (2021-2022) – Naman Bushan
Webmaster (2020-2021), Vice President and Production Officer (2021-2022) – Ryoma Marta-Sugawara
Production Officer and Outreach Coordinator and Event Coordinator (2020-2021) – Dallas Truong
Sound Officer (2020-2021) – Enrico Widodo
Shadow Art Officer (2020-2021) – Herman Wu
Vice-President and Co-Writing Lead (2019-2020), President and Writing Officer (2020-2021) – Jeven Zarate-McCoy
Treasurer (2019-2021) and Interim Archiver (2020-2021) – Justin Hammer
Sound Lead/Officer (2018-2021) – Madeleine Glenn
Design Officer (2020-2021) – Ricky Chavez
Webmaster (2019-2020), Programming Officer (2020-2021) – Thomas Applewhite
(First) Production Lead and Archiver and Outreach Coordinator (2019-2020) – Charles Miller
Design Lead (2019-2020) – Gigi Bachtel
Co-Programming (2019-2020) – Seiji Emery
Vice-President (2018-2019), President and Co-Programming Lead (2019-2020) – Valentino Abate
Archiver/WebMaster (2018-2019) – Eric Mitchell
Outreach (2017-2018), Co-Art Lead and Treasurer (2018-2019) – Gian Paredes
Event Coordinator (2017-2018), President (2018-2019) – Liam Dugard
Co-Art Lead (2018-2019) – Muhammad Al-Suwaidi
Outreach (2017-2018) – Aubrey Isaacman
Outreach (2017-2018) – Christopher Paz
Treasurer (2017-2018) – Edmond Le
Sound Lead (2017-2018) – Fernando Zamora
Event Coordinator (2017-2018) – Ian Rapoport
Archiver (2017-2018) – Jon Alancantara
Vice President (2017-2018) – Kyle Oppenheim
Art Lead (2017-2018) – Linda Nguyen
Event Coordinator (2017-2018) – Nicholas Ho
President (2017-2018) – Nicole Maines
President (2014-2017) – Allyssa
Sound Lead (2017) – Zane Gregorian
Webmaster – Daniel C.