About

The Brown RISD Game Developers club is a joint effort between Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (and more recently Berklee College of Music) to produce games. We work primarily to grow talent in artists, programmers, game designers, and sound designers and provide a structure for them to practice their skills. Each semester, we split our members - ranging from 30-80 students depending on time of year - into 3-6 smaller groups. These groups then spend the entire semester concepting, ideating, and then developing their own game from scratch culminating in an end of semester public playtesting event. Veteran members are there to guide newer members and teach them how to use the applications that we use (such as Unity or Github or Maya).

I joined the EBoard of BRGD after my first year in the club, and as a member of the EBoard, I've been responsible for organizing meetings, speakers, and playtesting events as well as creating workshops to teach skills to new members. I'm available as a resource to up to 80 students hoping to become game developers. I have personally led five different teams during my three years in the club. And, while not all the projects turned out as well as others, each project taught me new lessons in programming, design, leadership, and production.

The more successful projects that I've worked on in BRGD have their own webpage dedicated to them. Below are the other projects that - though not as polished or enjoyable - led the way to where I am today as a game developer.