What is GDA?

Game Design and Art Collaboration

At UC: Santa Cruz, we have a student organization of 200+ game developers who create one large game project in a mock studio environment. I am the current president leading the internal logistics of our 20+ person production team, running meetings, and performing work-life balance check-ins with the team.

We are broken into 6 departments (Design, Programming, Art, Writing, Sound, and Production) and I operate as an organizer and mediator between all 6.

Core contributions:

• Unity and C# training for 60+ students.
• Conflict resolution across development teams.
• Developing production sprints and roadmaps
• Code review and merging 180+ branches.
• Run meetings for the core production team and general development meetings.

Malisense:

Malisense is the last game we built! On this project, I helped lead the programming production team and merged over 80+ pull requests.