Sacramento Developer Collective

Progressive Game Jam
2019-06-15 12:00 - 18:00, 2019-05-18 12:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hacker Lab, 2533 R St Suite 120, Sacramento, CA, 95816, United States
Now extended until August!
In its 5th year, the Progressive Game Jam is an ongoing annual game jam designed to provide participants with a team and enough time necessary to make a quality video game in 9 months.
The Sacramento Developer Collective and Square One Clubs are once again hosting this year’s PGJ, and we’ll provide guidance and mentoring, and a place to meet once a month for the next 9 months.
The Progressive Game Jam is a 9 month long game jam where you work with a dedicated team on a single video game. The goal is to build as complete a video game as possible in that time, and to gain valuable development skills, and learn just what it takes to make a full video game. The Sacramento Developer Collective and Square One Clubs are dedicated to helping you along the way by providing guidance, mentorship, and support to help you achieve your goal.
This event is free and open to everyone. All skills are welcome, whether you are a programmer, artist, level designer, sound engineer, storyteller, or simply just want to help provide ideas for a game. That includes all skill-levels from novice to expert, or maybe you are just learning and looking for a great place to start. Everyone is welcome.
If you have equipment or software, you are encouraged to bring them. Laptops work great. Papers and pens do too! If you don’t, that’s OK too. Your creative ideas and input are still valuable, and usually someone on your team will share or let you work with them. Square One Clubs will provide enough electricity and high-speed Internet for everyone. We’ll also have whiteboards available for brainstorming ideas.
From time to time, we’ll have a sponsor bring in lunch, but generally lunch is your responsibility. Check on the event pages for those lunch opportunities before you come. You are welcome to bring food and drink to eat, and there are several venues in the area around Square One Clubs. We’ll have them posted for your convenience.
While we encourage you to show up for the first event where games are pitched and teams are formed, if you just can’t make it, don’t worry. Teams tend to change a little throughout the event, and it’s always possible to come in late and join a team.
Good Luck to the Class of 2019!

SDC Play and Learn at Hack the Park Fest
2019-06-01 10:00 - 14:00 | North Laguna Creek Park, 6400 Jacinto Avenue, Sacramento, CA, 95823, United States
The Sacramento Developer Collective will be presenting a Play and Learn workshop at Square Root Academy’s Hack the Park Festival this year, where you can play Coder Bunnyz, a board game that teaches you principles of coding. We will also have Code Mindz that teaches AI (Artificial Intelligence) principles, Zapbox augmented reality for your iPhone or Android, and a Virtual Reality gaming experience with Oculus Go.
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SDC Social Mixer at Coin-Op
2019-05-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Coin-Op Game Room, 908 K Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
Come join us to hang out with old friends or meet new friends at the next SDC Social Mixer. This time around, we’ll be hosting it from Coin-Op Game Room in downtown Sacramento for a night of fun AND games!

Launch the Lab
2019-05-02 17:30 - 20:00 | Lab 7, 2417 21st Street, Sacramento, CA, United States
Square Root Academy is Launching Lab 7 and want you all there! Join us for our community introduction and STEM-tastic sneak-peek Open House.
Lab7 is a tech+creativity space which will operate both as a coworking facility and community education hub. Through Lab7 Square Root Academy will run FREE digital literacy and tech courses for the community in a effort to engineer equity and development.
Our Launch the Lab event will feature food, drink, live music, a photo booth, a rocket launch and hands-on science experiments. We will also have interactive booths from our partners – Hope Tech Sacramento, MakerHQ, Sacramento Developer Collective and Bigger Than Us Arts – providing robotics, video game creation, live music and more!
Launch the Lab is our preview event, purposed to introduce our vision to the community and fund-raise through Big Day of Giving to initiate the launch sequence.
The event is FREE and all are welcome!(Still need convincing?…There may be an appearance from some furry friends all geared up and ready for a space walk/wag.)

Sound Design Workshop
2019-04-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Media Posse Studio, 1250 Sutterville Road, Suite 230, Sacramento, CA, 95822, United States
SDC is hosting an educational workshop at Media Posse Studios in Sacramento with Michelle Fuzari from EA Capital Games. Michelle will show you how to effectively use sound and audio to get the most out of your game design.
About your Instructor
Michelle Fuzari is currently an Audio Artist II at EA Capital Games in Sacramento working on the mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. She has been in the gaming industry for over 4 years at Electronic Arts. She got her start as an intern at EA Mythic in Virginia working on the PC game Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes and the mobile game Ultima Forever. From there she went to EA Salt Lake in Utah and worked on the two mobile games Minions Paradise and Pets: Unleashed.
Michelle has always been a gamer at heart, getting her start by watching her father play the games Myst and Doom when she was a child. When she learned that the University of Utah offered a gaming program she immediately jumped on board. During her time as an undergrad and graduate student at the University of Utah, there weren’t any audio programs nor was anyone in the gaming program doing audio. So, she took it upon herself to learn the trade as she had always been interested in the world of sound, and her career took off from there.
