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Student Run Studios

Each year, Studio splits into teams of students who work through the winter and spring quarters to put together an indie game. Students can apply to be team leads to pitch their idea to the club and have people join them to bring their game concept into reality!

Last year, we had over 100 students collaborate to make 11 finished games, all of which you can play on the official itch.io site!

See the 2024 entries on itch.io!

Schedule

Fall Week 3
Sat Oct 19 2024

Team Lead Seminar

Learn how to create a marketable idea and pitch it to the club!

Fall Week 4
Thu Oct 24 2024

Team Lead Seminar

Learn how to create a marketable idea and pitch it to the club!

Fall Week 4
Sat Oct 26 2024

Team Lead Seminar

Learn how to manage a team and create a project timeline.

Fall Week 4
Sat Oct 26 2024

Team Lead Applications Open

Fall Week 6
Sat Nov 09 2024

Team Lead Applications Close

Winter Week 0
Fri Jan 03 2025

Prototype Due

Team leads will have to submit a prototype of their game idea.

Winter Week 3
Fri Jan 24 2025

Pitch Event

Team leads will present their game ideas to the club

Winter Week 3
Fri Jan 24 2025

Member Applications Open

Members can request to join a team

Winter Week 4
Tue Jan 28 2025

Member Applications Close

Winter Week 5
TBD

Kickoff

Meet your team and start working on your game

Winter TBD

Winter Showcase

Showcase your progress during winter quarter

Spring TBD

Spring Showcase

The final showcase for your game

Join a Team

Interested in joining a team? Check out the teams below! We will have a pitch event where team leads will present their game ideas and you can join the team of your choice!

After the pitch event, will be able to fill out our SRS application form to join a team! Don't worry if you miss the pitch event, you can still join a team.

Too late for the application? You can still join a team! Either a team via our late-bird signup application or contact ACM Studio or a team directly to see if they have any open spots!

Current Cycle (2025)

Meet our teams this year!

Couch Potatoes

Leads: Rahul, Josh

A couch vs multiplayer game, taking inspiration from games like Mario Kart and Overcooked to amp up the yelling-at-your-friends experience to 11, with gameplay like towerfall and super smash bros but much more chaotic.

Memento Mori

Leads: Lea Soison

Themed around agents/spies as you take the position as a former top agent turned handler/mission control of a squad of 4 spies! It's main focus will be on choices and puzzles that determine mission success with a good amount of attention given to the 4 main interests and their story/romance routes over a series of missions. I'm also learning the basics to make it a chatsim / like those discord sim games!

POWERPLUSS GIRLS

Leads: Vaish, Allison, Anam, Defne

The player - a masked adventurer from the underground - is tasked with exploring the outside world, set in a post-climate change era. The player visits four different tribes from the outside world, each with unique characteristics. Acquainting themselves with each respective culture, going on side quests, interacting with unique, quirky NPCs, and ultimately finding the "orb" of each tribe, "AfterWorld" immerses the player in an experience like no other.

Psychonauts

Leads: Aubrey Clark, Rachel Jin, Harry Hinnman

Psychosis is a shooter hitman game where you are a random civilian taking hits seen from advertisements on social media, where you go through levels under the influence of game-changing drugs and use the money you get from hits to progressively buy stranger drugs and better equipment.

Team Beat

Leads: Aderyn, Woyu, Alani

Crybaby is a rhythm game about the ups and down of life and the tears we shed at our saddest and happiest moments. Your goal as the player is to try and stop the tears from overflowing while learning that maybe its okay to let it all out.

Team Human Resources

Leads: Lea Soison, Oscar, Branden

Genre: turn-based strategy RPG Theme: Commentary of the modern world that expects everyone to fit in Gameplay: turn-based strategy combat focusing on character synnergies and action commands

Team M&M

Leads: Miles Turner, Marissa Li

Faithless is a 3D first person shooter with melee combat where you play as the clairvoyant MC who is secretly dispatched to an abandoned continent filled with mobs and perished bounty hunters who were members of various factions. You receive remote guidance from a character with time manipulation abilities to find deceased bounty hunters, enter their perspective before death, gain their abilities/skills to level up, and defeat more mobs and bosses as checkpoints progress.

Interested in Leading a Team?

Leading a team is a great way to get your game idea made and develop your skills as a project manager!

To be qualified to lead a team, you must attend our fall quarter Team Lead Seminars, which go over skills like making a marketable game idea, pitching, and managing a team. In addition, you will have to provide a vertical-slice prototype of your game idea by Winter quarter.

You can also join a team as a member and work with the team lead to make their game idea a reality! Oftentimes members will have the opportunity to take on leadership roles as well.

Team lead applications are available in fall quarter, so keep an eye out for announcements about the application! If you have any questions about leading a team, feel free to reach out to ACM Studio!