Welcome to Hackubator

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IGA turns Students into Game Devs and Game Devs into Indie Studio Founders

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We are on a perpetual quest to empower the game creative to pave their own path

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We do it with a powerful three level system.

IGA Level 2: Explore

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• A five week Game Dev Deep Dive
• The Game Engine - Unity
• Source Control - Git
• Task Tracking
• Build a Full Game Demo
• Spend four weeks on tech essentials, and contribute most in your chosen discipline
• Publish your custom game online!
• Work alongside peers under the guidance of an experienced Game Developer

Course Overview

• IGA Level 2: Explore
• Nov 18rd - Dev 16th
• Tues + Thurs 6:30-8:30pm EST
• Build a Hollow Knight Clone!

IGA Level 1: Embark

IGA Level 1: Embark

Weeks 1-2: Unity Setup

• Start with a greyboxed version of your game, functional from Day 0
• Learn fundamentals of Unity by adding additional features and editing your world
• Learn fundamentals of Source Control with Git by creating a Repo and uploading your game

Week 3: Alpha

• Continue to build out more features of your game, touching upon 5 major disciplines as you go
• Game Design: Enemy design
• Visual Art: Character sprite implementation
• Narrative: Barks & lore
• Engineering: Additional Gameplay in C#
• Audio: Music & SFX implementation
• Level 2 is formulated so you can focus on the part of the game that excites you most!

Weeks 4: Beta Launch

• Spend your final week with your core professor to build and upload your game to Itch.io
• This better mimics what it’s like to be self employed in games
• It also means you have a shiny new game for your portfolio!
• Finish with a released 2D Platformer and an introductory understanding of your craft!
• Everything you need to solo dev and join game jams!

MORE thanks to SFCM

• We’ve partnered with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
• One of the most reputable music schools out there!
• We’ll be building our games based upon their creative prompt
• EVERY game will receive music and SFX support from their students
• A few games will receive ongoing support from their student body after the program closes!

IGA Level 2: Cohort 11

Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm EST / 3:30-5:30 PST

Thursday 6:30-8:30pm EST / 3:30-5:30 PST

Noc 3rd - Nov 26th

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Andy Lee

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“I'm very excited that I recently got a test engineering job at a company making VR concert experiences. During my interviews, I was questioned more than once about my current endeavor with the Indie Game Academy and doing Unity programming in a group project. I believe it directly impacted me getting the job.”

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Senior QA Analyst at Zynga

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Some Student Games!

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Exorcist - by Abram Buck

Spyro in Tokyo - by Pat Guillen

Monsters & Men - by Nicholas Gurley

Willem Delventhal

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• Your Level 2 Guide -

Ten year game industry veteran with credits from Paradox Interactive, Meta, IMVU and Lumosity as well as indie studio founder with Delve Bros and Taelmoor. Willem takes over teaching Level 2 classes when we are experimenting with new iterations of the curriculum.

You will receive…

• 8 live, 2 hour class sessions
• Valuable homework assignments between each class
• Access to our Virtual Castle and collaborative spaces
• Support resources including recordings, assignments and more
• A published 2D Platformers
• A community of wonderful, magical wizards
• Partnerships with SFCM students!
• And more!

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Pricing Structure

$1200

Monthly Payment Plan of 4 or 6 Months

$1080

One Time Payment

$300

Scholarships going as low as