About the club
The Yolo County Video Game Design Club is a hands-on program that teaches game design the way games are really made: in teams, with real tools, toward something finished and playable.
The club
It began at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis, where students meet twice a week in a lab of gaming PCs. Since then the club has published games on itch.io and GX.games, built a festival edition of a student game for the Zombie Bike Parade, and grown a student studio for alumni who want to keep building. We also run clubs at other schools, adapted to their schedule and technology, and private sessions at home.
Aaron Wedra
Aaron Wedra founded the club and chairs it. He graduated from Da Vinci in its first class, in 2006, and has worked since in graphic design, web design, marketing, event planning and community advocacy through Smartz Graphics. He directs the annual Zombie Bike Parade Festival in Davis and designed the board game Coffee Time, whose video game adaptation, Coffee Time Adventures, is in the arcade.
Davis makes games
Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve and the person behind Steam, Half-Life and Portal, graduated from Davis Senior High School in 1980. Games get made here.
