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Track record

Two club seasons and a summer camp in Davis, California, and the games those students shipped. This is where DV Game Design comes from.

  1. 2026

    Tutoring opens to students worldwide

    Aaron moves to Braga, Portugal, and opens private game design tutoring on Zoom to students anywhere.

  2. 2026

    DV Studio forms

    Alumni, students and outside creators start building games together as a remote team.

  3. January 19 to May 28, 2026

    Second club season at Da Vinci

    Mondays and Thursdays, 3:30 to 5:00 pm, grades 9 to 12, in a lab of gaming PCs at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis, California. The season ended with Gaming Day, a game jam where everyone played what everyone made.

    Rows of gaming PCs in the Da Vinci lab, one showing the Duck Ship title screen
  4. A festival edition for the Zombie Bike Parade

    The club built a special edition of its Zombies game for the Zombie Bike Parade Festival in Davis. It is in the arcade as Da Vinci’s Zombies: Bike Parade Edition.

    Da Vinci’s Zombies: Bike Parade Edition
  5. June 16 to 27, 2025

    Free Game Design Summer Camp

    Two free weeks of game design at Da Vinci High School in Davis, weekdays 1:00 to 3:30 pm, for rising 8th to 12th graders.

    A student playtesting Duck Ship at a club PC
  6. Spring 2025

    First club season at Da Vinci

    Aaron founds the Yolo County Video Game Design Club at Da Vinci Charter Academy in Davis, California. Students publish their first games.

    Two students holding gold club medals in the Da Vinci game lab, with instructors behind them

The games

22 games came out of those seasons, published on itch.io and GX.games. All of them are free to play.

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What comes next

The same teaching, one student at a time, on Zoom.

How tutoring works

The Da Vinci club was a school program. Private tutoring is offered by Aaron Wedra on his own and is not associated with Da Vinci Charter Academy.