The Video Game Development Workshop Series aims to foster a community of like-minded video game developers, as well as teach video game design and development aspects, and serve to be a dedicated time and place for students to start working on their own video games. The workshops primarily focus on the GameMaker engine, but students are free to work in whatever engine they would like.
The workshops are hosted every Thursday at 4:30pm in Main 139 and run for about an hour.
At the end of each academic session, students are welcome to show off their projects at the Workshop Showcase, where they showcase and talk about their projects and allow other students to download and provide feedback on games they've made.
Jason Farnsworth is a Computer Science student at Randolph College. He is involved with the Society of Physics Students club, as well as tutoring for Academic Strategies and Computer Science. He founded the Video Game Development Workshop Series with Dr. Spendlove, and plans to work in video game development as a career.
Jerred Peacock is a Cybersecurity & Cognitive Science student at Randolph College. He is involved with the Society of Physics Students club and the SUPER Honors Program. He is inheriting the Workshop Leader role after Jason's graduation as he has had a lifelong love of video games and wants to share how to make them. He is pursuing a cybersecurity position after college.
Dr. Brad Spendlove is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Randolph College. His research expertise is in Computer Creativity, and he has led research projects centered around Large Language Models and Optical Character Recognition. He leads the Video Game Development Workshop Series meetings with Jason Farnsworth.