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Students @ GDC

Your Community at the Game Developers Conference

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EGDorm @ GDC

Stay with fellow students, network, and make the most of your GDC experience with our affordable housing option! 

EGDorm will be located at HI Hostel Fisherman's Warf from March 8th to the 14th. 

Why stay with us?
 

  • $252 for the entire week!

  • Accompaniment to/from the airport

  • No true strangers -- all people staying in EGDorm are students, recent grads, or EGD staff/alumni. 

  • Built-in community!

You can always choose to book your own bed at HI, but you will get placed with random roommates. Joining our group means you'll be in one of our group rooms!

Deep Details

As of 12/16/2025 - we have space for 35 more people. We will request space from HI as needed as deposits come in. We are dedicated to helping every person find affordable housing for GDC, so if you find yourself in the waiting list, we will help you find  housing at the same price point - our overflow usually is 5ish blocks away at Samesun San Francisco.

EGD can buy out space room by room as deposits come in. After we confirm your spot, as long as we can find someone to replace you, we can honor refunds (which generally has been possible - we had a waiting list last year). You will get an email after paying the deposit from Springly, and within a week you will hear back from us on your status. Since we have to buy out the entire room, you might be on a waiting list until we can fill it. Full refunds are available until we confirm your room, at which point the replacement policy kicks in.

We can honor groups of 2-4 that want to stick together, and we'll make solo experiences as comfortable and inclusive as possible. If you have accommodation requests we will do our best to honor them (for example, if we have enough people we can designate a room as a lower-stimulation room, with low-lighting and extended quiet hours). There are a limited amount of ADA accessible rooms at HI. All requests should be emailed to gdc@egdcollective.org
 

While we welcome international travelers, we cannot sponsor visas or assist with that process.​

DORM FAQ:

I could book this place on my own, why should I do it through you guys?
Generally, you room with strangers at HI. There is no way to guarantee you'll be placed with peers. If beds get bought in a room before we buy out a room, that room is no longer able to be bought out by us (high chance for strangers). While HI is very safe, even with strangers, that can be intimidating! Grouping up with us ensures you'll at least be with other students/recent grads/early career professionals, and raises our chances that the majority of the place will be us!

Can I share the payment link? 
Yes, but we ask that anyone joining EGDorm also fill out the original google form so we can keep track of everyone.

What if you run out of space before I'm able to commit to a deposit?
We are dedicated to helping every person find affordable housing for GDC, so if you find yourself as part of the latter we will find overflow housing. We were able to find a secondary location at this price range near the main hostel only a few weeks prior to GDC (while it doesn't have memory foam mattresses like this one, it does the job). Our overflow usually is 5ish blocks away at Samesun San Francisco.

Any fine print?
For legal purposes, funds processed through our Springly portal are considered a charitable donation to the EGD Collective. All individuals who donate are considered full members of the EGD Collective for AY25-26 and will gain voting rights within the organization (whether or not you use them is up to you, but it allows us to keep everything tax free). 

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