Resources

These are awards and honors that offer recognition and/or monetary prizing for personal or educational use. These are often one-time opportunities that require an application.

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• 1000 Dreams Fund Grants

• Activision Blizzard King Women in Games Scholarship

•  AIAS Foundation Scholarships

• AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships 

• ESA Foundation Scholarships

• Game Development World Championship Student Award

• Gen.G Foundation Scholarship

• Generation Google Scholarships

• IGF Best Student Game Award

• RPI GameFest Awards

• Society of Illustrators Scholarship

• TDC Scholarships

• Tribe Gaming Scholarships

• Women In Animation Scholarship

• Women In Games Scholarship 

• Young Ones Student Awards

These awards, funds, and tools go towards creating games projects or starting a business. These are generally open to non-students, so make sure your project is well-developed!

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• 3% Accelerator

• The Awesome Foundation

• Epic MegaGrants

• Fractured Atlas

• ID @ XBOX

• IGDA Diverse Game Developers Fund

• indieFund

• NYU Game Center Incubator

• Unity for Humanity Grant

• Y Combinator

These programs are educational or vocational in nature and require a longer-term commitment of usually a week to 2 years. Some you must be in school, others you must be out.

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• Breakthrough Tech NY Programs (CUNY)

• BRIC Youth Media Fellowship

• Code Coven (watch out for the Cosmic & Crystal Scholarship)

• CUNY Cultural Corps

• CUNY Service Corps

• CUNY Tech Prep and TTP

• Disney College Program

• Gameheads Classic (Oakland, CA)

• Gameheads Dev Ops (Oakland, CA)

• LA Arts Internship Program

• Made in NY Production Assistant Training Program

• Made in NY Post-Production Training Program

• NYC Animation Industry Access Series

• NYC Animation Project Training Program

• NYC Data Analyst Training Accelerator

• NYC Ladders for Leaders

• NYC Summer Youth Employment Program

• NYC Virtual Character Spotlight Series

• NYC Web Development Fellowship

• One Club Bootcamps

• OneSchool

• Parker Dewey Micro-Internships

• PerScholars

• Pixelles Game Writing Program

• Pursuit Tech Fellowship

• Recurse Center

• YDC Creative Apprenticeship Program

Visiting EGD? In NYC for a holiday? Live here? This is where you can find events, local groups, and hang out.
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• Babycastles (IRL location temp closed)

• BrookLAN

• Center for Communication

• Coexist

• GUMBO NYC

• Hex & Co

• IGDA NYC

• NYU Game Center

• NYC Indie Games Meetup

• NYC Unity Users Group

• NYU Game Center

• OS NYC

• The Uncommons

• Waypoint Cafe

• Wonderville NYC

These are free and low-cost annual events, or ways to attend or exhibit at them for free!

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• Adobe Summit

• Collegiate Rising

• Conference Associate Application for GDC

• CUNY Games Conference

• Game Devs of Color Expo

• GameSoundCon Diversity Scholarship

• Gen Con Event Team

• IGDA GDC Scholars Program

• IndieCade Horizons

• IndieCade Volunteering

• MAGStock Volunteering

• MAGWest Volunteering

• Metatopia Diversity Scholarship

• Maker Faire

• The Medieval Festival @ Fort Tyron Park

• PAX Enforcers (Available for East, West, and Unplugged)

• Pixelles GDC Scholars

• Sundance Volunteering

• Super MAGFest Volunteering

• SXSW Volunteer Crew

• Toomanygames Defenders

• Tribeca Film Festival (look for volunteer applications opening)

• UNIDOS Online

These are for educational purposes, networking, or have student communities.​

• 1000 Dreams Fund

• Activision Blizzard Collegiate

• Anykey

• AVGL

• Cloud9 University

• College Carball Association (Rocket League)

• The Collegiate Hub (Overwatch, mainly)

• CORSAIR

• NACE Starleague Esports

• EGD Collective

• Game Dev League

• Game Production Community

• GeForce Student

• The Genius League (Evil Geniuses)

• Global Game Jam

• GUMBO NYC

• Hitmarker

• IGDA

• IGDA Game Writing SIG

• Latinx in Gaming

• MSI Lucky's Academy

• NECC

• NYC Gaming

• Playcrafting

• RocGameDev (Rochester, NY)

• Space Productions - Broadcasting Tips

• Take This

• Tech Valley Game Space

• TSMU

• Queer Women of Esports

• Student Game Developers Association

• Voice of Intercollegiate Esports

• Wonderville NYC

• Work With Indies

These events allow you to work on projects by yourself or with a group. They may or may not have prizing attached, and often have workshops available. They may last a day to a month. 

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• Devpost Hackathons

• Global Game Jam

• Itch.io Jams

• Liquid Hacks

• Major League Hacking

• Black Collegiate Gaming Association Resume Submission

• Cleveland Clinic Esports Medicine Program

• CulturePass NYC

• ESA Policy Positions

• Maven Youth LGBT Summer Leadership

• NYIT Center for Esports Medicine

• Take This

• Twitch Student Program

• XBOX Creators Program

These organizations are professional in nature and often have student memberships at a discount.​

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• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

• ACM SIG CHI (Human Computer Interaction)

• ACM SIG GRAPH (Computer Graphics & Games)

• AIGA (American Institute for Graphic Arts)

• Alliance for Women in Media

• American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

• The Association for Performing Arts and Entertainment Professionals

• ASIFA - Atlanta

• ASIFA - Central (Midwest US)

• ASIFA - East (based in NYC, all east coast)

• ASIFA - Hollywood

• ASIFA - Portland

• ASIFA - San Francisco

• Bay Area Women in Film & Media

• Black N' Animated

• Digital Games Research Association

• Game Audio Network Guild

• Georgia Game Developers Association

• Graphic Arts Guild

• Higher Education Video Game Alliance

• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

• International Game Developers Association

• Latiinx in Animation

• Latinx in Gaming

• New York Women in Film & Television

• Noir Network

• Puerto Rico Game Developers Association

• Recording Academy - Grammy U

• Society of Camera Operators

• Themed Entertainment Association

• Women in Animation

• Women in Games International

• Women in Games WIGJ

• Women in Entertainment

• Women in Film

• Women in Toys, Licensing, and Entertainment

• Women's Audio Mission

These programs give you access to mentors to further your professional goals. 

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• 1000 Dreams Fund MentorHer

• Armor Games Studios Mentorship Program

• Asian Women Representation Gaming Mentorship Program

• Game Audio Mentoring

• Game Developer Advice Contact List

• IGDA Games Research and User Experience Mentor Program
  IGDA General Mentorship Program (must be IGDA member)

• IGDA Foundation Virtual Exchange

• Junior One Hundred Black Men Entrepreneurship Program

• Queer Women of Esports Mentorship Program

These online courses are available for you to do on your own time. They may lead towards a certificate, or may be purely for learning. Some have free trials or you may have free access through your local library or school.

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• CodeCademy

• Coursera

• CUNY Upskilling (open to all in NYC)

• edX Courses

• Flatiron School Free Lessons

• Forage (look for EA software engineering)

• Grow with Google

• Linkedin Learning

• Make School

• MIT Open Courseware

• Udemy Free Courses

These websites offer articles, tutorials, videos, and other resources.

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• Adobe Distance Learning

• Adobe Learn and Create for Social Justice

• Anykey DE&I in Gaming Resources

• Art ala Carte

• Audiokinetic Blog

• Berkley Bootcamp Coding

• BlkWmnAnimator

• Brackeys

• CSU Entertainment Alliance Inside the Industry

• Game Audio Learning

• Game Dev Advice: The Game Developers Podcast

• Game Makers Toolkit

• GamesBeat Summit 2021 Vault

• GDC Vault

• EDUCBA Design Tutorials

• Excel Easy

• Extra Credits

• Hitmarker Career Advice

• into Games (UK-based but great resource!)

• Just Esports Collegiate Handbook

• NYU Game Center Lecture Series

• Real Industry

• Small Business Toolkit: 60 Resources for Black Entrepreneurs

• Ted Talks

• TransPerfect Translation Resources

• Twitch Creator Camp

• Unity Learn

• Waffle Games 2021 Vault

• WomenWin Gender Justice Salon - Increasing Women in Games

• Xsolla Diamond Club Vault

These are design contests open to the public. Unlike scholarships they are not restricted to students. ​

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• The Game Crafter Community Contests

These organizations host regular live workshops or webinars.

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• BRICxHome Media Education Courses

• Digital Media Wire Events Emails Sign Up Form

• General Assembly

• The One Club

These are free, low-cost, or have free trials. ​

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• Autodesk

• Bensound.com

• Blender

• Canva

• Dolby On

• Fanatical

• fmod

• Freesound.org

• Free Stock Textures

• GameMaker Studio 2

• GIMP

• GitHub Student Developer Pack

• Inkscape

• OBS

• Open Game Art

• p5.js (and the p5.play library!)

• Pexels Free Textures

• Poliigon Free Textures & Models

• SoundDogs

• The Spriters Resource

• Stencyl

• Streamlabs

• Twine

• Unity

• Unity Asset Store

• Unreal Engine

• Wwise