Welcome Wizard, To The Indie Game Academy! Here, Game Dev Dreams Become Realities!
Jumpstart your career as an indie developer with the help of our cutting-edge game development bootcamp! Indie Game Academy’s elite program will give you the tools, resources, and guidance you need in order to learn how to develop your own game in record time.
Learn From Industry Veterans With Courses That Will Unlock Your Potential
Indie Game Academy’s lineup of curated game development courses have been designed to help game developers across levels and verticals to hone and enhance both their abilities and experience.
Through a combination of hands-on, group and lecture-based classes, students learn from industry veterans about the entire game development pipeline–ideation through release. And best of all, leave with a fully-monetized published game!
A Proprietary Curriculum That Works
Each Indie Game Academy class features a constantly-evolving platform-agnostic proprietary curriculum that is designed to help students at every level make the games they want to make and feel fully supported while doing it.
Every course is taught live by professionals with unparalleled industry knowledge equipped to teach students about the entire game development pipeline. Students are guaranteed to leave with a fully-playable game at every level, and learn how to take their creative visions further beyond our courses. Whether it’s about landing your first or next interview, learning how to market the product you’ve created, or mastering a pitch to a publisher, we can show you how to get there.
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Why do engineers, writers, designers, and students love Indie Game Academy?
Abram Buck
Game Developer
Kirk Allgeyer
Game Developer
Colleen Tulowitzki
Game Developer
Let us tailor the perfect program for you!
Embark
Game Industry Taster Sign Up on Eventbrite Before September 7th
What You’ll Get
- Learn the Basics of Game Development While Making a Simple Game
- Intro to Game Design
- Fundamentals of Project Management
- Intro to Visual Design in Games
- Intro to Narrative Design in Games
- How to Network in the Game Industry
- Resume and Portfolio Fundamentals
- What to Do Next
$50
Explore
Discover Your Vertical Register before September 16th, 2024
What You’ll Get
- Learn How to Work as a Solo-Dev Ready to Tackle Any Game Jam
- One Month Tech-Tool Deep Dive
- Intro to Game Engine
- Intro to Ticketing Software
- Intro to Source Control
- Build a Fully Featured Game (The Genre Changes Every Cohort)
- Focus on the Vertical That Excites You Most, the Whole Game is Pre-Built!
- Publish Your Custom Game Online!
- Work Alongside Peers Under the Guidance of an Industry Pro
Scholarships available!
$1,800
Publish
Video Game Accelerator Registration Date (TBA)
- Publish your first game to Android, iOS, Steam, and more
- Run your own Indie Studio with 4-6 teammates
- Four Months of Live Lessons from 7 Industry Gurus
- Earn the IGA Level 3 Certificate
- Engineer, Design, Write and more for your team
- Monetize your game and charge money for it
- Advanced Game Design
- Advanced Indie Game Business
- Advanced Indie Game Marketing
- Pitch your game to a live audience of peers, publishers, and more
Scholarships available!
$5,400
A Game Dev Bootcamp Like No Other!
At the Indie Game Academy we not only make games, we embody them, too! When enrolling in a course you’ll be sorted into your very own magical house where you’ll be instantly connected to a growing network of other talented wizards.
Through a combination of hands-on, group and lecture-based classes, students learn from industry veterans about the entire game development pipeline–ideation through release. And best of all, leave with a fully monetized published game!
Success and Cleverness
- Rogues are primarily focussed on making successful games
- Rogues solve their problems with more flexibility than other Houses
- Rogues like to play games to win
Winners of the 4th and 6th House Cups
Exploration and Imagination
- Rangers are primarily focussed on making unconventional games
- Rangers love to learn new skills and are highly experimental
- Rangers like to play narrative and open world games
Winners of the 2nd and 3rd House Cups
Heroism and Hard Work
- Warriors are primarily focussed on making fun games
- Warriors are excellent at putting their heads down and working hard
- Warriors like to play more classic adventure and action games
Yet to win a House Cup
Success and Cleverness
- Rogues are primarily focussed on making successful games
- Rogues solve their problems with more flexibility than other Houses
- Rogues like to play games to win
Winners of the 1st and 5th House Cups
Don’t Just Take Our Word For it!
Hear what our students say about their experience.
Full disclosure; this was the best blessing I've had the opportunity to receive in recent time. One inquiry, two meetings and some communication later and now I'm here. And I wouldn't want to change it or where I am now for anything.
Graduate & Indie Game Developer
Indie Game Academy has been vital to my growth and development as a game writer and narrative designer. I’ve had the privilege of taking all three levels, and walked away from each one with the essential knowledge, tools, and skills needed to continually further my career. Because of what I learned at the Indie Game Academy, I now have multiple game credits to my name and that list just keeps growing! Anyone looking to level up as a game dev, should look no further than IGA!
Graduate & Senior QA Analyst @ Zynga
I'm very excited that I recently got a test engineering job at a company making VR concert experiences. During my interviews, I was questioned more than once about my current endeavor with the Indie Game Academy and doing Unity programming in a group project. I believe it directly impacted me getting the job.
Graduate & Indie Game Studio Founder
As a graduate of all three Levels, I can safely say this is the most supportive community I've had the pleasure of working with. By the end of the coursework, I was completely prepared to start my own studio, with a solid background in game development, marketing, social media, business dev, and pitching. So I did: I founded Sea Stories Creative Studios LLC and we're bringing our exciting Chronicles of the Stellar Drive Empireâ„¢ franchise to life through games!
Kirk Allgeyer
Graduate & Indie Game Developer