Jacksonville Game Developers & Designers

Game developers, designers, artists, modders, and future creators — welcome! 🎮

Jacksonville Game Developers & Designers is a local community for anyone interested in making video games.

Whether you’re an experienced developer, an indie creator working on your first game, a 3D artist, programmer, animator, modder, or someone who has always wanted to learn how games are made, you’re welcome here.

Our goal is simple: bring Jacksonville’s game creators together to learn, collaborate, share our work, and help each other improve.

What We’ll Do

🎮 Project Showcases
Bring what you’re working on! Members can showcase games, prototypes, environments, character models, animations, mods, mechanics, or even early ideas and get feedback from other creators.

🛠️ Game Engine Discussions
Share experiences, workflows, tips, and tricks from engines and development tools such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, and others.

🎨 3D Modeling & Animation
Talk about Blender, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, character creation, rigging, animation, environments, optimization, texturing, and more.

💻 Programming & Game Systems
Discuss AI, combat systems, UI, procedural generation, shaders, optimization, tools, gameplay mechanics, and the technical side of building games.

🧩 Game Modding
Interested in creating mods for existing games? Modders are welcome too. Share what you’re building, the tools you’re using, and what you’ve learned.

💡 Tips, Tools & Resources
Discover new software, assets, plugins, AI tools, workflows, tutorials, and techniques that can make game development faster and easier.

🤝 Meet Other Jacksonville Creators
Find programmers, artists, designers, writers, musicians, voice actors, and other creators who might complement your skills.

You Don’t Need Experience

Never made a game before? That’s completely fine.

If you’ve been thinking about learning Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, game programming, 3D modeling, animation, or modding but don’t know where to start, come meet people who are already doing it.

You don’t need to work for a game studio.

You don’t need a finished game.

You don’t even need to know how to code.

You just need an interest in creating games.