WiscoGameDev

Community driven repository for all resources pertaining to Game Development in Wisconsin.

Introduction

Game development has a decades long history in Wisconsin. The scene here exists in many forms: Educational, Indie, Analog, Digital, VR, AAA, and (probably?) more. This resource is meant to be a crowdsourced repository of information, usable for anybody in order to gather resources about game development in Wisconsin.

All games are welcome: digital, physical, and 👽!

If you have a suggestion, no matter how big or small, please contribute!

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• How to contribute
• Events
• Groups
• Publishers
• Studios
• School Programs

How To Contribute

This resources thrives on the input of the community!

If you'd like to add something to this resource, please look through our contribution file on how to do so.

Events

Key: 📍 Event Location

These are some of the larger events that occur in the area. For smaller meetup groups/events, check the groups section

• Games and Learning Society Conference
  • 📍 Madison
• Midwest Gaming Classic
  • 📍 Milwaukee

Groups

• Eau Claire Game Developers
• Madison Developer's Slack
• Madison Game Alliance
• Madison Game Design Cabal
• Madison Indies Group
• Madison VR Group
• MSOE Game Development Club and IGDA
• UW Madison Badger Game Network
• UW Stout IGDA

Publishers

• The Game Crafter

Studios

Key: 📍 Studio Location; 🎮 Notable Games (Try to limit this at 3 max); Only 'current' studios please.

• Creative Kingdoms
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 MagiQuest
• Field Day Labs
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Siftr
• Filament Games
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Reach For the Sun, Crazy Plant Shop
• Flippfly
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Race The Sun, Hexarden, Absolute Drift: Zen Edition
• Forever Interactive
  • 📍 Milwaukee
  • 🎮 Visions of Zosimos, Battle Gnomes, Infernal World
• GLS Studios
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Econauts, Progenitor X
• Guild Software
  • 📍 Milwaukee
  • 🎮 Vendetta Online
• Human Head Studios
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Rune, Prey
• Learning Games Network
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Zoombinis
• Perblue
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Parallel Kingdoms, Greed for Glory
• Phildo Games
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Game Design Machine, Monologue
• Poly Culture
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Prune
• Potato Interactive
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Thunder Gun: Revenge of the Mutants
• Raven Software
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Call of Duty franchise, Singularity, Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
• Sky Ship Studios
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Gloom
• Studio Tectorum
  • 🎮 Mabeopsa
• Thawed Codebase
  • 📍 Oshkosh
• Three Rings Design
  • 📍 Madison
  • 🎮 Spiral Knights, Puzzle Pirates
• Zymo Entertainment
  • 📍 Green Bay
  • 🎮 Starlight Inception

School Programs and Groups

Key: 🎨 Art/Animation; 💻 Software Development; 🍎 Research

• Madison College: Associate of Arts Degree in Animation and Concept Development 🎨
• Madison Media Institute: Game Art & Animation Program 🎨
• UW-Madison: Games and Learning Society 🍎
• UW-Stout: B.S. Degree in Game Design and Development – Computer Science 💻
• UW-Stout: B.F.A Degree in Game Design and Development - Art 🎨
• UW-Whitewater: Media Arts And Game Development 🎨
• Milwaukee Area Technical College: Computer Simulation and Gaming - Design 💻
• Milwaukee Area Technical College: Computer Simulation and Gaming - Art & Animation 🎨
• Milwaukee Area Technical College: Computer Simulation and Gaming - Programming 💻
• Milwaukee Area Technical College: Computer Simulation and Gaming - Business Development 🍎
• Milwaukee Area Technical College: Unity Developer Technical Diploma 💻