SAGE Groups

SAGE groups (stands for “Support, Accountability, Growth, and Encouragement,” previously known as “Small groups”) are tailored towards helping you build meaningful relationships with other Christians who develop games and sustainably make progress and grow in your game development journey. These groups bring around five people together through a video conference to encourage, support, and hold each other accountable to their game development goals, while growing together as game developers through reading or watching a curriculum throughout the season related to game development.

Why join a SAGE Group?

Support

Providing and receiving feedback, insight, direct support, and prayer for each member as they share their game development progress

Accountability

Expecting every member to attend each meeting they can, show off their progress towards their goals, and discuss the homework

Growth

Reading books and watching videos that provide knowledge, insight, motivation, and practical help that will help you grow as a game developer

Encouragement

Celebrating the progress each member makes throughout the year and how God is working with them on their game development journey

Who can join?

They are open to all game-related disciplines, such as developers, artists, musicians, and writers, as well as circumstances, whether you’re just getting started, actively working on your own indie project, freelancing, or employed at a game development company.

When do they start?

SAGE group seasons begins enrollment twice a year correlating with the CGDC (summer) and CGDC: Virtual (winter) conferences. Look for information about enrollment on the “News” section of this website and the CGDC Facebook and Discord communities around the times of these conferences.

Testimonials

“From being in the SAGE group, it pushed me to take a fledgling idea to a tangible and playable state in less than a year. It made me want to have something to show even if it was a small change. Then going from having no believers in my life in this industry to having a group that I can bounce ideas off of and pray with makes a huge difference going forward.”

"Each month SAGE groups served as a milestone to hit, to bring my best and to be consistent with my progress. It gave me a reason to fire up VS Code rather than Steam, and that consistency helped me to finally complete a game."

"If you want to have something to show to like-minded people and who can give you good feedback and bounce ideas off of, I would join a CGDC SAGE group. If you're an indie dev working solo you feel lonely, I would join a CGDC SAGE group. If you just want to grow in Christ and help others grow in Christ, and use your gifts that the Spirit has given you, join a CGDC SAGE group."

"Join a SAGE group, it will make you a better and happier person!"

"Having a SAGE group is a wonderful thing. I can ping ideas off of them, I can reach out and get feedback, so it helps my development process considerably... and spiritually it's wonderful knowing that these guys are praying for you. Making games at home can be really tough, can be lonely, can be very defeating, so that there's these guys that you can see every month or reach out to on a daily basis in chat, it's just a wonderful thing."