We support every major game engine: Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot. So if you use one of those engines - you're in luck! When you join, you'll be paired with a Dev Pod that uses your engine. We're open to more in the future, but that's where we're at right now.

We need all sorts of skills to make games! 2D & 3D artists, sound designers, musicians, writers - everybody! If you're not a programmer, don't sweat - there's still a spot for you.

In fact - most of our members are programmers, so if you have a skill outside of that, its probably needed!

Yes! The only requirement is that you first become familiar with our pitching and lead framework. Usually, the best way to do this is to contribute to a game under a different project lead, but it's not required.

Our video onboarding covers everything you'll need to lead a team developing your original game!

Everyone that contributes owns their specific contribution. So if a programmer writes some code, they own that code. But they license it to the project so that it can be used in the published game with no issue. So no one owns the games, but the individual parts that make up a game are each owned by their original creator. The team does have the right to upload the game and distribute it anywhere they'd like though.

We make free games in Dev Pods. You still own your work, and you can reuse or sell any part you make. You just cant sell work done by teammates. To sell an expanded version you'd need to replace contributions or later work out team permissions. But it's not out of the question.

Yes. Finishing is one of the core principles of Dev Pods. All games pitched have to meet certain scope requirements, and we have veteran community members and people there to help shape it and scope it to make sure it crosses the finish line. Most game projects will ship within 2-6 months, and it's pretty rare that any game takes less than 3 months. There are occasional problems that come up, but we do our best to make sure all games get finished.

Yes! This is a decentralized community for team game projects, which means that you can devote as much or as little time as you want. We'd recommend a few hours a month at least to get the most out of it. But beyond that, how much time you spend is up to you.

There is no set schedule, you pick the tasks you want to work on, and you pick when you want to work on them. You get to contribute to game teams on your own schedule!

Yes! This is not a fast paced game industry type of environment. Instead its a slow chill game dev group where we all make games together.

If you're a beginner that's ok. You'll have to learn a few tools like GitHub, but you can take on easier tasks within smaller games. And its totally ok to take on a task and not quite be able to get it done. We'll have plenty of other members ready to help.

A lot of the money paid in by Dev Pods members goes directly back into the community, so things like support and structure, finding new teammates, finding new project leads, keeping our community safe and friendly, optimizing project framework to help more people finish more, and just generally keeping projects on track toward their release date so that they actually launch. We also sometimes pay specialists and experts to come in and contribute towards certain projects that might just need a hint of polish or magic. But there are plenty of other costs as well like onboarding materials,  training, events, platform hosting, domain, Discord bots etc.

You'll be billed on the day of the month that you started your membership on. So if you start on May 18th for example, you will be billed again on June 18th. No hidden charges, no weird pricing switch ups.

There are a few key differences here:

1. Making games solo, you have to do ALL of the work. Here, you do what you want.
2. Making games with a team requires finding the team, vetting the team, learning to work with the team, negotiating deals and all sorts of stuff. Here, we find the teammates for you. You just hop in.
3. Making games on your own with an unproven process means risking that the game you're working on will never ship. Here, we ship 100% of the games, 100% of the time.
4. Sometimes with games on you're own, you get lost. you're not sure what to work on next, etc. Here, there's a battle-tested framework and process that shows project leads exactly what's next, and those project leads tell you the tasks that are most important.
5. When you have a problem on your own project, you have to figure that out by yourself. Here we have support and knowledgeable teammates who have a vested interest in helping you solve the problem, because it affects the game they're working on too.
6. Game dev is just more fun with a friendly, supportive community.

Directly? No. Indirectly, yes! So we won't actively help you through the process of getting a job, but we've had members go on to work for companies like Sony, Ubisoft, and Blizzard to name a few. And quite often, Dev Pods helped them by simply giving them the framework and community to build their portfolio with team game projects over time.

So to employers, one of the most important things when hiring is "Can this person actually do the job?" And a good portfolio full of team games that you've worked on is one of the best ways to impress prospective hiring managers. And you can use a portfolio that you've built entirely with Dev Pods games as proof of all of that.

Not to mention that the networking, friendships, and teammates you'll find here are incredibly valuable and can often lead to lots of life opportunities, financial or otherwise.