G.E.A.R.S is a new club on campus that designs video games. The club was founded by juniors Akash Kwatra and Trey Shaffer earlier this year. The club meets on Fridays in Juan Flores’ room (C408) during Ranger time and after school.

“G.E.A.R.S. was created to find other people who shared our desire to make video games,” Kwatra said.

The club’s name, G.E.A.R.S., is an acronym for Game Engineering Art Research Software, which are some of the essential steps required in creating video games.

“People joining should have some experience with programming and designing, but we have other spots available like making the story and artwork,” Kwatra said.

The club will participate in the steps of making a video game such as creating the design, creating the artwork, the graphics, the story, programming, debugging, fix problems and test the game out.

“Right now G.E.A.R.S. hosts about 30 members, but we’re hoping to get more and expand to other schools,” Kwatra said.

G.E.A.R.S. will start out designing small web games that will be posted on their website as soon as they get it up and running.

“The ultimate purpose of this club is to get experience by trial and error by creating new games and more importantly to have fun,” Kwatra said.

Depending on the size of the video game, hours of hard work and dedication can go into making it.

“G.E.A.R.S represents constantly moving forward and getting better by trying new things,” Kwatra said.