Welcome to the St. Louis game developer community!

The St. Louis Game Developer Community is going to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco from March 1st through the 4th, 2027! The event includes an expo, networking events, awards shows, and a variety of tutorials, lectures, and roundtables by industry professionals on game-related topics covering programming, design, audio, production, business, and visual arts.

If you would like to go to GDC this year with us, apply for a ticket here! We want to give those that have never been before the chance to connect with game developers across the country and beyond! This is your chance to network, share your games, and represent the St. Louis community at various summits, meetups, and parties!

Out-of-the-box, Unity (among other engines) seems to only want to use Xinput-devices for inputs (like gamepads) in the Input Manager, which means that it doesn’t know how to talk to older, generic input devices by default. We learned this the hard way while trying to set up our Demo Arcade Machine.

After some experimentation, Colin (miniscule) figured out a solution which, even if you are not submitting a game for us to use in our demos, we still want to show you how to fix so that anyone, with any kind of controller, can play your game.