The NYU Game Center

The NYU Game Center celebrates games as a creative practice, offering BFA, MFA, and undergraduate courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form. For more information, visit us at gamecenter.nyu.edu

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NYU Game Center Presents Marie Foulston

Thursday, September 19th, 7PM

370 Jay Street, 12th Floor Seminar Room

Marie Foulston is pioneering the curation of videogames for public spaces, from festivals and parties to the world’s grand museums. In 2011 she co-founded the Wild Rumpus party series, which helped inspire a worldwide wave of ‘new arcade’ events, and most recently led the curation of the first major videogame exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London - the world’s oldest and greatest museum of design. Join us as we hear how Marie’s perspective on videogame curation has evolved through her trailblazing work.

Poster art by Joana Neves. Find more of her work here.

Free and open to the public.

The NYU Game Center would like to thank our event sponsors: Fresh Planet, Take-Two Interactive, Dots, and Empire State Development. Their generous support makes our events possible.

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Global Game Jam 2019  January 25-27 (Kick-off at 6PM, Friday)  2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor 

At 6PM this Friday, we're kicking off the 2019 Global Game Jam here at the NYU Game Center! Join us in Brooklyn to spend your weekend making a cool game! The Global Game Jam is forty-eight hour game jam that 280,000 other game makers from 93 countries around the world attempt together! The NYU Game Center jam site has been around for 9 years, and has been the birthplace of many Global Game Jam hits such as "How do you Do It?", Mushroom 11, and Lucca.

Find more info and an FAQ on the jam here: https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/event/global-game-jam-2019/ Register for the NYU Game Center GGJ site here: https://globalgamejam.org/2019/jam-sites/nyu-game-center

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents John Gonzalez Thursday, November 15, 7PM  2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201

As a narrative designer in the triple-A game industry John has made significant contributions to some of the most artistically and commercially successful games of the last 10 years. He was the lead writer of the brilliant Fallout: New Vegas, lead narrative designer of Shadows of Mordor and co-creator of its innovative and influential "nemesis" system, and narrative director on Horizon: Zero Dawn, recipient of multiple storytelling and writing awards. Come hear John discuss his creative process for creating powerful stories through open-world gameplay and AI-driven characters.

Poster art by Hannah Christenson. Find more of her work here.

Free and open to the public.

The NYU Game Center would like to thank our event sponsors: Fresh Planet, Take-Two Interactive, Dots, Activision, and Vicarious Visions. Their generous support makes our events possible.

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Daniel Benmergui

Thursday, November 1, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Daniel is an award-winning game designer and one of the organizers of the Experimental Gameplay Workshop, the one indisputably "can't miss" session of the Game Developers Conference. In this talk, Daniel will dive into the design details of his recent release, the "pet puzzle crawler" Fidel. He will also give us a glimpse of his next game - Storyteller, a promising exploration of new ways to combine narrative and gameplay.

Poster art by Eltons Kuns. Find more of his work here.

Free and open to the public.

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Steve Gaynor & Karla Zimonja

Thursday, September 27, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Steve and Karla are co-founders of The Fullbright Company, a small game studio which has had a huge impact on the history of game design. In 2013, they released Gone Home and definitively proved that immersive first-person narrative and environmental storytelling could exist without combat, puzzles, or any of the other trappings of traditional gameplay. Join us as we talk to Steve and Karla about the joys and struggles of running an independent game studio and making groundbreaking games.

Poster art by Arlin Ortiz. Find more of his work here.

Free and open to the public.

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NYU Game Center Lectures Series Presents

Mink ette

Thursday, April 26, 7PM

2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

Over the past few years escape rooms have emerged as a popular new genre of real-world gaming. Combining collaborative problem-solving with immersive theater, escape rooms remind us of the power of physical presence and face-to-face interaction. Locked in a room with friends and strangers, players work together to solve puzzles and unravel the mystery to find their freedom. Mink ette is a veteran game designer who has created several popular escape rooms and is a master of real-world game design. Join us for a peek behind the curtain and learn how these games are created.

Poster art by Natalie Andrewson. Find more of her work here.

Free and open to the public.

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The NYU Game Center is proud to announce Spring Fighter 2018! Our annual fighting game tournament will be happening this April 14th in Brooklyn. This year our friend Seth Killian be continuing his series of interviews with legendary Street Fighter players and sitting down with Justin Wong.

This year we’ll be hosting tournaments in:

Street Fighter V

Dragon Ball Fighter Z

Tekken 7

All tournaments are bring your own controller and all games will be played on PS4.

You can register for free for all the games here or register just for the conversation.

Each year the NYU Game Center invites a veteran of the fighting game community to share their thoughts about their career in fighting games, the scene, and life in general, with Seth Killian. In the past we’ve hosted such greats as Daigo Umehara, Alex Valle, Ricki Ortiz, and LI Joe. This year we’ve invited another storied player, Justin Wong. The interview will take place right before the Top 8 in Street Fighter V.

We’d like to thank Arturo Sanchez for returning to stream and commentate our FGC games again this year. On April 14th, you can watch the Spring Fighter 2018 here: twitch.tv/teamsp00ky.

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The NYU Game Center Incubator is open for applications from all game developers until April 8th!

The NYU Game Center Incubator is a 3-month intensive program in NYC focused on transforming small-scale game projects into commercial products. We're looking for small but capable teams (or individuals) working on games that have commercial potential and a creative spark. We are especially keen to find folks making games with diverse voices from underrepresented communities. Applications do not need to be NYU students or graduates and they do not need to be based in NYC. To learn more about what we're looking for and see past projects, check out the Incubator website.

The games featured above were all Incubator participants. Clockwise from top left: The Norwood Suite, Membrane, Ape Out, and Badblood.

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Over the past 7 years Zach Barth’s studio Zachtronics has released a series of strange and wonderful games. SpaceChem, InfiniFactory, Shenzhen I/O, and 2017’s Opus Magnum, as a body of work there is perhaps no better expression of the beauty of problem-solving and the complex aesthetics of engineering and automation. Join the NYU Game Center on 3/1 at 7PM at our campus in Brooklyn for a conversation with Zach about his work, his ideas, and his creative process.

Poster art by Eltons Kuns. Find more of his work here.

Free and open to the public.

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Jam with us this weekend at the Global Game Jam 2018!

This Weekend! Friday, Jan. 26 - Sunday, Jan. 28 Kickoff: Friday, January 26 at 6PM Exhibiton & Awards: Sunday, January 28, 5PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

The Global Game Jam is a 48 hour challenge to make a new game based on theme shared throughout the world! Over 90 countries participate with sites in thousands of cities and hundreds of thousands of game makers. Join us for another incredible year of making fast, fun games in Brooklyn!

Check out the video above for a look at our jam site from previous years! 

Find full jam logistics and more information on our site here.

Register for our jam location on the GGJ site here.

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Jane Ng Thursday, November 30th, 7PM  2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY

Jane Ng is a videogame artist with over a decade of industry experience. She has worked on a variety of award-winning titles including Spore, Godfather, Brütal Legend, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. As Environmental Artist at Campo Santo, Jane was responsible for creating the world of Firewatch, widely considered one of the best-looking games of all time. Join us for a conversation with Jane about her creative process and approach to making memorable videogame art.

Free and open to the public.  Come early to enjoy Playtest Thursday from 5-7PM!

Poster art by Arlin Ortiz. Find more of Arlin's work here.

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The 8th Annual No Quarter Exhibition Friday, November 3, 7PM 309 Starr St. Brooklyn, NY

On Friday, November 3rd, join us at the Starr Space Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn for the 8th annual No Quarter Exhibition. Each year we commission four new games from four artists -- our mission is to help nurture game design for public spaces and to support unique and bold voices in the game design community. The 2017 Exhibition will feature games by Auriea Harvey, Droqen, Pietro Righi Riva, and Kitty Horrorshow.

More info on the No Quarter site here!

No Quarter is always free and open to the public.

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents David OReilly David OReilly Talks About Everything Thursday October 26, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

Join us on Thursday, October 26th at 7PM for the next installment of the NYU Game Center Lecture Series featuring David OReilly. David OReilly is an artist, film-maker and game designer whose distinctive style has made him one of the most respected and influential creative voices of the contemporary scene. As an animator, David's work embraces the chaotic and ephemeral rhythms of internet culture. He wrote and directed an episode of the hit cartoon series Adventure Time and has created music videos for bands like U2. After getting a chance to design the fictional game in Spike Jonze's film Her, David went on to create his own original game, the surreal and minimalist experience Mountain. This year, he released his second game, Everything, which is a metaphysical tour de force that suggests entirely new directions for games as an artform. Join us to hear David discuss his work, his ideas, Everything, and more.

Poster artwork by Eltons Kuns. Find more of his work here.

Free and open to the public.

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NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents  Robert Yang: Gay Science Thursday, September 28, 7PM 2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

Please join us for the inaugural event of the 2017 NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Game Center Professor Robert Yang!

Robert Yang is a game designer and teacher who is the most recent addition to the Game Center's full-time faculty. Robert has been doing groundbreaking work as an indie developer who appropriates the tools and techniques of mainstream big budget videogames to make work that is personal, idiosyncratic, and highly experimental. His recent games exploring queer sexuality are powerful and sometimes scandalous interventions in gaming culture and he has developed a creative practice that crosses wires between the world of avant-garde media art and mainstream youtube streamers.

In addition to his creative work Robert has developed a large audience for his work as a game critic and thinker across a wide range of topics including an especially deep exploration into the formal and expressive dimensions of 3D level design.

Join us to hear Robert talk about his work and share his unique approach to games, art, and life.

Free and open to the public. 

Art by James Harvey. Find more of his work here.

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Check out some screenshots from the NYU Game Center End of Year Show 2017! Play the games this Thursday, 5/18, 6-10PM!

Sandcaster Alexander King A god game where you sculpt a safe path through a hostile desert for traveling caravans. sandcastergame.com

No Place Burgess Voshell No Place is a puzzle game where space collapses into nothing, the world shifts to make new connections, and every move is a catastrophe.

Shallow Games Michelle Sentio, Denver Coulson, Ben Sironko Shallow Games is a jukebox of eclectic, fast-paced arcade games that features a diverse set of play styles, an emphasis on vibrant audiovisual design, short minute-long rounds, and simple one stick/one button controls for 2- 4 players! www.shallowgames.com

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NYU Game Center End of Year Show 2017 Thursday, May 18, 6PM  2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

Try a new and unreleased collection of arcade party games. Compete in underground fashion battles. Be the meanest character in the game Jane Austen would’ve designed. Solve VR puzzles in outer space.

Play these and tons more exciting new games at the 2017 NYU Game Center Student Show. Join us on the evening of Thursday, May 18th from 6-10PM to experience innovations in narrative, perplexing 3D puzzles, cutting-edge VR, and more!

Join the NYU Game Center and the New York City games community to celebrate the 2017 NYU Game Center MFA Thesis and BFA Capstone work as well as a wide range of games developed in classes from throughout the graduate and undergraduate programs. Each year, work that debuts at the Student Show goes to on to commercial release, arcade cabinets installations, prestigious awards, international festivals, and major game design conferences. Be the first to play the next groundbreaking and fun games!

An open bar and light bites will be available starting at 6PM.

Free and open to the public.

RSVP here.

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Spring Fighter 2017

Saturday, April 8th, 11AM Tournament, 6PM Talk

2 Metrotech Center, 8th Floor

This Saturday is Spring Fighter! Tournament registration is full, but anyone is welcome to come spectate, play casuals, and check out this year's conversation between Seth Killian and 'Long Island' Joe Ciaramelli.  A popular player and streamer, LI Joe has been a familiar face in the New York fighting game scene for more than a decade.

Each year the NYU Game Center invites a veteran of the fighting game community to share their thoughts about their career in fighting games, the scene, and life in general, with Seth Killian. In the past we’ve hosted such greats as Daigo Umehara, Alex Valle, and Ricki Ortiz, and this year we’ve invited another storied player, LI Joe. The interview will take place right before the Top 8 in Street Fighter V.

RSVP here.