Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Zeke Virant Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones & the Great Circle Thurs. Oct. 2nd 7pm - 8:30pm IRL & at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for our first Lecture Series of Fall 2025 feat. alum Zeke Virant! RSVP: zekevirantlectureseries.eventbrite.com

Announcing: How to Play the Sondheim Way w/ Barry Joseph Thurs. Sept. 25th, 7pm-8:30pm Join us for a lecture/workshop! Discover how the playful approach to parlor games of the famed lyricist/composer Stephen Sondheim can inspire our own creative practices. RSVP: barryjosephworkshop.eventbrite.com

Playtest Thursday RETURNS next Thursday, Sept. 11th at the NYU Game Center! Our weekly in-house playtesting event where you can get feedback on work-in-progress games is back for the Fall 2025 semester! External guests of NYU who wish to join, please fill out this form: forms.gle/3EdgXVDe95P7...

We are LIVE NOW with a special edition of Game Center Live! twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

We are live NOW with the 2025 NYU Game Center Incubator Showcase! On Steam: store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY And on Twitch: twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

We will be LIVE in just one hour with our showcase kicking off the Games in New York Steam Sale event! Featuring faculty (@halfrobot.com, Shawn Pierre), and indie scene friends @holywowstudios.bsky.social, @halfmermaid.co, @bysameng.com, and more! store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY

Announcing: Games in NY Steam Sale event! A selection of more than 100 games made, set, or published in New York, on sale for one weekend! Join us Thurs 5/29 at 1pm EDT with a showcase on Twitch (twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) coinciding with the Sale page launch! More info at linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

NYU GAME CENTER SPRING SHOWCASE 2025 NEXT WEDNESDAY, MAY 14TH, 6PM - 10PM Play at least 50 demos of student work made over this past year from a wide range of Game Center courses. Meet and chat with the devs at this huge end of year celebration! RSVP Here: gamecenterspringshowcase25.eventbrite.com

I remember playing this lil fungus when it was just a funny little spore that would reassemble its lil cel-shaded limbs at the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social and now it's grown up into an enormous co-op FPS shroom colony that ALL OF YOU CAN TRY

TOMORROW! 🔥NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Karina Popp🔥 Karina has a problem. Her problem is with game design and with the way we talk about games and what games have become in this century. Her only solution is to burn it all down. RSVP here: karinapopplectureseries.eventbrite.com

Join us online this Wednesday, April 30th at 4:00pm for the NYU Game Center Incubator Q&A! We will share more about the Incubator program, what do we offer and what is looks like to participate, the application dates and selection process. RSVP here to get the zoom link: bit.ly/3RGcixY

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Karina Popp Thursday, May 1st, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, 370 Jay Street and live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for a talk and Q&A with Visiting Assistant Arts Prof at the Game Center, Karina Popp! RSVP Here: karinapopplectureseries.eventbrite.com

This is TONIGHT! It's not too late to RSVP to this Lecture Series talk with Christine Love and attend in person! RSVP here: christinelovelectureseries.eventbrite.com Can't make it IRL? Watch LIVE at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter See you there!

THIS THURSDAY! Game Center Lecture Series Presents Christine Love 7:00pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street & live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for a talk and Q&A with @christinelove.bsky.social about building a game engine! RSVP: christinelovelectureseries.eventbrite.com Poster by www.xanthebouma.com

This talk with Christine Love is NEXT THURSDAY! RSVP here: christinelovelectureseries.eventbrite.com

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Christine Love Thurs. April 3rd, 7pm - 8:30pm, 370 Jay Street and live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for a talk and Q&A with @christinelove.bsky.social about building a game engine! RSVP here: christinelovelectureseries.eventbrite.com

HUGE congrats to these NYU Game Center alumni for their wins at the 2025 IGF Awards last night! EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO Julián Cordero (BFA '19) for @despelote.game WINGS AWARD NUOVO AWARD SEUMAS MCNALLY GRAND PRIZE @qdork.bsky.social (BFA '16) and @apthomson.bsky.social (MFA '15) for playconsume.me

We are LIVE now with Nathan Grayson and Jordan Minor! www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

This is tonight! 7:00pm at the NYU Game Center Nathan Grayson in conversation with Jordan Minor about STREAM BIG RSVP to join in person: streambig.eventbrite.com Or watch LIVE on Twitch at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

come see @jordanwminor.bsky.social and me talk about video game books! this thursday!

In ONE WEEK - Stream Big - A Book Talk with @nathangrayson.bsky.social in conversation with @jordanwminor.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stream... Thurs. March 13th, 7pm - 8:30pm, 370 Jay Street RSVP to join in person: streambig.eventbrite.com Or watch live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

Incredibly flattered that @nathangrayson.bsky.social invited me to have this conversation on his awesome new book STREAM BIG and gaming books in general. Join us at NYU Game Center on Thursday 3/13 at 7pm EST! RSVP: streambig.eventbrite.com

Bonus announcement! In discussion with Nathan Grayson at this event will be @jordanwminor.bsky.social, author of "Video Game Of The Year" Nathan and Jordan will be discussing Nathan's new book "Stream Big" in addition to books on games & gaming culture. RSVP Here: streambig.eventbrite.com

Announcing: Stream Big - A Book Talk with Nathan Grayson Thurs. March 13th, 7pm - 8:30pm, 370 Jay Street AND live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter Join us for a talk and Q&A with @nathangrayson.bsky.social about his book Stream Big, the definitive story of Twitch. RSVP Here: streambig.eventbrite.com

This week! Too Much Fun - a Book Talk with Jesper Juul Thurs. Feb. 20th, 7pm - 9pm, 370 Jay Street Join us for a talk, Q&A, and some gameplay with @jesperjuul.bsky.social about his new book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" More info & RSVP here: toomuchfun.eventbrite.com

Our Lecture Series talk with Jason Latino is TOMORROW! Tickets for this event have SOLD OUT! Due to capacity, we cannot add more seats. If you RSVP'd for this event but can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket so you can open up a spot! The event will also be live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

NEXT THURSDAY! A Lecture Series talk with Jason Latino - the Cinematic Director on Baldur's Gate 3 Thurs, Feb. 6th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Lecture Hall 202 (and live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) RSVP & more info here: jasonlatinolectureseries.eventbrite.com Poster by @sarakipin.bsky.social

The NYU Game Center is BACK for the Spring 2025 semester! Check out the thread below for info on all the events coming up in the next few weeks:

TONIGHT! We are also excited to announce that a feature of tonight's talk will be 💬🍩TWITCH PLAYS NOUR🍩💬 Whether you visit IRL or tune in online, you can spawn a noodle (among other foods) at will from your phone/computer RSVP: tjhugheslectureseries.eventbrite.com Watch: twitch.tv/nyugamecenter

This Thursday - join us for a talk and Q&A with Tj Hughes! Tj is here to retrospect on the up and down journey of bringing an experimental passion project to a market that doesn't always reward breaking conventions. It's highkey difficult man. RSVP: tjhugheslectureseries.eventbrite.com

🍩NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Tj Hughes🍩 Thursday, Dec. 5th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Lecture Hall 202 (and live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Tj Hughes, creator of Nour, will be visiting for a guest lecture and Q&A as our last Lecture Series for Fall 2024! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Due to unforeseen travel issues outside of our control, we unfortunately have to cancel the below event "Repairing Play: A Playlist" with Aaron Trammell. If you already RSVP'd for the event via Eventbrite, you will have received an email from the Game Center Staff.

For even more info about No Quarter 2024, check out this thread from @tigershungry.bsky.social - the curator for No Quarter since 2022 - detailing the games you will see at next week's event!

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE NYU GAME CENTER! We have lots going on in the coming weeks here at the NYU Game Center, which we'll detail in a thread below. In the meantime, head on over to linktr.ee/nyugamecenter to sign up for our newsletter, RSVP for events, and follow us on various sites.

THIS THURSDAY! Come on our to our last Lecture Series event of the Fall 2023 semester with Connor Carson - lead programmer for IMMORTALITY. RSVP here: lu.ma/2l79mxp5 Can't make it in person? We'll be live streaming this talk at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter starting 7pm EST

Announcing: NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Connor Carson Join us for a guest lecture and Q&A with Connor Carson (MFA '20), lead programmer for the multi-award winning IMMORTALITY! More info coming soon, RSVP here: lu.ma/2l79mxp5 Poster by @jmfenner.bsky.social

My @nyugamecenter.bsky.social class played Simon Hansen & Nina Essendrop’s abstract, symbolic larp WHITE DEATH, which may or may not be about mountain climbers letting themselves die in a blizzard. Students came away with very different but very emotional experiences of the narrative!