NYU Game Center

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We celebrate games as a creative practice & offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form. https://linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

Applying to the 2026 Game Center Incubator cohort? Want advice on how to prepare your game pitch? Join us this Tuesday evening, June 2nd at 5:30pm Eastern for a pitch workshop hosted over Zoom. RSVP at this google form to be sent the Zoom link for Tuesday night’s event! forms.gle/m7dfiC5C4CHb...

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Applying to the 2026-2027 Game Center Incubator cohort? Want advice on how to prepare your game pitch? Join us this Tuesday evening, June 2nd from 5:30pm - 6:30pm Eastern for a pitch workshop hosted o...

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Our 2026 Spring Showcase is TOMORROW at 6pm! Additional tickets were added and are going fast. Come check out over 50 student games, including projects from graduating students as well as a selection of games from our wide range of courses! RSVP Here: gcspringshow26.eventbrite.com

NYU Game Center Spring Showcase 2026

Join us for the annual NYU Game Center Spring Showcase! Play student games and chat with developers at this enormous display of projects!

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美@halfrobot.com · 3mo ago

HEY NYC!! The day after tomorrow, 6-10 PM, is the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's annual SHOWCASE of new student work! Over four dozen brand new games of sundry variety (see thread!) Come party & let weird little playables warp your mind! RSVP for a free ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyu-game-c...

Poster of the NYU Game Center Showcase 2026 featuring art by Ava Pom! Wed May 13, 6-10 PM 370 Jay St. 2nd Floor

Late-breaking announcement: Reggie Fils-Aimé in conversation with Joost Van Dreunen Thurs. April 30th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Room 202 Join us for a special event from two experts in the business of video games! Ltd. public tix available at 11am EST TODAY! RSVP: reggienyu.eventbrite.com

Reggie Fils-Aimé in conversation with Joost Van Dreunen

Join us for a special event from two experts in the business of video games!

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Want to make an analog game but don’t know where to start? Join us this Sunday for a FREE, all-ages workshop led by expert faculty. Learn principles of game design & build your own game! 📍 David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center ⏰ Sunday, April 19 @ 1pm 🎲 Just show up! More info: bit.ly/4dSmM9O

Create-athon: Game Making · Lincoln Center

What does it mean to be a "gamer"? Is that someone who loves games or loves to make games? Why not both? Whether you're a high-score hero or a first-time player,…

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Tonight’s Playtest Thursday will have FREE PIZZA!! Come test new game ideas, grab a slice and hang out. Thanks to Medal.tv for making it happen. Catch their booth in the playtest room from 5:30–7:30p. NYC-based Medal is the fastest way to clip, save, and share PC gameplay. More info: medal.tv

Record, Edit, and Share Your Game Clips & Gameplay - Medal

Medal is the best way to record, edit, and share gaming clips and videos for free on PC. Download Medal today.

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NYU GAME CENTER SPRING SHOWCASE 2026 Wed. May 13th 6pm - 10pm 370 Jay St. 2nd Floor From Capstone & Thesis grad projects and beyond, play 50+ student games and chat with the developers at our annual end of year celebration! RSVP here: gcspringshow26.eventbrite.com Poster by Ava Pom (avapom.com)

NYU Game Center Spring Showcase 2026

Join us for the annual NYU Game Center Spring Showcase! Play student games and chat with developers at this enormous display of projects!

gcspringshow26.eventbrite.com

Congratulations to ZIPIT! Games for their release of The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish! This game was part of the NYU Game Center's 2024 Incubator Program cohort and we're thrilled to see how far this project has come. Support the developers and check out the game on Steam!

ZIPIT! Games@zipit-games.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

This Thursday at the Game Center! Lili Ibrahim Lecture Series - 7:00pm Join us beforehand for Playtest Thursday, running from 5:30pm to 7:00pm! Please note PTT ends 30 minutes early to accommodate for the Lecture Series event. RSVP info for both events can be found here: linktr.ee/nyugamecenter

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NYU Game Center@nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEXT THURSDAY NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Lili Ibrahim Apr 2nd, 7pm - 8:30pm RSVP: monumentvalleylectureseries.eventbrite.com (Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Join us for a talk and Q&A with the Art Director for Monument Valley 3! Poster by @upongoblinhill.bsky.social

An event poster depicting a building with impossibilities similar to an MC Escher lithograph.

The text on the poster reads:

NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents

The Uncanny Monument Valley

Lili Ibrahim
Art Director for
Monument Valley 3

7:00pm, April 2nd, 2026

Room 202, 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

The NYU Game Center would like to extend huge congrats to members of our community for their wins & nominations at the IGF and GDCA Awards this week at GDC! Including: Baby Steps - Excellence in Audio Titanium Court - Excellence in Design, Seumas McNally Grand Prize Consume Me - Social Impact Award

MFA alumni Jack Schlesinger accepting the Excellence in Audio Award for Baby Steps on stage at the IGF Awards, alongside Bennett Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo, and the award hosts and presenters.AP Thomson accepting the Seumas McNally Grand Prize award for Titanium Court on stage at the IGF Awards, alongside award presenter Jenny Jiao HsiaJenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson accepting the Social Impact Award for Consume Me at the Game Developers Choice Awards, alongside the award host and presenter.

And just like that, it’s the last day of GDC. If you’re sticking around, there are some exciting final sessions from alumni and more great games to play. Congrats to everyone who gave a talk, demoed their game, first-time and returning attendees! We hope you had a wonderful time. Safe travels home!

NYU Game Center Events at GDC Festival of Gaming by informa

Friday, 03/13

SESSIONS
10:50a - 11:20p
Curating the World of "Baby Steps" (Gabe Cuzzillo) West Hall, RM 2005

11:00a - 2:00p
ALT.CTRL Showcase & Indiecade Horizons Meetup in the Park (Yerba Buena Gardens GDC Park)

12:00p - 12:30p
GDC Side Quest Podcast Live (Gabe Cuzzillo) GDC Commons Stage

12:30p - 2:30p & 2:50p - 4:00p
Experimental Games Showcase and Demos (Carol Mertz, Liz Ryerson, Hatim Benhsain, Hanwen Xu, Tommy Maranges) Showcase: West Hall, RM 2006, Demo: West Hall, Rm 3002

6:00p - 10:00p
Boshi's Place x SYZYGY: Fried Egg the Thirteenth: A Night of Cursed Games

PLAY

ALL DAY
Games and demos at the Festival Hall Expo

10:00a - 5:00p
Bumblebear giant 16 foot "ZOMBEEZ" Arcade Cabinet (Josh Debonis)

⚠️ PSA for our community in New York ⚠️ Reminder that there is NO Playtest Thursday this evening due to most of our staff being at GDC! Next week there is also no Playtest Thursday due to Spring Break. Our next Playtest Thursday will be on March 26th - see you then!

GDC Day 4! A new round of exciting workshops, talks, student & incubator demos are happening all over Moscone Center today! Check out the poster for highlights from the Game Center family, but don’t forget to look through the official GDC app for the larger list of talks.

NYU Game Center Events at GDC Festival of Gaming by informa

Thursday 03/12
SESSIONS

10:30a - 11:30a
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Microtalks Strategy Guide (Charlie Harper and Jess Erion) West Hall, RM 3018

11:50a - 12:50p
Teaching Games with Games X: Artificial Intelligence (Frank Lantz, Stephanie Boluk, and Patrick Lemieux) West Hall, RM 2014

12:00p - 8:00p
PlaySFMOMA: The Mix Indie Games Gallery (SF MOMA)

2:00p - 5:30p
Wicked Problems Balancing Complex Systems (Eric Zimmerman) West Hall, RM 3016

4:15p - 5:15p
BumbleBear Arcade Lab (Josh DeBonis) West Hall, RM 3009

6:30p - 8:00p
Game Developers Choice Awards - North Hall, Main Stage

PLAY
FESTIVAL HALL
South Hall Booth 1349

12:20p - 12:50p
Swan Mound

1:00p - 1:30p
Abyssal Fishing Chronical

WERQWISE
149 New Montgomery St, 4th Floor

9:00a - 1:00p
My Ransomware Can't Be This Cute

Audionaut

1:00p - 5:00p
Whalefall

Abigail

GDC Day 3! In addition to all of the great conference sessions, today the show floor opens in the Festival Hall! Support student and Incubator games being demoed in the South Hall, booth 1349 until 3:00pm. Several groups will also be displaying their games all day at WERQWISE so stop by!

NYU Game Center Events at GDC Festival of Gaming by informa

Wednesday 03/11

SESSIONS
10:30a - 12:30p
Tabletop Summit: Play With the Designers (Geoff Engelstein) West Hall, RM 3016

11:50a - 12:20p
GenAI At Studios: Leadership, Tools, and Trust (Mitue Khandaker) West Hall, RM 2006

1:50p - 2:10p
Building Games, Building Teams: A 5-Year Student Studio Playbook (Presented by Silverjay Studio), Indie & Education Stage, South Hall

3:00p - 4:00p
GDC Side Quest Podcast Live: State of the Game Industry Panel

6:30p - 8:00p
IGF Awards - North Hall GDC Main Stage (Shawn Pierre)

PLAY
FESTIVAL HALL
South Hall, Booth 1349

10:50a - 11:20a
Dreamscape

11:30a - 12:00p
Mentaloop

1:50p - 2:20p
Poplife

2:30p - 3:00p
Amalgam

WERQWISE
9:00a - 1:00p
And Then We Go Party At The Shore

Logophile

1:00p - 5:00p
coalescent | tidal rapture

Chupi

At GDC? Want free snacks, coffee, a place to rest and take meetings? Come check out the New York Business Lounge at WERQWISE SF, and play some indie games from NY! Just one block northeast of Moscone. Open all week and open to all, no GDC pass required! See you there!

A photo of an open co-working space. There are low, brown, leather couches, yellow and blue pillars which read "New York State LVL", half-dome shaped seating areas, and a hexagonal sign reading "You conquered New York State Level" in the rear of the room next to an arcade cabinet.

THIS THURSDAY! On evenings with Lecture Series events, *PLAYTEST THURSDAY ENDS EARLY AT 7:00PM!* We will still have Playtest Thursday this week, but it will conclude 30 minutes early to accommodate for the lecture. To join the PTT guest list, fill out this form here: forms.gle/fPSCj9UE47YJ...

NYU Game Center@nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEXT THURSDAY "Why did I make this?" NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy March 5th 7pm - 8:30pm RSVP: bennettfoddylectureseries.eventbrite.com (Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Join us for a career retrospective with @foddy.net! Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social

Poster art for Bennett Foddy's Lecture Series event with the NYU Game Center. Features characters from QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps. Text reads:
NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents
Bennett Foddy
Creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps
Why did I make this?

7:00pm, March 5th, 2026
Room 202, 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY

This event has reached capacity! We have opened up a Waitlist on Eventbrite which you may join. If tickets are freed up, they will be manually released to the Waitlist. If you can no longer attend and have an RSVP, please return it via Eventbrite! The Twitch stream does not require an RSVP!

NYU Game Center@nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEXT THURSDAY "Why did I make this?" NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy March 5th 7pm - 8:30pm RSVP: bennettfoddylectureseries.eventbrite.com (Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Join us for a career retrospective with @foddy.net! Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social

Poster art for Bennett Foddy's Lecture Series event with the NYU Game Center. Features characters from QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps. Text reads:
NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents
Bennett Foddy
Creator of QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps
Why did I make this?

7:00pm, March 5th, 2026
Room 202, 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY