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SUMMARY:"Secrets of Steam" - Level Up Tuesday Talk\, Showcase\, & Networking
DESCRIPTION:MAKE SURE TO RSVP to get in for FREE. Otherwise\, there is a $20 cover change.  \nLevel Up Tuesdays is your space to learn\, connect\, and play with fellow game developers in NYC.  \nEvery month\, there is talk from an industry professional\, following which there will be spotlights/demos of local games\, alongside a cool place to network with other game devs. \nThis month’s talk will be given by Erik Kovac! \nAfter a decade in games\, Erik helps indie devs and brands connect with audiences. From designing databases and tools for marketing\, to consulting and releasing 10+ games across every platform\, Erik is passionate about helping devs build towards a sustainable future.  \nFor his talk\, “Secrets of Steam\,” Erik will give us a deep dive into how Steam functions and how your game can financially succeed.\nFeaturing: \nA Little Perspective by Tad Cordle – A minimalistic\, abstract puzzle game that blends perception and reality. \nOloo by Ruslan Krasikov – A 2D physics based platformer that references Gish\, Limbo\, and Rain World. \n⸻ \nLevel Up Tuesday is where NYC devs: \n• Test their games\n• Get real feedback\n• Meet collaborators\n• Build momentum \nShow up. Bring a friend. Bring a build. Let’s level up.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/secrets-of-steam-level-up-tuesday-talk-showcase-networking/
LOCATION:CoExist\, 325 W 38th St\, New York\, NY\, 11435\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Showcase,Talk
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SUMMARY:Level Up Tuesday: Industry Talk + Networking + Game Showcase
DESCRIPTION:MAKE SURE TO RSVP to get in for FREE. Otherwise\, there is a $20 cover change.  \nLevel Up Tuesdays is your space to learn\, connect\, and play with fellow game developers in NYC.  \nEvery month\, there is talk from an industry professional\, following which there will be spotlights/demos of local games\, alongside a cool place to network with other game devs. \nThis Month’s Speaker: M. Paul Weeks (He/Him) \nSpecializing in making competitive games for the browser\, M. Paul Weeks has been the game director and lead designer on both Tough Love Arena and Scramble Heart City. \nHis talk\, “How to Balance a Fighting Game” will give a brief overview of how fighting games work\, followed by a discussion and series of case studies on how fighting games have been balanced over the years. While the examples will be specific\, the lessons apply to balancing any kind of competitive game. \nFeaturing: \nScramble Heart City by M. Paul Games – A 3v3 tag fighting game that’s playable in the browser. \nFloaty Fighters by Shattered Games – It’s fight or flight! Battle it out in the sky as four unique combatants in this free movement fighting game. It’s anyone’s game\, think on the fly! Play with up to four players locally! \n⸻ \nLevel Up Tuesday is where NYC devs: \n• Test their games\n• Get real feedback\n• Meet collaborators\n• Build momentum \nShow up. Bring a friend. Bring a build. Let’s level up.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/level-up-tuesday-industry-talk-networking-game-showcase/
LOCATION:CoExist\, 325 W 38th St\, New York\, NY\, 11435\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Showcase,Talk
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SUMMARY:GODOT NYC User Group Monthly Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Do you love the GODOT engine and want to meet local devs making games with it?\nCome hang out\, playtest games\, or show off what you’ve been working on! \n  \nSign up on the GODOT NYC Discord:\nhttps://discord.com/events/1369310104742002688/1437868342739210261 \n  \nLocation:\nSchool of Visual Arts (209 E 23rd St\, New York\, NY 10010)\, Room 303
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/godot-nyc-user-group-monthly-meetup/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Playtest,Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T183000
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SUMMARY:Unreal NYC | December Event
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/unrealengine/events/312058067/ \n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by the School of Visual Arts\nFood & Swag Sponsored by Epic Games \nJoin us for our next Unreal NYC Meetup\, where we dive into all the latest features of Unreal Engine and network with other professionals in games\, animation\, film\, broadcast\, live events\, and more. \n​Each meetup features technical sessions\, live demos\, and discussions with community experts. \nWorking on something cool in Unreal? Mention it and bring it along! We’ll encourage everyone to try each other’s demos and provide feedback. \nSPEAKERS\nAndrew Delgado\, ICRAVE\n“Evolution of Arch Viz Pipeline: A Battle to Real-time”\nTrials and tribulations of trying to achieve the ultimate goal for architectural visualization: Matching offline render quality in a real time environment. Spoiler\, its not easy and I did not ultimately succeeded but I will go over what I learned and what to try and not try. \nAndrew is a Digital Artist serving as the Technical Director of Visualization at Journey. Driven by a deep love for architecture and technology. Always experimenting with new workflows and techniques to build the most compelling digital worlds. Thrive on turning ideas into visual storytelling experiences that inspire.\nWebsite | LinkedIn \nYu-Jun Yeh\, Agile Lens\n“Ghosts of Performances Past: Capturing the Live VR Theatre with Unreal Replays”\nJun will share her experience using Unreal’s replay system to record and play back Agile Lens’ iconic annual VR performance\, A Christmas Carol VR. Each year\, Agile Lens takes on a new technical challenge\, and this year’s goal is to capture the entire show—without a traditional production pipeline. Jun will chat about the surprises she ran into while making the replay plugin and pass along some helpful notes for anyone thinking of doing something similar. \nJun is an XR Creative Technologist with a background in architecture\, primarily focused on developing XR experiences in Unreal Engine. Her work spans web-streaming interactive experiences\, AR\, MR\, VR\, LBE\, and both single-device and cross-platform environments. She has contributed to a wide range of projects—from large-scale shared LBE in VR (Four Seasons Lake Austin)\, web-based interactive theater (The Orchard)\, full-body motion-capture performance in VR (A Christmas Carol VR)\, mixed-reality theater (Your Mind\, Girls…)\, and location-based VR installation (Royal Caribbean’s Perfect Day Mexico VR).\nLinkedIn \nAjinkya Hukerikar\, Zero Density\n“Broadcast to Cinema: Building Scalable Virtual Production Systems”\nCamera tracking protocols\, network architecture\, timecode sync\, GPU thermal management\, real-time compositing pipelines\, and color management workflows. Learn the technical stack that keeps broadcast VP running 24/7 and how to scale these principles from $15K indie setups to enterprise deployments. Real architecture\, real failures\, real fixes. \nAjinkya Hukerikar is a Filmmaker and XR Technologist based in New York. He deploys virtual production systems for major broadcast networks and Fortune 500 clients through his work at Zero Density. His films have screened internationally\, and his most recent short “Dulo” is currently on the festival circuit. An NYU alumnus\, he’s authoring a book on democratizing immersive technologies.\nWebsite | LinkedIn | Instagram
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/unreal-nyc-december-event/
LOCATION:School of Visual Arts (Unreal Meetup)\, 132 W 21st Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Playtest,Showcase,Talk
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SUMMARY:NYC INDIE DEV NIGHT / COZY EDITION / OS-NYC / December 4th
DESCRIPTION:RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-indie-dev-night-cozy-edition-os-nyc-december-4th-tickets-1902309792799 \n\nOverview\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on December 4th for NYC Indie Dev Night at OS-NYC\, where local developers showcase their latest games and projects!\n\n\n\nJoin Playcrafting for a festive night of gaming and community at OS-NYC! \nThis month’s Indie Dev Night is all about cozy games — think narrative adventures\, dating sims\, cooking\, farming\, puzzles\, and irresistibly cute art. Give us the warm fuzzies! \nAnd don’t worry — the theme is flexible. Whether your game is chill or chaotic\, all are welcome\, because cozy is inclusive. \nWe’ll also have a cozy-themed cocktail menu and an ugly sweater contest with prizes! \nCome playtest\, share your work\, meet new friends\, and celebrate the season with NYC’s indie game community. \n***PLEASE NOTE: This will be at a new location – OS NYC (50 Bowery)\, not at BrookLAN.*** \nEXHIBITOR INFORMATION:\n\nAll exhibitors must purchase an exhibitor’s ticket here on Eventbrite ($25)\nIndie Dev Night starts at 6 pm\, we like to have everyone set up\, and ready by 6:30.\nGaming stations are first-come\, first-served! Our OS event space has 6 large monitors\, each paired with a 2-seater couch. In addition\, about 10-12 computer stations are available with gaming chairs on the perimeter.\nYou can bring anyone you’d like to work your table with you\, at no additional cost. Bring as many people as you would like.\nYou may bring signage and decorations for your table to advertise your game/studio – we encourage it.\nPlease bring your own controllers if possible; house controllers are for other OS guests and will be in short supply.\nYes\, you can eat and drink at your table.\nOS is not responsible for anything lost or stolen; OS is a secure spot but we want everyone to be mindful as it gets busy. You can ask someone from Playcrafting to watch your table if you need to step away.\nOS and Playcrafting have a no-harassment policy. Zero tolerance. Anyone harassing anyone for any reason will be removed. We work together as a community to keep developer and community spaces safe for everyone.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/nyc-indie-dev-night-cozy-edition-os-nyc-december-4th/
LOCATION:OS NYC\, 50 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Playtest,Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T220000
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SUMMARY:No Quarter 2025
DESCRIPTION:No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from leading artists working across games are debuted. No Quarter returns to Brooklyn\, New York this Fall on Saturday 22 November. The event is free to attend\, but spaces are limited. \n  \nRSVP HERE\nNo Quarter 2025 Cohort\n \nJulián Cordero\n\nJulián Cordero is a game developer from Quito\, Ecuador\, based in NYC. His latest project\, despelote\, is a slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito in 2001. He’s passionate about finding new ways to capture the world\, and sees video games as the perfect vessel for that exploration.\nDespelote.game \n  \n \nPatrick LeMieux and Stephanie Boluk\n\nStephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux are associate professors at the University of California\, Davis where they make\, play\, and think about games together. Their research and teaching examine the community practices and material histories of play through the lenses of game design\, media theory\, and political economy. Some of their projects include Metagaming\, a book about the games people play in\, on\, around\, and through videogames and the Octopad\, an eight-person NES controller.\npatrick-lemieux.com\nstephanieboluk.com \n  \n \nJana Romanova \nJana Romanova is a multidisciplinary artist working with games\, performance\, and photography. Through live-action role-plays and social games\, she invites people to step into unfamiliar roles\, discover meaningful connections in liminal spaces\, rethink the systems that shape us\, and explore agency\, care\, and ecological imagination.\njanaromanova.com \n  \n \nNicole He and Rémi Forcadell \nNicole He is a game designer based in Brooklyn\, NY. She directed The Crush House in 2024. Rémi Forcadell is a game developer based in Paris\, France. He created Giraffes Volleyball Championship 2016 in 2016 and co-created Pikuniku later. They both enjoy looking at ducks in ponds. \nnicole.pizza\nremiforcadell.com \n  \nThe venue is wheelchair accessible\, seating will be available\, transcriptions will be provided for audio only works. The environment includes low level lighting\, music\, projections and bright screens. There are quiet spaces with seating on the same floor as the exhibition that are easy to access. \nNYU Tisch School of the Arts provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be made at least two weeks before the date of the event when possible. You can request accommodations here: https://form.tisch.nyu.edu/a/accessibility-request-form
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/no-quarter-2025/
LOCATION:NYU Game Center\, 370 Jay Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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SUMMARY:GameMaker x Wonderville Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Game Maker\, Wonderville\, and Shattered Journal Games have teamed up to host a meetup in NYC. Be there on November 22nd from 2:30pm to 6pm. \nGameMaker developers will be showcasing their games during this event! If you are a GameMaker developer in the area who would also like to showcase please reach out to contact@shatteredjournalgames.com \nJoin us for food\, music\, happy hour refreshments\, and play some games made in GameMaker!
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/gamemaker-x-wonderville-meetup/
LOCATION:Wonderville\, 1186 Broadway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T180000
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CREATED:20251017T171158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T171158Z
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SUMMARY:Video Games: The Great Connector
DESCRIPTION:The Harlem Gallery of Science is excited to announce that Video Games: The Great Connector is returning for 2 days only — Monday\, November 3rd and Wednesday November 5th — at the City College of New York.Doors are open to local middle and high school groups for free\, interactive field trips that explore the educational power of video games and digital storytelling.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/video-games-the-great-connector/
LOCATION:City College of New York\, 160 Convent Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10031\, United States
CATEGORIES:Showcase
ORGANIZER;CN="Harlem Gallery of Science":MAILTO:HarlemGalleryofScience@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000
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SUMMARY:Brooklyn Experimental Electronic Music Group
DESCRIPTION:Join the local electronic music community for our showcase featuring an eclectic mix of New York City artists working in a variety of styles. \nOrganized by Metamyther
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/brooklyn-experimental-electronic-music-group-2/
LOCATION:Wonderville\, 1186 Broadway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T170000
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CREATED:20251003T205925Z
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SUMMARY:Game-A-Palooza
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: 10/14/25 – For A Limited Time Only – buy a ticket for Game-A-Palooza and get one to bring a friend along for free! \nNYC’s biggest indie game showcase is here—and it’s your chance to play games before anyone else in the world. On Saturday\, October 18\, 2025\, IGDA NYC takes over Hana House for Game-A-Palooza\, a one-day festival built to celebrate and spotlight local game developers. Proudly sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment\, this event puts the city’s creative talent front and center. \n🕹️ Play 50+ New and Unreleased Games\nFrom 12–5 p.m.\, get hands-on with over 50 brand-new and unreleased games from NYC’s most inventive developers. This is your chance to discover the next big thing before it hits Steam\, consoles\, or anywhere else. \nDon’t just play games. Play them first.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/game-a-palooza/
LOCATION:Hana House\, 345 Adams St\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250824T110000
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SUMMARY:Animation Nights New York (ANNY) Virtual Events
DESCRIPTION:Watch a curated program of animated short films from all around the world. \n​Animation Nights New York is a monthly screening event and annual festival based in NYC. We show the very best animated short films\, virtual reality animation experiences\, and interactive games from all around the world. https://www.animationnights.com \n​This event is a curated monthly screening of our in-competition films. Admission is PAY WHAT YOU DECIDE — donations are greatly appreciated. Support Independent Animation!
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/animation-nights-new-york-anny-virtual-events/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Showcase
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250819T220000
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SUMMARY:Animation Nights New York (ANNY) at The Gutter Spare Room!
DESCRIPTION:Watch a curated program of animated short films from all around the world. \n​Animation Nights New York is a monthly screening event and annual festival based in NYC. We show the very best animated short films\, virtual reality animation experiences\, and interactive games from all around the world. https://www.animationnights.com \n​This event is a curated monthly screening of our in-competition films. Admission is PAY WHAT YOU DECIDE — donations are greatly appreciated\, while no one turned away for lack of funds. We hope to see you there. Support Independent Animation!
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/animation-nights-new-york-anny-at-the-gutter-spare-room/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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SUMMARY:Modern Trans Narratives in Games
DESCRIPTION:This pride month\, join Boshi’s Place in celebrating some stellar narrative games\, about trans stories told across a range of genres and formats! Including semi-auto biographical\, fantasy\, sci-fi\, tumblr posts\, chat logs\, and bar tables. Proceeds go to Metro Inclusive Health of Florida\, an organization providing transgender healthcare in a place where it’s increasingly difficult to get.
URL:https://makegames.nyc/event/modern-trans-narratives-in-games/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Showcase
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