Make Games NYC Past Events from July 23 – May 7 – Make Games NYC

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Wonderville’s last Tuesday of the month PLAYTEST

Playtest Night is EVERY last Tuesday of EVERY month at Wonderville! Come to Wonderville to playtest in production games! If you're a developer, bring your game! No signups required.

NYC Handmade Meetup

This event is a part of the NYC group of the Handmade Cities meetups. 5-6: Coworking 6-8: Demos / talks Most people just come and watch, so no need to demo anything! Demos are usually around 15 mins.

Unreal NYC August Meet-Up

Join us for our monthly 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. ​Each meetup features technical sessions, live demos, and discussions with community experts. Speakers ​Arturo Brena: How to Leverage Your Unreal Engine Skills in […]

Brooklyn Experimental Electronic Music Group

Join the local electronic music community at Wonderville for our showcase featuring an eclectic mix of New York City artists working in a variety of styles. Organized by Metamyther

NYC Indie Games Social

The NYC Indie Games social is a monthly gathering for indie game devs of all stripes to mix and mingle in a casual, relaxed setting. --- NYC Indie Games: https://jesshaskins.com/nycindiegames Sign up for email notifications of new events: https://buttondown.email/nycindiegames

Monthly 2 Hr GameJam Club: ZZT

This month we are using ZZT to make action adventure games in under 2 hours. Bring a computer and come out! Good for beginners and experts. Bring a computer and come out! Good for beginners and experts. 1:00 PM Doors 1:30 PM Workshop 2:00 PM Game Jam Starts! 4:00 PM Jam Ends, Presentations Start! 5:00 […]

Official GDoCExpo 2025 Watch Party

Expect GDoCExpo conference sessions broadcast live to the big screen, game stations, and dedicated space available for attendees to mingle and network in-person. We've partnered with OS NYC, the home for gamers and streamers in New York City, fitted with a huge screen for GDoCExpo, top of the line PCs, Xboxes, PS5s, Switches, streaming booths, and […]

Playtest Thursday at NYU Game Center

NYU Game Center 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

NOTE: THIS PLAYTEST THURSDAY ENDS EARLY AT 7:00PM DUE TO AN EVENT DIRECTLY FOLLOWING PLAYTEST THURSDAY! If you’re making a game, you need to playtest! Bring your work-in-progress game and get feedback from fellow game makers. No game is too early in development for Playtest Thursday, and all types of games are welcome. Bring your […]

How to Play the Sondheim Way – A Lecture & Workshop with Barry Joseph

NYU Game Center 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Join us for How to Play the Sondheim Way: A Parlor Game Workshop, a 90-minute lecture/workshop designed for game designers to discover how the playful approach to parlor games of the famed lyricist/composer Stephen Sondheim can inspire our own creative practices. Based on the new book Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Games and Puzzles of the […]

Playframes – How Do We Know We Are Playing? A Lunchtime Talk with Celia Pearce

NYU Game Center 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Playframes (MIT Press) builds on the work of Gregory Bateson and Erving Goffman to take a deep dive into Bateson's primary question: How do we know we're playing? In this book, Celia Pearce addresses this question by building a comprehensive theory of the specific mechanisms that meta-communicate the message "this is play." Join us for a book […]

NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Zeke Virant

NYU Game Center 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Picking Up Things in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Join us for a talk on how MachineGames developed a first-person game focused on simulating hands-on experiences and adventure over action. This talk goes through the design process for developing the GRIP system (grab, reach out, interact, push), the hurdles of encouraging hand-to-hand combat over gun […]

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