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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]
New York City has become a hotbed for pioneering independent game developers whose unique artistic expression rarely gets the spotlight it deserves. We can change this by finding new ways to work together, creating a more cohesive and inclusive community in the process. Our panel of four community leaders are passionate about this goal. Each […]
NYC’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.
🕹️ Play 50+ New and Unreleased Games
From 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.
Don’t just play games. Play them first.
join us on saturday 10/18 @ 8pm for an international crossover event with our friends from ]repair in shanghai! at the same time they will be showing our games in new york, we'll have a curation of chinese games, a portal to interact with the attendees in shanghai, and a fax machine(?!!)
Elaine Gómez is a Borikua (Puerto Rican) and Kiskeyan (Dominican) game designer with nearly a decade of experience in game design and development. Her talk will focus on the initiatives, collaboration and advocacy work Latinx in Gaming has launched to best support and uplift Latine developers and creatives, regardless of where they are in the world. […]
Join us for our sort-of ;) 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.
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