NYU Game Center

Janet Murray Lecture Video Added

On September 23rd Janet Murray delivered an excellent lecture titled “Game Changers: Innovative Design Within Established Tradition”. In the lecture she explores the relationship of games to other forms of culture and what kinds of innovations are most valuable to the evolving field of games.

Check out the video below or click here for the youtube link.

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Game Center MFA

The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice

Established in 2008, the NYU Game Center is part of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. We celebrate games as a creative practice, and offer courses and public programs on the design, production, and study of games as an aesthetic and cultural form. It is part of our mission to establish New York City as a center of innovation in this important field.

We are located at 721 Broadway 9th Floor, New York, New York 10003.

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Open Library

The Open Library serves as a location where students of all colleges within the university can gather to experience first hand the enormous range of artistic expression available in games. Its purpose is to provide access to digital games within a context of critical analysis and discussion. The Open Library currently catalogues nearly 1,000 titles between 14 systems.

The Open Library is also a community center for the Game Center, hosting events including the NYU PLAY! Club, student librarian curation events, tournaments, and more.

The Open Library is open Monday - Friday from 2PM - 8PM.

Click here to see our collection of games.