NYU Game Center

Global Game Jam 2012

NYU Game Center is hosting a Global Game Jam site where students and local developers will be challenged to create a game in only three days!

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event occurring annually in late January. GGJ brings together thousands of game enthusiasts participating through many local jams around the world. GGJ is a project of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).

Last January, the Game Center was proud to host a very successful location for the Global Game Jam 2011. We were one of the largest game sites in the world, bringing in folks from all around the New York area to meet the challenge of making a game in 48 hours. In addition to this success, one of the games made at the Game Center, Ned, You Really Suck the Life Out of the Room was selected by Gamesauce as one of the top 10 games from the 1,487 games made. We look forward to another great year!

More than one hundred people have already reserved a spot for the event so be sure to RSVP right away!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/xjod4y

Tags: Gamesauce, GGJ, Global Game Jam, IGDA

Permalink | January 17th, 2012

Game Center MFA

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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.

To sign up for announcements simply send an email to gamecenter@nyu.edu with 'gclistserv' in the title.

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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 closed during Winter Break and will reopen on Monday 1/23. Normal hours are Monday - Friday from 2PM - 8PM.

Click here to see our collection of games.