Game Design Days
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Hosted by Arcade Commons and Hex House
11/19/2024 6:00pm
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Come play a selection of indie arcade games from Arcade Commons' collection! Hear about upcoming projects, and an extra special conversation with journalists and thinkers on the larger culture around video games.
Bring (Or Make) Your Own Game Night: Ancient Game Edition
Hosted by Woodbine
11/19/2024 6:30pm
585 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
From elite strategic pastimes to gamblers' delights, games are as old as civilization itself. Woodbine invites you to take a trip into the distant past to explore the mechanics of chance, competition, and fun from bygone eras. Come play with homemade and 3D printed boards and pieces and experience games ranging from the Royal Game of Ur to Mancala. The twist? Some of these games only survive physically intact with partial-to-no rules. In the spirit of Woodbine's ethos as a cooperative space for practicing autonomy, we invite you to collaborate with your fellow players to fill in the gaps and explore the interactions that result. Or you can start from scratch and make/decorate your own game with materials provided by Woodbine. If all that sounds too daunting, feel free to bring your own easy-to-teach board/card games or select one from Woodbine's library. Regardless of the path you choose, come kick off Game Design Days by meeting new people, playing some (very) old games, and contemplating how previous cultures spent their leisure time - and why.
Games Against the Empire Panel
Hosted by Boshi's Place and Night City Games
11/19/2024 7:00pm
1002 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
To accompany our curation of anti-imperialist games, Boshi's is hosting a panel of game developers and activists to talk about the role of the arts in social change, particularly games and what their strengths or weaknesses are in teaching us about systems.
Featured panelists:
- Paolo Pedercini (Molleindustria)
- Kas Ghobadi (thestaticman)
- Yasmine Batniji (Gabbah Baya)
- Mikael Jakobsson (co-author of Playing Oppression)
- Luke Sweeney (of Art for the People South Florida)
We will also stream this event! twitch.tv/boshisplace
Cocktails Careers & Conversations
Hosted by Women in Games NYC and Gumbo Collective, Inc.
11/20/2024 6:00pm
53 Bridge St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us for a very special Women in Games NYC event. We're part of the Game Design Days circuit - a week of local games industry events leading up to No Quarter {link}.
One of our missions is to continue to provide career advancement / support to fellow women in games. To that end, this event will be centered around:
- navigating job search in the dumpster fire that is the current games industry
- resume + portfolio review
- comp negotiation and title advancement
- skill-building + resource-sharing
We'll have drinks and a catered dinner + dessert (with vegan options!), some convo prompts, and build out some time to go over whatever folks want to talk about!
Game Design Days is supported by NYU Game Center and Empire State Development.
BumbleBear Open Studio
11/20/2024 6:00pm
68 Jay St. #905, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Come check out the BumbleBear office, meet the developers, and play some of our in-development games
Scrapeboard 🛹💥 Family Fun NITE 🌝✨
Hosted by Barnyardia and Chinatown Fair Family Fun Center
11/20/2024 8:00pm
8 Mott St, Manhattan, NY 10013
Scrapeboard will be set up to play for free for one night at Manhattan's historic Chinatown Fair Arcade!
We will have exclusive prizes, custom gacha balls, a chicken nugget toaster, and in celebration of Chinatown Fair's famous dancing chicken - a live chicken 🐔
The arcade's lineup of games includes DDR, Pump it Up, Jubeat, Sound Voltex, Mario Kart, and more. Tickets from games like Skee Ball can be exchanged for prizes, including prizes available just at the event.
Scrapeboard is a new kind of arcade game played on a skateboard deck and four metal floor pads. It has been shown at many events, conventions, and festivals, including GDC, MAGFest, PlayNYC, AwesomeCon, TooManyGames, Wonderville, Maker Faire, and more.
Zine Jam
Hosted by Boshi's Place and TXTbooks
11/21/2024 10:00am
1002 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
join boshi's place in an experimental zine jam exploring themes of anti-imperialism through collaborative zine-making. zines historically have been an accessible medium for correspondence, collaboration, and community-building. in this 3-hour session, boshi's place will provide all the necessary materials to create zine(s) together.
TTRPG Writing Workshop
Hosted by Scryptid Games and Twenty-Sided Store
11/21/2024 7pm
280 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
An interactive creative event co-produced by Scryptid Games and Twenty Sided, TTRPG Writing Workshop welcomes both new & experienced game designers to do some generative work together! Part jam, part panel, part writing sprint, this experience will lead off with a short (~25 minute) panel discussion of tabletop design in 2024 among working indie TTRPG designers. Thus inspired, we'll dive into a series of dynamic creative prompts that get you writing and designing for TTRPGs. Food and drink will be provided, and all attendees are invited to browse the cutting-edge collection of indie TTRPG zines at the Twenty Sided Store.
Games Against the Empire Showcase
Hosted by Boshi's Place and Night City Games
11/21/2024 7:00pm
1002 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Come to boshi's place for a gallery show curated in partnership with Night City Games, exhibiting games that mechanically or thematically examine imperialism, colonialism, oppression, and/or resistance.
Outdoor Games
Hosted by Boshi's Place
11/23/2024 1:00pm [rescheduled from 11/21]
Cooper Park, Morgan Ave & Maspeth Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Come play games in the park with Boshi! We will start off with some chill folk games, then play the worker rights LARP ""Boss Battle"" by NYU alum Joel Jordon at 3pm. After that, we'll switch to some field games that will get everyone off their feet.
Feel free to join and leave at any time. We will provide warm tea and all game equipment. We have one of those big parachutes.
No Quarter
Hosted by The NYU Game Center
11/23/2024 7:00pm
370 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
No Quarter is back! On Saturday 23 November No Quarter will be returning for its 2024 edition!
No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from leading artists working across games are debuted. No Quarter returns to New York this Fall on Saturday the 23rd of November. The event is free to attend, but spaces are limited. Tickets are available at the RSVP link below.
Every year No Quarter commissions new work from leading artists working in games and related fields. These works premiere for one night only as part of the iconic No Quarter exhibition. (see our poster in action below)
The No Quarter 2024 exhibition will take place at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn on Saturday November 23rd and will be open from 7pm to 10pm.
No Quarter 2024 is curated by Marie Foulston with artwork and visual identity by Jake Terrell.