May 2014
Friday Games: SC2VN (with developer interview!)
Still in development, SC2VN (StarCraft Progaming Visual Novel) is a fascinating marriage of the visual novel game genre and eSports. You play through the daily dilemmas of an aspiring professional gamer who has moved to South Korea to break into the highly competitive scene. The protagonist must not only face the challenges of the world’s best StarCraft 2 players, but also the issues that come with leaving everything behind to pursue a dream in an uncertain industry. Players interact with …
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Find out more »Friday Games: Game Lab Research sneak-peek!
MIT Game Lab staff will be giving a sneak peek at the games and research projects they worked on with their undergraduate researchers this past year. We'll be demonstrating a few board and card game prototypes as well as latest work conducted in our MIT Overseer project (Starcraft 2 Observer mods). Come join us at MIT in building 26, room 153 or watch online on our Twitch.TV channel.
Find out more »June 2014
@party 2014
@party is a demoparty, or collaborative computer art festival where people participate in a variety of competitions that allow them to demonstrate their technical and artistic skills. These include graphics, music, games, wild, and of course demo (see our website for rules).
Find out more »Playtest Best Practices Workshop
In this workshop, MIT Game Lab design staff Sara Verrilli and Rik Eberhardt will walk participants through best practices for getting useful data and feedback during board game playtest sessions.
Concepts covered include how to be a 'good' tester (as a game designer and as a 'naive' player), how to interact with your testers, and how to best analyze feedback received from testers.
Find out more »July 2014
Boston Indies Meeting – “Marketing and PR like a (Soda Drinker) Pro!”
When it comes to marketing a game there are a lot of ways to go about it, from traditional PR to media buying, conventions, social media and much more. As an indie game developer it's important to know exactly where to spend limited time and resources to make sure you get the most out of your marketing budget. We'll be going over the pros and cons of some of the most popular marketing techniques as well as helpful tips on what you can do to make your game a success.
Find out more »August 2014
Boston Indies Meeting – Lightning Talks
The MIT Game Lab is happy to host the Boston Indies group this August for their monthly meeting. This month features a round of 'Lightning Talks' - short talks, rants, or raves from members of the Boston Indies communities about topics that are important to them.
Find out more »September 2014
Boston Festival of Indie Games 2014
The Boston Festival of Indie Games is a celebration of independent game development with emphasis on the New England and neighboring regions. The Boston Festival of Indie Games seeks to support and showcase the efforts of independent game developers by providing an inclusive, safe, family-friendly event that encourages attendees to share and interact with games in various media, from video games to tabletop games and beyond. The Boston Festival of Indie Games is focused on creating an intersection between community, academic and development interests in game play.
Find out more »Boston Indies Meeting – September Demo Night
The MIT Game Lab is happy to host the Boston Indies group this September for their monthly meeting. This month features their regular Demo Night. Members from the community are encouraged to polish up the current iteration of their works in progress and bring it in to show off and get feedback!
Find out more »Riot Games at MIT: Big Data and Champion Design
Riot Games is coming to MIT to talk with us about how data and research influence the design of their game, League of Legends. We have two speakers: (A Week in the) Life of a Data Engineer Speaker: Chris Kudelka Ever wonder what an average week looks like for a big data engineer at Riot Games? Chris Kudelka, a data engineer at Riot Games, will share his personal experience breaking into gaming, how League of Legends and data thrive together, …
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Find out more »October 2014
Friday Games: Black Hat Oculus
Come see and play an in-progress game developed by MIT and MIT Game Lab alumni for the Oculus Rift: Black Hat Oculus.
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