New School Game Club Weekly Digest 2/16/12
NSGC Weekly Digest, 2/16/11
CONTENTS:
GAME CLUB NEWS:
ELECTIONS TOMORROW
Doodle Defense Kickstarter
Job Talks for the Associate/Full Professor of Games and Learning At Parsons
GAME CLUB EVENTS:
This Week: Narrative Games & Elections
Next Week: Physical Games
AROUND TOWN:
Quantumkrate: A Quantum Box Game Competition
Babycastles: Sports And Circles
Demo Days
NYC Gaming Meetup
NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Ivory Tower Defense
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GAME CLUB NEWS
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ELECTIONS TOMORROW
It’s all come down to this. We are about to pass the torch to a younger generation on Game Clubbers. At tomorrow’s meeting, we will be holding officers elections. The nominees are in, but this is your last chance if you want to get involved.
Doodle Defense Kickstarter
Your truly, Andy Wallace, made a game, but it needs some funding to be really awesome. Doodle Defense is a tower defense game that explores drawing as a means for game interaction and play. Players draw mazes and towers on a whiteboard with regular dry erase markers to stop projected foes. Check it out! tinyurl.com/DoodleDefense
Job Talks for the Associate/Full Professor of Games and Learning At Parsons
New School members, please join us for an exciting round of job talks for the full-time position of Associate/Full Professor of Games and Learning (Parsons DT Program). These public, on-campus presentations to our students, faculty, and staff allows candidates to present themselves in the context of their research, scholarship or creative practice, and pedagogical philosophy. (For New School members only)
Nick Fortugno
Wednesday, February 22nd at 12:00-1:00pm
2 W. 13th Street, SDJC, The Orientation Room, (Bark Room).
John Sharp
Monday, February 27th at 10:00-11:00am
66 W. 12 Street, 5th Floor, Room A510
Jeff Watson
Monday, February 27th at 2:00-3:00pm
66 W. 12 Street, 5th Floor, Room A510
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GAME CLUB EVENTS
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Tomorrow: Narrative Games & Elections
Fri 2/17 @ 7PM
6 E16th, 12th Floor Lab
Join us as we explore games focussing on story telling and how narrative can be created in a game system. Weave new tales with games like Once Upon A Time or relive classics like Arabian Nights and Lord of The Rings. And before the games start, we will be holding ELECTIONS!
Next Week: Physical Games & Joust Tournament
Fri 2/24 @ 7PM
6 E16th, 12th Floor Lab
It’s our last Game Club meeting and we wanted to go out with a bang, so we’re going to stand up, move around and maybe even hit each other as we play PHYSICAL GAMES. In addition to R. Corbetta’s Shove, YaMove & some classic non-digital games including the precursor to Ninja, PDQ, we all be holding a Johann Sebastian Joust tournament. IGF Nuovo award finalist, J.S. Joust has become a club favorite, and if you have never played this beautiful no-screen game or you are an old pro eager to show off your skills, join us next Friday.
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Around Town
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Quantumkrate: A Quantum Box Game Competition
Starts Sat 2/18
Quantum Box is proud to present their very first Game Development Competition with BitSyncom. There are prizes involved.
The Competition will begin on February 18th and will continue through the 25th. The theme will be announced on the 17th, 23:45 UTC. BitSyncom will be providing Bitcoins to the top participants. The current prize distributions are 10 bitcoins to first place, 5 bitcoins to second place, and 2 bitcoins to third place (the current bitcoin to dollar exchange rate at the time of writing is $5.94).
More info here: http://quantum-box.com/2012/02/03/quantumkrate-the-game-dev-competition/
$FREE
Demo Days
Sat 2/18 @ 4:30
Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer Street Room 109
DemoDays is on a roll, and this time we’re pulling out all the stops – with 15 rapid-fire student demos and a special keynote live-coding session with Jeremy Ashkenas (@jashkenas), creator of Coffeescript, Backbone.js, Underscore, and Ruby-Processing! His Github reads a bit like a “Best of Tech” list!
info & RSVP here: http://febdemodays.eventbrite.com/?ref=enivte&invite=MTY3Mzc1MS9mcmllajcxNUBuZXdzY2hvb2wuZWR1LzA%3D&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=invitenew&utm_term=attend
$FREE
Babycastles: Sports And Circles
Mon 2/20 @ 8PM
Death By Audio, 49 South 2ND ST, Brooklyn
Sports and Circles will mark Babycastles’ return to a permanent home with MONTHLY exhibitions. Mark Kleback has graciously helped us setup a new arcade at DBA and co-curate this show with Game Club’s very own Haitham Nasr. The games featured will be Pole Riders by B. Foddy, Hokra by (Parsons game designer)R. Corbetta, Enzo by C. Makris & Circadia by K. Bieg
Info about the events and the games here: http://www.facebook.com/events/348241415197664/
$5-$7 SUGGESTED DONATION
NYC Gaming Meetup
Thu 2/23 @ 7PM
General Assembly, 902 Broadway, New York
NYC Gaming is back at General Assembly this month with awesome people, demos and drinks. Come to meet and collaborate with New York’s top game designers, developers, businesspeople and creatives across multiple platforms — mobile, PC, console, social and more.
Want to show off your game this month? Complete this form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj7fzpGvCtEsdERvTGhZYWZoYlI2QmJJWDRuYnFIZUE&hl=en_US#gid=0
RSVP here: http://gamingfebruary.eventbrite.com/
$10
NYU Game Center Lecture Series: Ivory Tower Defense
Thu 2/23 @ 7PM
721 Broadway, Lower Level Room 006
Do games belong in the university? Do you need a degree to make games? What can we get out of studying them? What is the connection between research and design? Join us for a spirited conversation with the faculty of the NYU Game Center to discuss the complex relationship between games and higher education. Frank Lantz will moderate Katherine Isbister, Jesper Juul, and Eric Zimmerman as they debate these important issues and discuss the work they are doing to create a shared vision for the study of games at the NYU Game Center.
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/yfwig0%20
$FREE
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