Posts about events held at the MIT Game Lab, such as our weekly Friday Games play sessions, public lectures, and workshops.
Instead of Friday Games this week, we’re going to lend our support (and remote scrutiny) to Abe Stein, dauntless audio director, blogger, and grad student at the MIT Game Lab! On April 5th, he will give a short presentation on …
Friday Talks: Televisual Sports Videogames (Abe Stein!) Read more »
This post was written by conference co-chair Konstantin Mitgutsch. A little background about unconventional game politics When in 2006 a tragic school shooting took place in Emsdetten (Germany), a new initiative for censorship in Austria was instigated by political parties …
FTL is an indie game that brings to life everything we know about space travel: targeting engines, redirecting power to shields, evacuating airlocks, teleporting away teams. This starship-management game was an early Kickstarter success and is now a critically-acclaimed example …
StarCraft II just had its first expansion pack (remember those?) featuring new units and a new campaign, plus a good number of community features that both reflect the state of eSports and hearken back to the Battle.net of the ’90s. …
Last April, the GAMBIT Lab hosted our first ever “Gayme Jam,” bringing together local designers, artists, and interested people in a one-day event to create games with LGBTQ themes. The event was a ton of fun, and one of the …
The MIT Game Lab QUILTBAG Jam! on Saturday, April 6th Read more »
This past January, we hosted the 5th annual Global Game Jam at MIT along with the MIT Education Arcade and Learning Games Network. Over 100 people got together (many of whom had never met or worked with each other before) …
Global Game Jam 2013 – 48 hours, 100 jammers… 27 games! Read more »
With the recent reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise by Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics, it’s a good opportunity to take a look at where the series began. We’ll play the original 1996 Tomb Raider from Eidos and Core Design …
What has changed over 28 years? This Friday, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of Karateka, a game from Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia, The Last Express). The original game (which we will play on an emulator) was developed for the …
It’s been more than a month since our last Friday Games! This will not stand. Actually, the lab has been going through a big renovation. Rik has been working tirelessly to get the TV and streaming computer mounted on the …
This Friday, the programmers of A Slower Speed of Light will take questions from Reddit! We’ll also show some old builds of the game and (if the room is interested) a preview of OpenRelativity, our open-source release of the game …