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December 2013

Friday Games: Going, Going, GONE!

December 13, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
MIT Game Lab, mit building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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Going Going GONE box

Join Scott Nicholson, director of the Because Play Matters game lab at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, to learn about his recently published recreational board game, Going, Going, GONE! During this session, Scott will talk through the four-year design and submission processes behind this (what appears to be a) simple and straightforward live-time auction game. The game will also be available to play afterwards."

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February 2014

Friday Games: Black Hat Oculus

February 21, 2014 @ 4:00 am - 6:00 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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Spend your Friday with the staff and students of the MIT Game Lab playing games with us!

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March 2014

Friday Games: Strider

March 7, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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This week in Friday Games we’ll look at a few of Strider Hiryuu’s video game incarnations, from the NES game based on the character’s manga origins, to his playable appearances in Capcom’s Vs. series fighting games, to the recent Metroidvania-y series reboot by Double Helix. We will start at 4pm ET in MIT room 26-153. You can also watch online on our TwitchTV stream.

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Friday Games: Ste Curran & Karaokards

March 14, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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This Friday, Ste is visiting the MIT Game Lab to give us a tase of his unique style of game related storytelling as well as showing his soon to be released game Karaokards which recently was successfully funded on Kickstarter.

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Friday Games: Indirect Conflict

March 21, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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We've handed the reins to this week's Friday Games to our affiliate, Aerjen Tamminga: This Friday will be an exploration of some of the Euro Games that inspired me to make Pleasant Dreams. I often (accidentally) make games with indirect conflict due to my over-exposure to Euro Games. Come join us at MIT in building 26, room 153 or watch online on our Twitch.TV channel.

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May 2014

Friday Games: Fashion = POWER!

May 2, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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Above: Yuna, Rikku, and newcomer Paine are the stars in Final Fantasy X-2. Image Credit: Square Enix

In honor of the Final Fantasy X-2 HD re-release, we will play games where fashion is a gameplay mechanic, including the new Final Fantasy XII Lightning Returns, The World Ends With You, Assassin's Creed: Liberation, and others.

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Friday Games: SC2VN (with developer interview!)

May 9, 2014 @ 4:00 am - 5:30 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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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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Friday Games: Game Lab Research sneak-peek!

May 16, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
MIT Game Lab, MIT Building 26
Cambridge, MA 02139 United States
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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.

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October 2014

Friday Games: Black Hat Oculus

October 3, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
32-155, 32 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02143 United States
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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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November 2014

Friday Games: Super Smash Bros

November 21, 2014 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
32-144, 32 Vassar St
Cambridge, MA 02143 United States
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WARNING! CHALLENGER APPROACHING! Join us as we break out the brand new Super Smash Bros. for Wii U on launch day! Smash Bros. is one of the most beloved fighters around, pitting classic Nintendo and other video game characters against each other in crazy fun free-for-alls. This new iteration has a whole gamut of features that promise to make the brawling melee action even more frenetic, including up to eight players (!!!) in one battle and an expanded roster of …

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