"Why Did I Make This?" Bennet Foddy
Twitch stream starts in half an hour.
In-person event at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social is sold out.
Tune in here: www.twitch.tv/nyugamecenter
THIS THURSDAY!
On evenings with Lecture Series events, *PLAYTEST THURSDAY ENDS EARLY AT 7:00PM!*
We will still have Playtest Thursday this week, but it will conclude 30 minutes early to accommodate for the lecture.
To join the PTT guest list, fill out this form here: forms.gle/fPSCj9UE47YJ...
You're invited to NYU Game Center GDC Meetup Alumni, Students, and Friends of the Game Center! Join us to kick off GDC!! (RSVP Required) MONDAY March 9, 2026, 5:00 - 8:00pm WERQWISE, 149 New Montgomery Street, 4th floor Free Food & Drinks (While Supplies Last) RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/qTTfMC1gjnRcB8FA6
We'll be at GDC next week!
Join us at the NYU Game Center meetup next Monday, March 9th from 5 - 8pm at WERQWISE (149 New Montgomery Street, 4th Floor)
Meet Game Center devs, catch up with alumni and friends of the department, and enjoy some refreshments!
RSVP Here: forms.gle/qTTfMC1gjnRc...
Game friends, I won't be at GDC this year, but if you are going, please be sure to check out the Ukrainian Games Festival, just a hop-skip from Moscone, March 10-11.
Related: please read this post by Olga Sheverieva about working in games while your country is invaded, then bombed daily. #ukraine
The #gamewriting SIG will be at GDC, hosting events where you can meet and mingle with fellow game writers! We have awesome stuff planned for the entire week, so be sure to check out the schedule!
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Game writers and narrative designers: NEW book and podcast, just for you!
Our game collectives mixer at @officialgdc.bsky.social will be 🔥🔥🔥 because we will have stickers and who doesn't love stickers?? And ofc representation from game dev collectives all over the world 🌍🌎🌏🌐
More info here
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Meet us at the Yerba Buena Gardens for some food, friends, and good times! Be sure to RSVP below so we can make sure we have enough food for everyone!
RSVP ⬇️
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Wednesday, March 11 | 2–4pm PST
Picnic En El Parque
Yerba Buena Gardens
#LatinxInGaming #GDC2026
📆 Wednesday March 12, 1pm PT South Asian Game Dev Meetup | Yerba Buena Gardens Waterfall
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👤 @indrani.bsky.social
👤 @ekanaut.bsky.social
BIG FEST 20 26 Calling all game developers and industry professionals! Join us at BIG Fest for a full day of events supporting the Black gaming community. Featuring industry panels, indie games showcase and playtests, curated music, an esports tournament for women and femmes, networking activities, and more! RSVP ON PARTIFUL MARCH 10, 2026 @ 9:30AM-4:00PM CHILDREN'S CREATIVITY MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO Gameheads alóz Cultural BLACK IN GAMING TAMES GAMES FOUNDATION
📆 Tuesday March 11, 9:30am – 4pm PT BIGFest | Black in Gaming
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👤 @blackingaming.bsky.social
🚨 Ctrl + Unite GDC 2026! 🚨
A first-ever collab between
@latinxingaming.bsky.social
@blackingaming.bsky.social
@aapiingaming.bsky.social
🎮 Indie games
🎤 Microtalks
🎶 Food + music + culture
⚠️ Limited capacity. Register now:
👉https://bit.ly/ctrlunite
Built for us, by us. Don’t miss it!
GDOC Game Devs of Color Meetup Join us for our first official Game Devs of Color community meetup at GDC! WHEN March 11, 2026 | 11AM-12PM PT WHERE Moscone Center, Exhibit Level North/South, GDC Commons - Hall D, Room 9
Join Game Devs of Color for our first official #GDC meetup!💙💚
📆 Wed, Mar 11
Open to #gamedev, creatives, industry professionals, & anyone who wants to make lasting relationships that extend beyond GDC.
Register: luma.com/huna2b6d
Check out this thread for our friends' events too!🧵
our game typing party at the bar wonderville in brooklyn
our game wrapped up for the move
Our very old arcade cabinet we made for Typing Party has been at @wonderville.nyc since 2019 but today we just moved it to The Museum of the Moving Image (will be available there later in the month)!
Here's the video! youtu.be/C3x2m75EZr0?...
Paul Weeks made Touch Love Arena and @scrambleheart.city
Art and Craft of fighting games:
Building Blocks
GameplayDesign
Balancing
Best Practices
#NYMakesGames
Exhibitor inquiry form for PLAY NYC (August, at Javits). Four days in combination with Anime NYC, which draws 100K visitors, according to the form.
#NYMakesGames
#NYMakesGames WISHLIST!
March 26!
Speaker applications are now open. We look forward to hearing from you! Apply now!
🎤 Speaker apps are OPEN for #GDoCExpo 2026 (Sept 22–25, online)!
🗣 Microtalks, Talks, Panels & Dev Interviews wanted!
💰 All speakers are paid!
✔ We’re looking for powerful, thought-provoking sessions about games & beyond.
Apply by April 18 (11:59pm ET)!
www.gamedevsofcolor.org/apply
#gamedev
⭐️NEW Event Added⭐️
🔍 PlayNYC
🗓️ 20 - 23 Aug
🌍 New York, NY
Register → play.nyc
Follow → @playcrafting.bsky.social
Find out more about #gamedev events at Game Conference Guide.
The 💥N E X T G E N💥 of gaming is BACK for 2026. PlayNYC @ @animenyc is NYC’s premier gaming event — now FOUR EPIC days at the Javits Center packed with indie & tabletop games, devs, gamers, and industry pros.
Learn more at www.play.nyc
SAVE THE DATE!
Play NYC 2026 is Aug 20-23 at Javits
Sign up for news, badges are on sale now (a double bonus, as you get into Anime NYC, too).
#NYMakesGames
18 Days to Go!
#NYMakesGames Theresa Loong, the director and a #gamedev, is based in NYC: loong.com/about
There was some chatter about the Old Skies blooper and commentary reel here on BlueSky, so I made this little mini supercut version. It's only a tiny fraction of what appears within the game itself, but should give you an idea of what to expect! (e.g., everyone acting very very silly).
"Safe In Our World" logo centered on a coral-red pixel-art background, surrounded by playful gaming and mental health themed doodles including controllers, a brain, planets, flowers, and a beanbag chair.
Mental Health is also a vital part of accessibility!! That’s why we’ve partnered with @safeinourworld.org, a UK charity dedicated to fostering global mental health awareness in the games industry. The mission? To eliminate stigma and make mental health challenges safe to express ❤️
March 14 (12 to 6 pm), just a few tickets left!
At The Tiny Cupboard in Brooklyn
Game devs: Got a tabletop game to bring to a future event? There's a link to the interest form on the event page.
#NYMakesGames
More excellent reasons to trek to NYC's screen museum (in Queens):
Sopranos exhibit just opened (strong emphasis on writing, acting, storytelling, character narrative design)
Retro games!
Hands-on studio for playing around with mo-cap, green screens, coloring, VR, stop-motion animation.
And humans prefer AI that can deliver it to them. Another study developed a Bullshit Index to measure the gap between what an LLM internally “believes” (the probability it assigns to a statement being true) and what it actually tells you. After the models underwent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the standard process by which LLMs are tuned to be helpful and agreeable, the Bullshit Index almost doubled. In other words: the human-guided training process designed to make AI more pleasing to users also made it dramatically more indifferent to truth.
There are many devils in the dank, latent realm of LLMs. But the reinforcement-learning-human-feedback devil is one of the worst, most craven and conniving of these devils.
Here's the video! youtu.be/C3x2m75EZr0?...
Paul Weeks made Touch Love Arena and @scrambleheart.city
Art and Craft of fighting games:
Building Blocks
GameplayDesign
Balancing
Best Practices
#NYMakesGames
Tune in March 6: Adventure Game Hotshot Awards!
Full list of finalists and categories at the link, including several #NYMakesGames titles!
Which one will win the top prize: Best Adventure Game of 2025?
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Video posted!
PAUL WEEKS, How to Design a Fighting Game
At our Feb Level Up Tuesday. Our next monthly event is March 17 (third Tuesdays), speaker and showcase details coming soon.
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