The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.
Push Button Game Jam
Students who attend will form teams and create design and technical prototypes that will eventually become full fledged games by the end of the month.
Podcast: “MIT Alumni in the Game Industry”
The MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
MIT Alumni in the Game Industry
The MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
Podcast and Liveblog: Todd Harper, “The Culture of Digital Fighting Games”
The culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures.
Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
A talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
Seeing and Experiencing Relativity — A New Tool for Teaching?
A paper about relativity and “riding a beam of light,” as explored through the MIT Game Lab game “A Slower Speed of Light”.
