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NSGC Weekly Digest, 1/26/11
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GAME CLUB NEWS:

Welcome Back

GAME CLUB EVENTS:

This Week: Global Game Jam
Next Week: Retro Console Gaming

AROUND TOWN:

NYC Boardgame Meetup
NYC Gaming Meetup
Board Game Social at 20 Sided store

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GAME CLUB NEWS
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Welcome Back!

School has started again and we are gearing up for another semester of games. We look forward to seeing all of your lovely faces once again.

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GAME CLUB EVENTS
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This Week: NO MEETING. We’re at GGJ!
Fri 1/27
NYU Game Center, 721 Broadway, 9th Floor Lobby

It’s only our first week back and already there are big things happening in NYC and around the world. Rather than having our usual Friday meeting, we recommend you attend the annual Global Game Jam, the world wide 48 hour game making competition. The NYC portion of the jam will be held at the NYU Game Center, and all are welcome. Go to the event, create a team, and make something amazing.

http://globalgamejam.org/node/16996
RSVP here: http://bit.ly/xjod4y

Next Week: Retro Console Gaming
Fri 2/3 @ 7PM
6 E16th, 12th Floor Lab

To kick off our first official meeting of the semester, Parsons faculty and all around games aficionado Kyle Li will be bringing in selections from his own impressive collection of retro consoles including Atari, Vectrex & many more. Get back to your roots or discover new ones as we show case the home consoles that started it all.

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Around Town
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Board Game Social at 20 Sided store
Every Thur @ 7PM

The SOCIAL is a great way for people to gather together at the Twenty Sided Store and play BOARDGAMES. This event is FREE and just for Signing up and playing a game on Thursday Nights you will automatically be entered into the monthly SOCIAL raffle for a $50 Gift Certificate.
http://twentysidedstore.com/blog/thursday-board-game-nights-in-2012
$FREE

NYC Gaming Meetup
Thu Feb 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

NYC Boardgame Meetup
Sat 2/4 @ noon – 6PM
6 E16th, 12th Floor Lab (Tentative)

With any luck, Josh DeBonis will be holding his monthly NYC board game meet up at Parsons. Come to test your game, play others or just have a good time. The room is currently being reserved, and we will update you in the next digest. Even if it is not at Parsons, the meet up will be held somewhere in NYC at the same time.
Sign for their list here: http://nycplaytest.tk/
$FREE

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GAME CLUB NEWS:

Thanks For Another Great Semester

GAME CLUB EVENTS:

This Week: End Of Semester Wrap Party

AROUND TOWN:

Babycastles @ MoMA In the Making Teen Art Show Fall 2011
The Kill Screen Dialogues
Toys And Games With A Twist
GDC Registration is Open

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GAME CLUB NEWS
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Thanks For Another Great Semester

As the semester comes to a close, we’d just like to thank everybody for helping us have a great fall. Join us when school starts back up for even more games!

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This Week: End Of Semester Twirdie Party
Fri 12/16 @ 6
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

Parsons alumni Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser are releasing a new version of their iPhone game Twirdie. In other news the semester is wrapping up and we deserve a party, thus:
Twirdie Release Party + End of Semester Party = End of Semester Twirdie Party!
So come join us as we play Twirdie (including a tournament with prizes) and a number of Party Games like J.S. Joust, B.U.T.T.O.N, and Dance Dance Revolution, as well as several games made by Parsons MFA candidates Ramiro Corbetta, Alex Fuzzy-Wobble, and Andy Wallace.

More about Twirdie: http://twirdie.com/
it’s $0.99 on the App store!

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Around Town
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Babycastles @ MoMA In the Making Teen Art Show Fall 2011
Fri 12/16 @ 5:30
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, The Museum of Modern Art, 4 West 54 Street

Join us and celebrate the MoMA Teens/Babycastles Arcade, the result of a 10-week program offered to all teens throughout New York City.
It will also be Babycastles’ two year anniversary!
more info: http://www.facebook.com/events/312898882068289/

The Kill Screen Dialogs
Fri 12/16 @ 7
The New Museum Theater, 235 Bowery

Although videogames are bigger than ever, they are often perceived as cultural silos and not in conversation with other art forms or cultures. In conjunction with videogame arts and culture company Kill Screen, Rhizome invites you to an evening of conversations between game designers and new media artists. Divided into three mini-conversations, the talks will explore three areas: artificial intelligence, with Dave Mark and Mary Flanagan; the feeling of digital objects, with Tabor Robak and Katherine Isbister; and games as space, with Casey Reas and Andy Nealen.
more info: http://www.facebook.com/events/239061216161016/
tickets: www.newmuseum.org%2Fevents%2F608&h=9AQEA0FNw
$8

Toys And Games With A Twist
12/7 – 2/1
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY

Toys & Games with a Twist is a multi-media exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculpture, video, and board and video games that investigates and comments on issues of construction of gender roles and stereotypes, consumerism, hierarchies of power, globalization, migration, memory and loss, fantasy, the environment, love, war, violence, urban and popular culture.
http://www.bronxarts.org/lag.asp

GDC Registration is Open
3/5-9

Registration for The Game Designers Conference, held each year in San Francisco is now open fro registration. Early bird passes are much cheaper, and can be bought until Feb. 2nd. And don’t forget that you can sidestep all of the trouble of paying for your pass if you are accepted as a volunteer.
http://www.gdconf.com/
$195 – 1,475

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NSGC blog:
http://newschoolgames.org/
Find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152733611503
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Questions, comments, amazing tweets: games@newschool.edu
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GAME CLUB EVENTS:

This Week: Team Fortress + Misc.
Next Week: End Of Semester Wrap Party

AROUND TOWN:

Game Design 1 Final Playtest
NYC Gaming December Meetup
GDC Registration is Open

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GAME CLUB EVENTS
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Next Week: Team Fortress
Fri 12/9 @6
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

The long awaited Team Fortress night is coming! Cancelled, pushed
backed and otherwise misaligned, fate has patiently waited for us to
get around to playing this amazing (and free!) game. As the semester
draws to a close, we will finally be doing it. Bring your laptop and
get read to rumble.
http://www.facebook.com/events/170574636373088/?context=create

Dec 16th: End Of Semester Twirdie Party
Fri 12/16 @6
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

Parsons alumni Kurt Bieg and Ramsey Nasser are releasing a new version
of their iPhone game Twirdie, in other news the semester is wrapping
up and we deserve a party, thus:
Twirdie Release Party + End of Semester Party = End of Semester Twirdie Party!
So come join us as we play Twirdie and a number of Party Games like
J.S. Joust, B.U.T.T.O.N, and Dance Dance Revolution.
http://www.facebook.com/events/177291055699785/

More about Twirdie: http://twirdie.com/
it’s $0.99 on the App store

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Game Design 1 Final Playtest
Tues 12/6 (TOMORROW) @ 6:30-9pm
9th floor lobby of the Tisch building (721 Broadway)

Eric Zimmerman’s students from Introduction to Game Design at NYU will
be playtesting their final project games – and need playtesters to try
out the games and give feedback.
Come for board games, physical games, and computer games. Free pizza
and drinks – but it is first come, first served, so arrive on time to
get your slices!
If you are coming, please email Eric so he can get an approximate
headcount for the pizza: e@ericzimmerman.com
$FREE

NYC Gaming December Meetup
Mon 12/12 @ 7pm
General Assembly, 902 Broadway

NYC Gaming is back at General Assembly this month with awesome people,
demos and drinks. Come here to meet and collaborate with New York’s
top game designers, developers, businesspeople and creatives across
multiple platforms — mobile, PC, console, social and more.
Attendees must RSVP:
http://www.meetup.com/gaming/events/41666112/?a=me1p_grp&rv=me1p
$FREE

GDC Registration is Open
3/5-9

Registration for The Game Designers Conference, held each year in San
Francisco is now open fro registration. Early bird passes are much
cheaper, and can be bought until Feb. 2nd. And don’t forget that you
can sidestep all of the trouble of paying for your pass if you are
accepted as a volunteer.
http://www.gdconf.com/
$195 – 1,475

___________________________________________________________________
NSGC blog:
http://newschoolgames.org/
Find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152733611503
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Subscribe or unsubscribe to the NSGC e-mail list:
http://groups.google.com/group/new-school-game-club?hl=en
Questions, comments, air tickets to California: games@newschool.edu
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GAME CLUB EVENTS:

This Week: Play For Non-Proffit
Next Week: Team Fortress + Misc.
Dec 16th: End Of Semester Wrap Party

AROUND TOWN:

NYCGI and IGDA NYC Drink Fest: Sponsored by SXSW Screenburn
Playtech Saturday
Anonycon

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This Week: Play For Non-Profit
Fri 12/2 @6:30 – 9
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

The New School Game Club, in conjunction with the New School Chapter of Association for International Development (AID), is hosting a panel about the relevance of games in the non-profit community. As games are increasingly used for outreach and education by non profit organizations, we need to ask ourselves a few questions. Are games appropriate uses of funds that could be used to buy medicine or other necessary supplies? How useful are they in an educational setting? Our panel of scientists, game designers, and NGO professionals will share their opinions on the topic, and we will have a question and answer session at the end.
http://www.facebook.com/events/186771578077256/

Next Week: Team Fortress + Misc.
Fri 12/9 @6
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

The long awaited Team Fortress night is coming! Cancelled, pushed backed and otherwise misaligned, fate has patiently waited for us to get around to playing this amazing (and free!) game. As the semester draws to a close, we will finally be doing it, along with a few old favorites. Bring your laptop and get read to rumble.

Dec 16th: End Of Semester Wrap Party
Fri 12/16 @6
12th Floor Lab, 6 E16th St

School might be ending, but we’re just getting started. Join us in the lab for our end of semester party where we will be playing all of the games we had the most fun with over the semester in a festive, class-is-finally-over environment. Joust and other physical games will definitely be making a comeback. More details to follow.

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Around Town
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NYCGI and IGDA NYC Drink Fest: Sponsored by SXSW Screenburn
Thur 12/1 @ 7pm
Barcade, 388 Union Ave, Brooklyn

Nycgameindustry.com is proud to partner with IGDA NYC and SXSW Screenburn for a night of free drinks, videogames, and industry networking at Barcade in Brooklyn!This is an open event and we encourage everyone in the local industry to to join us for an awesome night of arcade games, great conversation, and free drinks thanks to our event sponsor SXSW Screenburn. The event will be running from 7pm – 10pm, after which a bunch of us will be making a trip to the legendary San Loco for post Drink Fest tacos.
http://www.nycgameindustry.com/nycgi-and-igda-nyc-drink-fest-sponsored-by-sxsw-screenburn/
$FREE

Playtech Saturday
Sat 12/3 @ 1-3pm

If you have a cool game or an interactive project ready to be put to the test – join PLAYTECH on December 3, 2011 from 1 – 3pm.
AMT is hosting another PLAYTECH SATURDAY with Parsons SPACE this Fall. Youth in the Parsons Pre-College Academy and from other organizations around New York City (ages 10-18 years old) will be joining us on December 3 for another playtest extravaganza at Parsons.
To sign-up for PLAYTECH as a presenter (to play test your games/interactive projects) please sign-up here: http://goo.gl/HOl8t (participant/game designer sign-up form). Deadline for submission is on Nov. 27 (Sunday).
For additional questions you can email: playtech.parsons@gmail.com
$FREE

Anonycon
12/2 – 12/4

Happening in Stamford, CT. AnonyCon is an annual game convention that brings people together to have fun, help charity and showcase new games. Their schedule welcomes games of all types, and tries to feature games each year with opportunities for creative storytelling and problem solving.
For more info: http://anonycon.com/
$50

___________________________________________________________________
NSGC blog:
http://newschoolgames.org/
Find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152733611503
________________________________________________________________________
Subscribe or unsubscribe to the NSGC e-mail list:
http://groups.google.com/group/new-school-game-club?hl=en
Questions, comments, dice: games@newschool.edu
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GAME CLUB EVENTS:

This Week: No Meeting!

AROUND TOWN:

Play For Non-Profit
Playtech Saturday
Anonycon

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This Week: No Meeting!

Go home, eat turkey, and play some games without us. See you next week!

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Around Town
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Play For Non-Profit
Fri 12/2 @6:30 – 9
12th Floor lab, 6 E16th St

The New School Game Club, in conjunction with the New School Chapter of Association for International Development (AID), is hosting a panel about the relevance of games in the non-profit community. As games are increasingly used for outreach and education by non profit organizations, we need to ask ourselves a few questions. Are games appropriate uses of funds that could be used to buy medicine or other necessary supplies? How useful are they in an educational setting? Our panel of scientists, game designers, and NGO professionals will share their opinions on the topic, and we will have a question and answer session at the end.

Playtech Saturday
Sat 12/3 @ 1-3pm

If you have a cool game or an interactive project ready to be put to the test – join PLAYTECH on December 3, 2011 from 1 – 3pm.
AMT is hosting another PLAYTECH SATURDAY with Parsons SPACE this Fall. Youth in the Parsons Pre-College Academy and from other organizations around New York City (ages 10-18 years old) will be joining us on December 3 for another playtest extravaganza at Parsons.
To sign-up for PLAYTECH as a presenter (to play test your games/interactive projects) please sign-up here: http://goo.gl/HOl8t (participant/game designer sign-up form). Deadline for submission is on Nov. 27 (Sunday).
For additional questions you can email: playtech.parsons@gmail.com

Anonycon
12/2 – 12/4

Happening in Stamford, CT. AnonyCon is an annual game convention that brings people together to have fun, help charity and showcase new games. Their schedule welcomes games of all types, and tries to feature games each year with opportunities for creative storytelling and problem solving.
For more info: http://anonycon.com/

___________________________________________________________________
NSGC blog:
http://newschoolgames.org/
Find us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=152733611503
________________________________________________________________________
Subscribe or unsubscribe to the NSGC e-mail list:
http://groups.google.com/group/new-school-game-club?hl=en
Questions, comments, dance moves: games@newschool.edu
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