What an amazing weekend! Thanks to all our amazing speakers, workshop leaders, discussion facilitators and arcade presenters as well as the intrepid Different Games volunteer supporters and of course our hosts at NYU Poly! We’ve received lots of great media coverage … Continue reading →

Artist and game “creatrix” Anna Anthopy will share her work as an author and designer during Saturday’s Difference in Design panel (2:45-4:15 pm, Saturday April 27th) alongside Indie games luminaries Haitham Ennasr, Robert Yang and Mattie Brice. As an ambassador for … Continue reading →

Join us Saturday, April 27th for our closing keynote from Georgia Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Digital Media and Experimental Game Lab Director, Celia Pearce for her talk, titled ”Kickstarting a Revolution, One Tweet at a Time” Pearce will share insights on current issues … Continue reading →

Jacobs Building Room 215 A keynote by researcher, artist and Critical Play author Mary Flanagan, a Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. Flanagan celebrates a vision for different games by changing their creation processes and tackling pro-social issues. … Continue reading →

Interactive artist, programmer and game designer Ivan Safrin (creator of Polycode, a free, open source development tool) will lead Saturday afternoon’s Different Tools, a workshop that will provide an overview of accessible development tools and invite participants to think outside the box by looking at … Continue reading →

As part of our “Who’s at the Table?: Approaches to Inclusive Play” panel from 10:15-11:45 on Saturday, April 27th,  Parson’s Faculty Colleen Macklin and John Sharp will share their thoughts on what it takes to effect change in the game industry. Based … Continue reading →