UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

We are an experimental research & development lab that fosters the development of computer games and game-related research at UCLA. games.ucla.edu Los Angeles, CA Joined April 2010

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

2 weeks ago

We spoke with Evan Ibarra about QUETIAPINE, an experimental game about trauma, memory, and the complexities of psychiatric treatment. Music by Luka Fisher 🎮 pinootgu.itch.io/quetiapine

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UCLA Game Lab resident Aidan Strong @Str0nkyK0ng is featured in @rockpapershot for TEXTURETOWN, a Frankenstein's MMO stitched together from the remains of dead online worlds. rockpapershotgun.com/texturetown-is…

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

4 months ago

Enrollment is now open for the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute! A 3-week program for high school students exploring game-making as an artistic practice. Learn game design, animation, worldbuilding, and programming. Online or on campus sessions🕹️si.games.ucla.edu

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

a month ago

This is the final week to see CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES, the @UCLA_DMA MFA 2026 exhibition, before it closes May 28! Work featured in video by: Xiner Lan and Sagan Yee Poster by: Sadia Quddus

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

a month ago

Jenna Caravello is presenting Golem Lover: Avatar-Mediated Relationships and the Emergent Languages of Game Worlds on May 22 at the Digital Subjectivities International Conference at @fu_berlin. You don't want to miss this! More info: digital-subjectivities.de

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

a month ago

TOMORROW! Join us at the UCLA Broad Art Center’s New Wight Gallery on May 14 at 5pm for the opening night of CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES, a group exhibit featuring new works by the @UCLA_DMA UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

2 months ago

Interviewing Xiner Lan of Eversea Club about creating DisplaceMen, a magic realist ADV nominated for Best Student Game at Independent Games Festival 2025.🎨 Play as a broke painter collecting strange objects and uncovering the hidden lives of characters.🫟 leaf-a.itch.io/displacemen

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

2 months ago

Join us Tuesday 4/28 at 5pm in the EDA to hear Pippin Barr @pippinbarr speak on Playing the Variation Game: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Game Design. This lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

2 months ago

Enrollment is open for the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute! A 3-week program for high school students exploring game-making as an artistic practice. Learn game design, animation, worldbuilding, and programming. Online or on campus sessions👾si.games.ucla.edu🎮

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

3 months ago

🎮 Enrollment is open for the UCLA Game Lab Summer Institute! 🎨 A 3-week program for high school students to learn game-making as an artistic practice! 💥 Online OR in-person @ UCLA ✅ 4 UC credits ✅ Portfolio-ready work ✅ Final exhibition Apply now: si.games.ucla.edu

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

3 months ago

Making strange, personal, and unconventional games is always possible - but sustaining that work financially is harder than most developers expect. This talk explored the real tradeoffs behind funding, developing, and publishing artistic games for a commercial audience.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

3 months ago

Thank you to Alyssa Kollgaard, COO of @akuparagames (Cryptmaster, Sorry We're Closed, The Darkside Detective, Rain World) and founder of Publisher Pathfinder, for sharing insights with us in her talk Weird Games, Real Money: Creating Experimental Work in a Commercial World.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

4 months ago

LAYERS UPON LAYERS: A @ucla_dma Mid Residency Exhibition by Aidan Strong @str0nkyk0ng. Disjointed fragments and particulates from eroded forms, each holding only partial memory of its origin, gathered and molded into something new. ⏳👾🏜️

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

4 months ago

A look at Stone Mill Grinder🎠: A @UCLA_DMA Mid Residency Exhibition by Elliot Bear Yu ⌨️ Uncover a strange new lexicon in this eccentric, typing-based, rougelike game.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

4 months ago

Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and game designer Shing Yin Khor @sawdustbear visited the UCLA Game Lab and led a keepsake games workshop. We prototyped short keepsake games that ask players to become makers, crafting a tangible narrative object as they play.

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

5 months ago

Tomorrow: Experience LAYERS UPON LAYERS: A @UCLA_DMA Mid Residency Exhibition by Aidan Strong

UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

5 months ago

💌You're invited to: 🌌LAYERS UPON LAYERS: A @UCLA_DMA Mid Residency Exhibition by Aidan Strong @Str0nkyK0ng ✨OPENING RECEPTION: February 10, 2026 5:30PM–8:30PM Broad Art Center, EDA (Room 1250) 240 Charles E. Young Dr.

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aidan strong @Str0nkyK0ng

5 months ago

My mid-residency show LAYERS UPON LAYERS, opens in two weeks! Through decimation, and recreation, players create towering spires across a simulated landscape. Strata lines formed from memory, unfaltering spires built on the ruins of the last 🪏 dma.ucla.edu/events/layers-…

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UCLA Game Lab @uclagames

5 months ago

An eroded item loses its singularity. It leaves a collection of loose fragments and particulates, with each piece only holding partial memories of its beginning. What do we see in the collections of these particles?