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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
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 other characters. leaf-a.itch.io/displacemen
This is the final week to see CORPOREAL TECHNOLOGIES, the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 exhibition, before it closes May 28!
Work featured in video by: Xiner Lan and Sagan Yee
Poster by: Sadia Quddus
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 the Free University of Berlin. You don't want to miss this! More info: digital-subjectivities.de
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 Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.
🎮 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 ♟️Earn UC credits📚
Apply now!: si.games.ucla.edu
Very excited to be doing this! Come if you can!
UCLA Game Lab resident Aidan Strong @str0nkyk0ng.itch.io is featured in @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social for TEXTURETOWN, a Frankenstein's MMO stitched together from the remains of dead online worlds. www.rockpapershotgun.com/texturetown-...
TEXTURETOWN (@str0nkyk0ng.itch.io)
"TEXTURETOWN is an algorithmically remixed MMO created from assets of now-defunct mid-2000's children's MMOs. It uses the fabric of games themselves as media to collage."
Free - Windows: warpdoor.com/2026/06/03/t...
"The game resists total understanding": Texturetown is a free MMO made of bits of dead MMOs.
Join us Tuesday 4/28 at 5pm in the EDA to hear @pippinbarr.bsky.social 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.
Warp Door
"The game resists total understanding": Texturetown is a free MMO made of bits of dead MMOs.
