@uclagames

We are an experimental research & development lab that fosters the development of computer games and game-related research at UCLA.

 Los Angeles, CA
games.ucla.edu
Joined April 2010
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Join us tomorrow for the @UCLA_DMA MFA exhibition opening, Triple Point!
UCLA Game Lab@uclagamesOct 7
Join us for Triple Point, a @UCLA_DMA 2026 MFA Preview Show! Triple Point is where a substance’s solid, liquid, and gas phases all coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. All possibilities exist at once and movement in any direction is met with transformation.
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Join us for Triple Point, a @UCLA_DMA 2026 MFA Preview Show! Triple Point is where a substance’s solid, liquid, and gas phases all coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium. All possibilities exist at once and movement in any direction is met with transformation.
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October 15th ⟶ October 22nd Opening Reception: Thurs October 15th 2026, 5PM–8PM Performances Begin: 5:30PM Location: New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center 240 Charles E Young Drive N Los Angeles, CA 90095 Free & Open to the Public
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🎮 UCLA Game Lab Resident Xiner Lan’s Qilinic Games is featured in @killscreendotcom! The game transforms invented Olympic-style sports into twin-joystick arcade games that demand physical synchronization between both hands. 📖Read here: killscreen.com/xiner-lan-qil…
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🎮 UCLA Design Media Arts is launching a new Games B.A. in Fall 2027! Grounded in an arts-first philosophy, students will explore game design, development & game art across analog, digital, traditional & experimental forms. Applications are now open! 🕹️
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For more information visit: dma.ucla.edu/events/announce…
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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
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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/texture…

Texturetown is a Frankenstein's MMO created by remixing Club Penguin, Pirates of the Caribbean...

"The game resists total understanding": Texturetown is a free MMO made of bits of dead MMOs.

rockpapershotgun.com
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UCLA Game Lab@uclagamesMar 7
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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🎮 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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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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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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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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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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