UCLA Game Lab

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

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Join us tomorrow for the @UCLA_DMA MFA exhibition opening, Triple Point!

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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

[UCLA Game Lab @uclagames]

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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🎮 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: https://t.co/CR3GWPjstT

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For more information visit: https://t.co/4vY5fInAct

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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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We spoke with Evan Ibarra about QUETIAPINE, an experimental game about trauma, memory, and the complexities of psychiatric treatment.

Music by Luka Fisher
🎮 https://t.co/peCMxa4ZuF

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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.

https://t.co/99LcQT17fl

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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🕹️https://t.co/2rJHSnmw6G

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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: https://t.co/257XaKBpEx

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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.🫟 https://t.co/f2hkbHFeHQ

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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👾https://t.co/2rJHSnmw6G🎮

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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: https://t.co/c8rRylu8GS

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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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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.

[UCLA Game Lab @uclagames]

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🕹️https://t.co/2rJHSnmw6G

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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. ⏳👾🏜️