In this issue:

What's on | Highlights of upcoming events.

Chapter Events | Meetups, talks, and other events we're hosting.

#NYMakesGames News | Game launches and other updates from local creators.

Around Town | A community calendar of events from across the city.

Jobs & Opportunities | The latest posts from our notice boards.

IGDA Resources | Discounts and other benefits for IGDA members.

Chapter Resources | Where to go for more info.

Call for Speakers

Are you an industry professional with something to share? IGDA NYC is looking for speakers for our IGDA NYC Talks series. We're interested in presentations on all topics related to game development including development, design, art, music, game marketing and more. For the foreseeable future, we'll be hosting the events live on our Discord server and streaming them on both our local IGDA YouTube and the main IGDA Twitch channel. Please submit a short bio and a synopsis of your presentation, along with links to videos (if available) to nyc@igda.org.

What's on this month

IGDA NYC Open Forum (Feb 25th) - Stop by our Discord to chat, network, show off your games, or ask our team any questions about the chapter!

And finally...

We are also still on the lookout for mods and community managers to help with our Discord. If you are interested, head over to the #ask-management channel on our Discord, or email nyc@igda.org.

Pocket Gamer Connect (Feb 9th) - IGDA members can visit the IGDA Discount page to access a 20% off discount on tickets.

View all upcoming IGDA NYC events on Eventbrite.

IGDA NYC Monday Afternoon Co-Working on Discord

IGDA NYC Discord

Every Monday, 1pm - 4pm

Come join us at our new regular co-working hours on our Discord channel!

We’ll be working camera optional/mic off on the Events Voice Channel. But our new Lounge Channel will be right next door for anyone who wants to show off what they’re working on, ask some questions, or just hang out.

IGDA NYC BYO Ice Cream Social

IGDA NYC Discord

Tuesday, February 9th, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET

We won't be hosting live Ice Cream Socials for a while. Instead, feel free to grab a pint or a cuppa and hang out with fellow game devs on our Discord!

Whether it's just to chat, get some feedback or show off a project, come and spend some time catching up in an informal weekend setting.

Share your NY game news here or tweet #NYMakesGames.
Section Editor: Mattia Sicuro

Making Waves

• Speaker submissions and game nominations for the 2021 Games 4 Change Awards are open!
• The 2021 Games 4 Change Student Challenge competition is officially open for submissions! Students across the country can now submit their original social impact games and compete to win awesome prizes
• Check out this interview with Milena Correa, who makes puzzles for the New York Times!
• NYU Game Center’s Virtual Playtest Thursday is back! Sign up here to get feedback on your current project.

Launched

• Colo-Mitolo-Gital is an anthology made by Kevin Cadena that reinterprets family stories with Colombian history and culture.

Early Access

• Close Call - An action racing game with expensive cars, high stakes and extreme tactics in an explosive motorsport fantasy!

Crowdfunding

• Chaosbringer: Harbinger of Change - A story-driven RPG world full of chaos and adventure that evolves as you play it

• Mirastell: Escape Among the Stars - A 2D Action-RPG with a unique flavor of turn-based combat, set on a mysterious, abandoned space cruise liner.

• Tesla Science Race: The Board Game - Compete to collect Tesla's inventions, build his famous coil, meet challenges, and learn about his bizarre life in this tabletop adventure (with optional smartphone version).

• Enchanted New York: The Game - A live game where 100 players make 7 magical objects and bring them to 7 Manhattan locations, competing to find a lost Tarot card

   

Unless otherwise noted, events are (probably!) free to attend. Follow @GameDevNYC for event alerts. Contact nyc@igda.org to add your org's events.
 

NYVR - Art In VR - The NYVR Meetup in partnership with the National Arts Club will be hosting the 4th Annual Art In VR event. For the first time, the event will be held completely in virtual reality and will feature professional digital artists showing off their latest immersive artwork.

Saturday, February 6th

G4C Student Challenge National Game Jam: Advocating for Animals (NYC, ATL, DET) - Open to middle and high school students, participants will learn to prototype games with guidance from professional game designers and topic experts that focus on the importance of being responsible animal advocates!

Tuesday, February 9th

IGDA NYC BYO Ice Cream Social on Discord 6:30 – 8:30pm ET - Whether it's just to chat, get some feedback or show off a project, come and spend some time catching up in an informal weekend setting. We'll be bringing our own ice cream and you can too!

Sunday, February 21st

Animation Nights New York Virtual Screening – ANNY is a monthly screening event and annual festival held in NYC that presents animated short films from around the world.

Tuesday, February 23rd

AWE Nite Online Meetup - Join for live AR demos, group conversation, member announcements and Networking!

Thursday, February 25th

IGDA NYC Open Forum on Discord - The Open Forum is a place for us to virtually gather and chat, network, show off our games, get feedback on our work, or ask IGDA NYC any questions about the chapter!

Saturday, February 27th

G4C Student Challenge National Game Jam: Advocating for Animals (National) - Open to middle and high school students, participants will learn to prototype games with guidance from professional game designers and topic experts that focus on the importance of being responsible animal advocates!

Recurring Weekly

Mondays 

• IGDA NYC Monday Afternoon Co-working on Discord 

• Nyeek Games' Nyeek Cloud Monday

Tuesdays

• Hack Manhattan Zoom Check-In

Wednesdays

• Volumetric Society of NYC Virtual Hardware Hack Lab

• Tabletop night at Wonderville (8pm)

Thursdays

• NYU Game Center Virtual Playtest Thursdays

• Hacker Hours Virtual Thursdays (1pm)

• Wonderville Workbench

Saturdays

• NYC-Playtest Tribeca Remote Playtesting

• Babycastles Visual Novel Acid Lounge (8pm)

• Babycastles Demon Hour (11pm)

Sundays

• Hacker Hours Virtual Sundays for programming help

• Ludology podcast

• Babycastles Academy (8pm)

View or submit a listing for free.
 

Jobs

• Unity Developer at DotDot

• Full Stack Developer at DotDot

• Admin assistant and game design intern openings at Move38

• Game Designer at Night School Studio

• Contractor - Senior Generalist Designer at CCP London

• Executive Assistant at Games For Change

• Game Design Director at Dots

Education

• ASAP! is looking for professional Game Designers, Developers, Artists and other disciplines to assist with guiding young students during this years Celebration of Young Game Designers program (Feb 26-28). Check out more info about the program here and contact us at nyc@igda.org if interested

Internships

• Spring Internships at EGD Collective

Volunteer

• EGD HQ is looking for volunteer staff!

Exhibit/Speak/Publish

• Submissions and nominations for the 2021 Games 4 Change Awards are open! Submit sessions and nominate games from the past year related to the future of social impact.

Benefits for IGDA members.

Join here. Log in for all member discount codes and details.

• Event discounts: IGDA members get a 20% discount to Digital Entertainment World Expo (Feb 8-12) and Pocket Gamer Connects (Feb 8), details on the IGDA discounts page

• Education discounts: 10% off all General Assembly classes and workshops. Browse NYC classes.

• Software discounts: 10% off Unity Pro or 25% off Unity Plus. Details. 20% off Buildbox. Details.

• IGDA Career Center: Job listings open to all; early access for members. Careers.igda.org

• IGDA Crowdfunding Collection: Member projects featured on Kickstarter. Submit.