Very excited to be doing this! Come if you can!

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.

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 🎮

🎮 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—no experience needed.
💥 Online OR in-person @ UCLA
✅ 4 UC credits
✅ Portfolio-ready work
✅ Final exhibition
Apply now: si.games.ucla.edu

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.

Thank you to Alyssa Kollgaard, COO of @akuparagames.bsky.social Games (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.

🎮 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

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

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

My games workshops do not usually feature this many puppets, but you can always request a puppet show-and-tell to accompany your games workshops! Thank you, @uclagames.bsky.social , I had an absolute blast!!!

Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and game designer Shing Yin Khor @shing.bsky.social 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.

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

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?

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

You’re invited to Stone Mill Grinder🎠: A UCLA DMA Mid Residency Exhibition for Elliot Bear Yu ⌨️ Uncover a strange new lexicon in this eccentric, typing-based, rougelike game. 🕹️

Opening:
Tuesday, 01.20.26
5:30 – 8:30 PM

Location:
EDA Graduate Gallery
UCLA Broad Art Center, Room 1250

You are invited to the ucla_dma Undergraduate Winter Exhibition 2026: ACID REFLUX ⚡️
An exhibition exploring cycles of destruction, rebirth, and transformation in an era of ecological and technological upheaval.🗓 Opening: Jan 15, 5–8pm
📅 Jan 15–29
📍 New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center, UCLA

Apply today to the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. A space for artists and game makers pushing new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games. Apply now to develop games as an expressive and experimental practice.
Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🎮 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa

Applications are now open for the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA, home to the UCLA Game Lab. The Game Lab brings together artists and game makers working across disciplines to explore new forms, systems, and ways of thinking through games.
📆 Deadline: January 4, 2026
🔗 dma.ucla.edu/programs/mfa

Applications are open for UCLA’s MFA in Design Media Arts. A rigorous 3-year program exploring media, technology, and games with world-renowned faculty, funding opportunities, 24/7 studio access, and fabrication labs. Deadline Jan 4, 2026.
Learn more: mfa.dma.ucla.edu

October 23rd is the last day to see UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort, at the New Wight Gallery from 10am-5pm!

Address:
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095

More info: uncommoningress.cargo.site

Come out to the opening of UNCOMMON INGRESS tomorrow, Oct. 16th from 5pm to 8pm at the New Wight Gallery!

Address:
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456

For more info visit: uncommoningress.cargo.site

The Game Lab’s own David O’Grady shares his expertise in Episode 2: “Stick It to ’Em,” from Hidden Levels, a new @wbur.org podcast by Endless Thread and @99pi.org exploring how video games have reshaped our world. This episode dives into the evolution of the joystick!🕹️ www.wbur.org/endlessthrea...

Game Lab faculty & UCLA DMA
professor Sahej Rahal speaks with @killscreendotcom.bsky.social
about game engines serving as spaces for collective intelligence. Drawing from Indian philosophical traditions, his practice spans sculpture, performance & simulation. www.killscreen.com/sahej-rahals...

You’re invited to UNCOMMON INGRESS, an exhibit by the UCLA Design Media Arts MFA 2026 cohort.
📍 New Wight Gallery, UCLA
🗓 Opening: Thurs Oct 16, 5–8 PM | Runs Oct 16–23
🍷 Free + open to the public, with food & drinks.

Seek refuge via uncommon ingress.
👁️ uncommoningress.cargo.site