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Here are 7 Philly-made mobile games for your evening commute
Between SEPTA’s ongoing regional rail woes and the 50,000 guests we have in town this week during the Democratic National Convention, chances are your transit commute is going to take a bit longer than...
View ArticleThere’s a Pokéwalk through Philly to celebrate one month of Pokémon Go
In case you didn’t hear, Pokémon Go may be one of the few games that’s actually good for you. Now there’s something called PokéWalk Philly you might want to check out. On Aug. 6, from 6 p.m. to...
View ArticlePhilly Dev Night found a new home in Chinatown
After the Philly Game Forge closed, the city’s largest game developers meetup was left to wander local beer gardens and parks. Field Jam was a wonderful success! We are still on summer vacation but we...
View ArticleA Temple prof is archiving LGBTQ content in video games from the ’80s to now
Adrienne Shaw’s newest research initiative will never end. Or at least that’s what the Temple University assistant professor hopes. It’s called the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, and it’s a curated and...
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Here are 8 games coming to life at Philly Dev Night
After a brief stint wandering about the city for a place to host Philly Dev Night, the game developer meetup landed on an internet cafe in Chinatown called G-Team. There, burgeoning game developers...
View ArticleCould these accessibility-minded Drexel game designers inspire a worldwide...
A team of nine Drexel students has adapted the Paralympic sport goalball into a video game designed specifically for people who are blind or have visual impairments. The community-focused undergraduate...
View ArticleUm, 12,000 people came to Montco to play Minecraft and broke a world record
Two world records were broken this weekend at the suburban Greater Philadelphia Expo Center: an unlikely pairing of a Minecraft convention and a mass architecture lesson. Minefaire is a traveling...
View ArticleThis Philly dev built a ‘Minecraft’ party platform with his five kids
Philly-based developer Tony Mantoan, founder of Decorus Software, spent the last eight months building something called Minecraft Party Host. It’s an online platform that lets Minecraft players book...
View ArticleDonate gifts for kids and play locally made games at the Philly Dev Night...
Yes, Philly Game Forge is gone, but don’t count its annual toy drive out just yet: say hello to the Philly Dev Night Holiday Social V3. On Friday, Dec. 16, at the Microsoft Reactor Philadelphia, the...
View ArticleHelp game professor Frank Lee bring an alien invasion to Philadelphia
Drexel professors are hosting a workshop/community meeting to bring together the community’s creatives, leaders and entrepreneurs in an effort to bring H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds to the streets of...
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Here’s what it’s like to play alien invasion in Philadelphia
Artist, actors, app developers and game designers got together to brainstorm and test what a possible alien invasion might look like in the City of Brotherly Love during the War of the Worlds:...
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Did this Philly studio build the future of fighting games?
An hour after being laid off from his job in September 2013, Jed Henry had an idea: He was going to make a game about a ninja monkey. “I’d talk to people about it and they’d be like, ‘Really, Jed? You...
View ArticleThis charitable gaming competition wants to bring LAN parties back to life
RGB LAN is a three-day long PC gaming and charity event dedicated to the joy of good gaming and the power of gaming for good. From March 3-5, participants will get together at the Greater Philadelphia...
View ArticlePlay Cipher Prime’s latest game ‘Jawns’ for free before it’s too late
For the next couple of days, you’ll be able to play the latest videogame from Philly-based game dev shop Cipher Prime, aptly named Jawns. Feeling like a winner, wrapping up our @humblebundle build of...
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Let’s use tech to close the education gap, not widen it: Mimi Ito
Mimi Ito is challenging the common conception that games and social media detract from learning. At her talk late last month at the Academy of Natural Sciences, she spoke of her vision for technology...
View ArticleAn ambitious new game publisher might just keep Cipher Prime in Philadelphia
“We had a pretty bad last year between Dain [Saint] and myself. … We kind of just took a life hiatus, to be honest.” This was one of the first things Will Stallwood, co-founder and one half of local...
View ArticlePhilly Dev Night has a new home at Indy Hall
It was a strange time there for a while at Philly Dev Night after the closing of its habitual home, the Philly Game Forge. Just ask former organizers Will Stallwood and Dain Saint. Philly’s game devs...
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This Twitch streamer is playing a Philly-made game every day for April
Twitch, the video streaming platform that gamers in particular have found a home on, has been a place for all kinds of creators to find and interact with engaged audiences. Even YouTube’s biggest...
View Article8 Philly-made games to play on this Saturday’s International Tabletop Day
The region’s game design community isn’t all about video games — there’s actually a good number of tabletop and board game designers too. Fifteen of them are getting together this Saturday, April 29 at...
View ArticleWhat if you could instantly see visitor reactions when you explored the...
We know all about the empowering nature of open data and how it can serve more than just the tech community, so it’s always great to see that sort of attitude being shared across different communities....
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