Funded by the NSF, Microsoft, Yahoo, Bell Labs, and more
Welcome to the Game Innovation Lab at the NYU School of Engineering, where we’ve been encouraging creativity and teamwork, and building innovative and playful experiences for our students, faculty, and visitors since 2011.
News
First-of-its-Kind Competition for Minecraft to Probe the Creative Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Check out our write-up about our GDMC Competition. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-of-its-kind-competition-for-minecraft-to-probe-the-creative-potential-of-artificial-intelligence-300656527.html Read More…
Generative Design in Minecraft
Do you like Minecraft and procedural content generation? Did you look at the villages in Minecraft and thought, I could write a better algorithm to produce settlements? Now is your chance to prove it. We… Read More…
MIT Technology Review: AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games
Game-making algorithms are almost as old as video games, but their use has typically been limited to generating terrain and other simple digital art. The next frontier is using increasingly sophisticated machine-learning techniques to design… Read More…
Events
Keep up with the events happening in the Game Innovation Lab
GDMC Competition Submission Deadline
June 30Do you like Minecraft and procedural content generation? Did you look at the villages in Minecraft and thought, I could write a better algorithm to produce settlements? Now is your chance to prove it. Read More…
Quick Facts
We are:
Designed to allow for both fluid, collaborative thinking and easy, fluid movement of surfaces and workstations
Home to interdisciplinary research and teaching
What is this
place?
place?
GIL is an interdisciplinary graduate research lab. Our funded projects take games and turn them into an innovation challenge. We work with industry partners, research facilities internationally, the NYC Board of Education and other groups,… Read More…
How can I
Participate?
Participate?
If you have a project that could be a good fit the for Lab’s research mission, drop us a line at GameInnovationLab@nyu.edu, and we’ll get back to you with next steps. If you are a… Read More…
Information for
Visitors
Visitors
We periodically host tours and research demos, as well as present a popular series of Indie Tech Talks and other game-related workshops. Stay tuned for information about our upcoming events Read More…