Funded by the NSF, Microsoft, Yahoo, Bell Labs, and more
Welcome to the Game Innovation Lab at NYU’s 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.
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
Events
Keep up with the events happening in the Game Innovation Lab
Accelerometers, How Do They F*cking Work?
December 12 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMSpeaker: Douglas Wilson Absract: In 2009-10 Douglas Wilson worked on a failed, motion-controlled Wii game about dueling wizards. In this talk, he'll share the tech and design lessons he learned along the way –… Read More…
Press
GIL in the News
Night Games brings people together within an interactive musical game environment to collaborate in an act of co-creation through rhythm and dance. This interactive musical environment inspires players to interact with a rich fantasy… Read More…
This was the second year the Game Innovation Lab opened it's doors for the World Science Fair's Innovation Square. Hundreds of guests visited our research space and got to play with the software we've been… Read More…
"Industry veteran Dona Bailey paid a visit to NYU-Poly's Game Innovation Lab recently to talk about her experience in Atari's coin-op division in the early 1980s, where she co-developed Centipede along with Ed Logg… Read More…
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 games@poly.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…