I Dream of Greed
Explore the mysterious house at night. The different characters can destroy different things.
ConComs
ConComs is a game where you play as a former art student who is currently trying to pay off her student loans through commission-based drawings during her time at an art convention.
Slot Waste
Slot Waste is an experimental video game installation that articulates a lengthy, absurdist Rube Goldberg-like production process.
QUETIAPINE
An experimental 2D/3D simulation exploring trauma, memory and the dreams caused by the antipsychotic QUETIAPINE.
Ghost Roommate
A narrative game about the ghosts of memory and emotional suppression.
A Photo Studio
Change backgrounds and styles, move around the space, and take pictures of everyone you can.
Microcondo
Inform the different resident microorganisms of a now deceased person that they are now evicted.
Super Power Hour V8
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
Farm to Slaughter
A polemical game of competing factory owners in the chicken industry.
Spare Time
An asymmetric, polemical game about competing for test scores and optimizing an overwhelming schedule in a competitive Chinese boarding school
YOU-TI
A polemical game about UCLA students trying to study as they struggle with accessing treatment for UTI's at the Ashe Student Health Center.
Can You See Me?
A polemical,competitive board game exploring the balance between privacy and exposure in a surveillance-driven society
One Must Imagine
An immersive, interactive experience that draws inspiration from philosophical works of Camus and Sarte.
Recruitment Hell
Talk through recruiters and the company's AI assistant to try and get your resume to the CEO at the top!
Heathers Croquet Simulator
A high stakes match of croquet inspired by the cult classic film and musical Heathers.
synonym for a circle
Synonym for a Circle is an interactive virtual reality experience that simulates a circle dance through user interaction with a kinetic sculpture.
The worst creature in the world
A short interactive experience about being a horse and trying to find god in a hole in the desert after getting banished from horse society.
Super Power Hour V7
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
The Seafood Section
Go on a date with a fish from your job at the supermarket fish counter.
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
A hand drawn game that explores streams of consciousness that occur while you're about to fall asleep.
Tear Shaped Door
Tear Shaped Door is an interactive game installation in which players can lick a boot clean. The fastest lick is recorded and displayed on the secondary screen.
As Above As Below
An interactive animation exploring the Western idea of the human body and its relation to cleanliness, holiness, and purity as well as filth, waste, and "impurities."
Grandpa
An interactive animation that dives into an imagination of the artist's Grandpa's life and their shared memories through security cameras.
HAUS(23)
Try and escape the eerie house you are trapped in.
If caring becomes owning, and owning becomes tiring
Examine systems of care in video games that feed on attachment and ownership.
untitled Tr@sh Pr0j3cT (0505)
You are a wandering trash collector sailing down a murky river in your humble boat.
Maybe Love!
"Maybe Love! is a narrative game featuring three mini arcade games. It follows a hopeless romantic's journey into a new relationship.
SUNKEN GARDEN 5 TO 9
Rack up points, or don't, they don't matter. Create meaning/make predictions/divine for the un-sunken-above. This is your garden, sink in as far as you want.
Cyberside Picnic
Cyberside Picnic is a eulogy for the cyberian commonplace that just eluded us.
We 3
A narrative game set in northeastern rural China. Delve into the lives of three characters and uncover interconnected stories.
The Labyrinth
Connect all ten trees in a labyrinth with a red string.
All there is
ALL THERE IS inserts play into these professionalized environments and calls into question the alienated labor associated with computer graphics and computer simulation.
Utopia
A point-and-click interactive animation dealing with videogame addiction.
You Don’t Understand
A polemical game about deteriorating relationships with parents after coming out
Freedom Town
A polemical game where you and your teammates try not die traversing inadequate pedestrian infrastructure without a car
HarperPenguinSchusterHouse
A polemical game where struggling writers attempt to pitch novels that appeal to the indiscernible whims of a publishing conglomerate
r/degenerates
A Polemical game where players take on the role of misogynistic male users on a online forum arguing for what makes the perfect woman.
Super Power Hour V6
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
Famished
A journey of undergoing treatment for eating disorders, focusing on anorexia and orthorexia.
Flow
Bloom and Beware: Strategize to Safeguard Your Flowers in this Grid-Based Garden Game!
Eat Ur Words
A cute and blunt educational game where you must spell a four letter word.
Super Power Hour V5
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
Corporate Software Simulator
Corporate Software Simulator is a text based simulation of the life of a Corporate Software Engineer.
Aftermath
Aftermath is an polemical game that immerses players in a journey of coping with a spinal cord injury stemming from an incident of gun violence
Clean Enough
Explore the Depths of a Depression Room
Queer Leap
Queer Leap is a thematically and mechanically queer 3d platform game inspired by the quantum leap phenomenon.
Super Power Hour V4
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
MY EASY SHAKER YOKE FACE
Inspect the things, put the things together and maybe make a thing-face.
Viewfinder
Viewfinder is a game about going for a walk in the woods and taking some photos
Mud Room
I’m slowly turning my family into a dungeon. Mud Room is a peek into a room in that dungeon.
Space Echo
Space Echo is a multiplayer VR installation about how humans and artificial intelligence perceive the world and how they interact with their own kind and with each other.
Museum of Mediocre Appropriations
With the ongoing pandemic of NFTs and GameFi navigate through the space of media arts with financial farmer and his kid.
First Youth
First Youth is a conversational board game deeply influenced by life and relationships.
Hollow
A VR Project, explore a fallen civilization swept away when metal fuses with flesh.
Oil Refinery
A VR World combining a queered construction of a toxic space with voice overs from the artist's mother about her 30 years working in an oil refinery.
Dora’s Firefly
A story about loss & found of inner peace after trauma.
Droid City
Droid City is just a small playground you can roam around in, interact with the robots, or just admire the world.
Release
Release is an experimental virtual reality stop motion project that allows a user to enter a being from another dimension's body for the price of helping them collect worms to feed their family.
The Managed Heart
In the Managed Heart, you must navigate your emotional state, exercise restraint, and manage their exertion.
In The Doghouse
Shep, Po, Dobie, Collie, and the last-minute roommate Hedgar the hedgehog-human must live civilly until the lease is up!
US.
A game about a piece of decaying but fresh memory.
Long Way to Remember
A narrative game where players explore old recollections from the perspective of an Alzheimer patient to draw attention to this underrepresented group.
Marinated Guide To Game Making
A marinated guide to game-making to help those in need.
Fantastic STIs 2022 From 18 To 81
Fantastic STIs 2022 From 18 to 81 is a game about sex education, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and other STIs, which is a topic rarely discussed in games.
Faking Devil’s Advocate
Faking Devil's Advocate is a multiplayer game about the tension created when an individual opposes the community's opinion and the pressure on the minority.
Press W to Move Forward
Press W to Move Forward is a 5-minute experimental horror game exploring the rhetorics of progress, control, and societal pressure.
Grandma’s Ocean
3 women in 3 different time periods. Their generation connection cycles through different political influences, carrying love, trauma, and tattered ideas of home.
Welcome to the Freak Show
Beat the insecurities by conquering your fears.
We’re all Drunk here
This is a game about how drinking does not solve any problems and so you try to sober up to win.
Obelisk
Obelisks are made from stacks of stones. Obelisks are markers of territories where tribute must be paid to enter.
Rules for the Construction
of the Roleplaying Games
Many of the structures of RPGs are derived from wargames, and this military origin can serve as a foundation for interrogating the practice of designing RPGs
A Modern Wargame
Should civilians be present in Donetsk Verdansk? Should players have access to killstreaks, like Predator UAVs or white phosphorus?
Night Running 夜奔
Night Running is a video game about softness, hardness, opaqueness, transparency, sex, violence, love, hate, confusion, and misinterpretation.
UserID
** Warning: Strobing images, mild body horror ** userID is a puzzle game and narrative exploration of identity.
A Mother’s Chinese New Year
A mother’s Chinese New Year is a visual novel game where you play as a woman that tries to satisfy her family during Chinese New Year.
Digital Vessel Class
Final Project Reel
A selection of final projects from DESMA 172: Designing Avatars Class.
DIGITAL VESSEL CLASS
Performing Body Project Reel
A selection of avatar filters from DESMA 172: Designing Avatars Class.
Don’t fear the reaper
Play as an old man who suffers from memory loss and travels back in time to relive moments of his life.
A.R. Dream Carnival
A.R. Dream Carnival is about a small fantasy world for playing around to touch the 2d objects and add the color with your assigned color.
Terraforming
Role-play as a foreigner in the alien world, who reflects on our relationship with the outer world and other races.
For A Love I Can’t Express
“if the train goes at the speed of light…does everything we carry upon just fly into space?” — Alice Zheng
Lost in the Underbelly
Lost in the Underbelly is an interactive memory bank of fragmented, personal memories.
Cut & Fold Strategy Games
A collection of tabletop strategy games created for DESMA 157 Game Design Workshop in Spring 2021.
Panopticon V1
You are a bot traveling through an alternate reality internet simulation. The world you defined as home, made up of 0’s and 1’s, has become physical reality.
Cut
Cut explores how automobiles have shaped American infrastructure and the culture, and how major corporations have changed the perception of cars in today's world.
Past Era
Past Era focuses on the visualization of outdated information in the virtual world by offering the “old version” of digital technologies.
Myth VR
Myth VR is a speculative mythological experience inspired by Chinese folklore and tradition, sacred architecture, and digital bodies.
Looking for Ace
Beni and Ace are two peas in a pod - wherever Beni goes, Ace follows. They are tragically separated after a terrible storm hits.
Velocity Holomatrix Warp 7
VHW7 is an hour-long interactive explorable digital environment that is reacting in real-time to an improvised score.
Six-Page Dungeons
A Compendium of Virtual Tabletop Roleplaying Games created for the DESMA 157 Game Design Workshop in Fall 2020 at UCLA.
Addiction Center
cw: intense brainwashing, electroshock therapy, and physical abuses
Days Dark
Days Dark is set in rural China, the game is inspired by the Scar Literature rooted in contemporary Chinese history.
AIRWAVES
Airwaves is a text-based puzzle game about a family in China working as a telegraph & communications operator for over a century.
The Magic Cabinet
Save the missing Death Princess!
is this a dream…
Guide your character through a strange an unknown world.
Pointless Mindscape
An experience for people who fall into the limbo of nostalgia and have trouble moving on.
Corona Time
"I miss my friends terribly during the quarantine and want to visit them. So I made this game to roam around in."
Fly
What better way to socially distance than becoming a fly and chatting on rotting food?
Garden of Eden
Digital representation starts and ends with superficiality.
Hybrid Spaces and other objects
Hybrid Spaces and other objects explores video games as an art form, revealing potential interpretations and solutions by reinterpreting visual arts through play theories.
Intimacy
It is a two-player game that tries to simulate the intimate relationship between human interactions.
Journey of fulfillment/futility & dreams/destruction & stereotypes/(trouble)shooting
Your mission now, if you choose to accept And you must accept because this is a linear path There is no escape You are now in hero mode
Pigxell
A pig trades furniture with the player in exchange for images of the player's body.
Little by Little by Little
You’re a depressed twenty-something trying to stay on top of your work.
The Return
To preserve a world where nothing you’ve seen is worth preserving.
Super Power Hour V3
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
All My Confusing Pets: A Mixed Reality Performance
Tolva and the Useful Balloon Cult present A Mixed Reality Performance
Groom
A game installation that centers on an insect with wings who cannot fly.
Wanna be my friend?
Wanna be my friend? is a 3-4 player tabletop game that explores the simultaneous joy and fear in making new friends.
Due Tomorrow, Do Tomorrow
Try to finish your assignment 24 hours before it is due!
Silicon Valley
In Silicon Valley, you play as a worker trying to climb up the positions to become a CEO at startup companies.
Cure
Players take on the role of different workers in a corrupted hospital that is heavily involved in black market organ trades.
Everyone In Their Right Place
Play as a ghost of a damaged teenager trying to navigate his way through all of his traumatizing memories.
Nightmare Temptation Academy
18+ NSFW: Contains disturbing violent & sexual content. Nightmare Temptation Academy is a dating-simulation/choose your own adventure/roleplaying game that is also a Rap Musical.
trace
trace is a board game about virtual identity theft.
Hikikomori: Hideaway
An escape room representing the psychological state of a Hikikomori.
Viral
Trigger Warning: graphic sexual violence, cultural appropriation, scat, bestiality, feminism, patriarchy, sexualization of school shooters, inconsistent use of fonts... 18+ NSFW
i
A social media network that consists of only the user.
Game Design…The Game(?)
Game Design...The Game(?) is a game about making games.
(tuple)
Stretching beyond your comfort zone.
It’s Not You, It’s Me
Navigate a budding romance as it changes how you see the world, for better or for worse.
Bayt Beaut: House of All Houses
a virtual reality game that immerses the player into a Middle Eastern household.
Idyll
A farming and friendship game about 19th century American folklore and Romantic Individualism.
Fly the Friendly Sky
Endure the long and painful experience of an international flight.
OK to Ship
Through the lens of airport security, this familiar yet bizarre art installation examines the prevalence of power, control, and authoritarianism.
Project Hand Cannon
Leap motion controls turn a shoot 'em up style game into an asymmetrical masterpiece.
Mleko a Miód
Mleko a Miód is an RPG based on Jewish and Central/Eastern European folklore and late 19th century Jewish life that uses magic as a key element.
Henderson High
Relive high school.
Blithedale
A game about groups and conflict.
Adventures to Knova
Earth's queen has sent Mila on a mission to kill the queen of a rival planet.
Clay Box
Serve as a monitoring agent for the Busan Metropolitan Police Agency.
That Guy
Go and do some stuff.
Clay Mate
Play as a clay blob that sticks to every clay object it touches.
Incognito
Explore without falling into the void.
The Void
You are one of the last survivors of humanity. The remaining country, AK Corp., has sent you and other citizens as adventurers on a mission to retrieve what is known as “technology.”
Lava
A volcano has erupted, sending lava across the path of four hikers racing to reach a single-occupant safe house at the end of the trail.
Chicken Coop
Battle with Jet Engine chicken, Hypnotist chicken, Magnet chicken, and more.
Loom
Loom is a game in which the act of weaving and buying are juxtaposed in order to explore the economic and social tensions found between consuming and producing clothing in a capitalist economy.
Mirror
Mirror is a game exploring personal issues with self-esteem and self-criticism.
Horse Game: A Friend You Can Ride On
Aided by a magic pocket mirror, players must guide their trusty and adorable pink steed, portrayed by game designer Nick Crockett, through both in-game city streets and the real-life Hammer Museum courtyard.
Escape From Spiderhead
ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD is a card game based on a short story of the same name by George Saunders.
Hormonal-28
Finding the correct type of birth control for you.
Game Prostheses
A collection of six game prostheses designed to be worn by an LG VS840 4G LTE phone.
Artifacts II
Artifacts II is a digital-fantasy based on a true story about adapting to and developing in an environment of emotional abuse and isolation.
Sumo Weight-In
Two would-be sumos race to gain the most weight.
Recorder Recital Ruckus
Recorder Recital Ruckus puts you in the role of making sure your students behave themselves during a recorder recital with one twist - all of your students are soon-to-be-famous sound artists.
Space Dander
Players inhabit the Herms, creatures of light that guide the evening star Hesper across the astral plane to the Perpetual.
Mnemosyne
Mnemosyne [nee-mos-uh-nee] - the goddess of memory.
Ivan’s Parallel Reality
Ivan’s Parallel Reality is a demo of a narrative game exploring an art making factory in a hypothetical future.
Ex Nihilo
Using the HTC Vive players can freely run and climb to explore the peculiar chain of floating islands that fill this detailed, living and breathing world.
Vespers
Vespers as a game explores the Catholic view of Purgatory through the lense of an Elizabethan-era Everyman play.
Anima
Viewers can walk around at their own pace and listen to the environment. The overall mood is meditative, encouraging the participant to take their time and relax.
Empty Dreams
Empty Dreams is a a narrative experience about finding oneself in which the player explores a world of consciousness and memories.
Town 404
Just like the 404 web page, you can’t find town 404, whether on a map, a license plate, or a list of cities to which express can be delivered.
GateWay
Gateway is an exploration platformer game/walking simulator taking place across multiple worlds.
Laika
Laika is a game about the Soviet space dog Laika. It explores the ethics of sending animals into space without their consent.
Pixel | Antipixel
Source footage from the 2D arcade game Battle Garegga is rendered as a 3D volume by slicing up the original footage and then layering it on top of itself dozens of times.
Best Burger
Attempt to predict burger trends and barter with your fellow farmers to create the trendiest burger possible.
There’s Horse Meat In The Meatball Soup!!!
A grave mistake has happened at the racetrack - the expected-to-win horse somehow ended up in the meat grinder!
Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror is a study on the effect of a flow state on audiences as well as in artists.
Hot Air / Breath Bank
Two players/performers inflate the shared balloon within the box.
Incognito Mode
Incognito Mode is an Alternate Reality Game parodying the battle between hackers, governments and corporations.
Face Exercise Machine
—“Not only your body needs exercise, your face does too!”—
Regurgitating
Regurgitating tells the story of a flower's infinite reproductive cycle.
Moshambo
A new take on the classic game of roshambo, Moshambo is a fast-paced dueler that exchanges the original elements of chance for temporal tactics as players lunge, morph, and retreat until their hands inevitably clash.
南京！南京！
南京！is a game in which the players attempt to deduce one another’s identities against the backdrop of Nanking in 1937.
Plastic Vortex
Plastic Vortex is based on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a mass of human-made debris caught in the swirling gyres of the North Pacific Ocean. The first animal to cross the vortex without choking on plastic wins.
Tubes
Tubes simulates the unbalanced nature of the Internet by modeling its physical infrastructure.
Gecko Ridemption
Gecko Ridemption is a browser-based, online-multiplayer area-control, rock-climbing, laser-blasting, stuff-barfing, sport-ish game.
Savvy Chopper
The first team to airdrop 3 hats on George Costanza wins.
Holla Pain Yo
Holla' Pain Yo is a competitive game in which two teams lighten a seesaw by drinking jalapeño water through a tube.
Letting them Sleep
Letting them Sleep is a game about unnoticed representation in which players use a character creation system to make an avatar that immediately goes to sleep. The most undisturbed sleeper wins.
Artifacts
Artifacts is an exploratory artgame about digital archeology, archives, and the language of the internet.
Phantasm Atlas
Phantasm Atlas is an interactive video installation re-imagining our bodily anatomy.
Mess.life
Messlife is a virtual DIY artspace in the tradition of warehouse art spaces and alternative venues.
Bonny Doom
Hillary's house has just burned down.
UM TV PALS
Multiplayer garden rocketry action for 2-10 players.
Rotato Chipz
A little game inspired by Clu Clu Land and Power Stone Wars. The graphics are photographs of found objects and wadded up paper sculptures.
Junk
"Junk" is game based on William S. Burrough's essay "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" that compares drug use to capitalism.
One Day, Independence Day
One Day, Independence Day! is a four-player game that chronicles events and figures from Korea, just after the country's division into North and South.
Real Shadows Shine
Real Shadows Shine is a minimum involvement experience about growing, slowing, shade, and blindly moving onward
Whisk’ry Business
Whiskr'y Business is a game in which you must change the sweater patterns of three hapless humans to match the cats which they occasionally pet.
Pug Fitness
Guide your poor obese pug to fitness by regulating his meals and maximizing his exercise time.
Software Etc.
Software Etc. is a virtual shopping mall and chatbot ecosystem.
[Project Iron]
[Project Iron] combines gameplay-driven interactivity with a richly detailed and expressive hand-drawn illustrations.
Ddook Ddak Kimbap!
Two teams attempt to build a spring roll by stealing ingredients out from underneath the Dokkaebi's tentacles.
.45
45 is a 1 vs. 1 board game that uses lasers and mirrors.
Make America Great Again
Make America Great Again is an asymmetrical polemical board game based on Donald Trump’s views on immigration
Ring For Spring
It's senior year of college and graduation is quickly approaching, leaving young women with two options: get hired or get engaged.
Pursuit
Shit happens, so we might as well help each other. Meet you at the summit. This is the pursuit.
I’m So Glad You Came
Players use a lifecasted, penis-shaped, sperm-shooting joystick in order to move a matching penis on screen and fertilize objects.
F You, I’m Happy With Me: A Game About Selfies and Self-Love
There is no “respectable” selfie that a woman can post without opening herself up to slut shaming, accusations of conceit, insults about her appearance and character, and more.
Flow
Flow is a game about city management and water distribution.
Cupertino
As Cupertino rapidly becomes known as “the city where Apple is”, longtime residents must work together to stay in the city they call home.
Food Trucks
Put your culinary skills to the test and battle sandwiches in a tournament-style miniature monster truck rally
Sandswitch
Sandswitch is a game about food culture, sandwich building, and theft.
One cup of juice
One cup of juice is a game that converts a two person human relationship into an orange juicing machine.
Wizard Takes All
Wizard Takes All is a live computer game performance that pits a mob of farmers against a wizard in possession of boundless audiovisual powers.
Juggle
Juggle is a minimal arcade game inspired by early video games that maps digital space to physical space.
Pope Burn
Pope Burn is a game about the representation and interpretation of politics through print media in 17th Century England.
Alexander Doggus
Alexander Doggus is a wheelchair-using dog who used to be the world’s greatest show dog.
The Hive
The Hive is a world based on sound.
2222
The year is 2222. Earth has frozen over and there are no survivors.
Long Reliever
This game could go on forever.
Cos-Mo Cap Astrodrome America
An Omnidimensional Countergravitational Live System for Hyperterrestrial Synthesized Telecomputational Motion Capture.
Le Petit Architecte
Le Petit Architecte is an open-ended architectural competition.
TL;DR [the shape of the internet (Orgy)]
TL;DR [the shape of the internet (Orgy)] is an immersive interactive installation that explores the concept of free play.
Unity Wireframe Shader
Transform your game into the 80′s cyber-punk extravaganza.
Bananoculus
This work explores the relationship between acquired synesthesia, simulation sickness and life as a banana.
Pin Pon
Pin Pon is a game about online dating. Using a leap motion controller, players try to bounce stuff off their part of the table and into the opponents. Its always a match!
Arrangement
“Arrangement” simulates matchmaking by asking potential partners to draw identical drawings through verbal guidance alone.
Sumorals
“Sumorals” is a four-player board game about sumo wrestling and placing bets, where the rich get richer and the fat get fatter.
Will I get measles at Disneyland?
In “Will I Get Measles At Disneyland?”, you play as a determined mom guiding her children through a measles-infested theme park.
Locals Only!
Locals Only! is a game about surf localism and catching sweet waves.
Hex
A complex strategy game that tests your ability to build bridges (and tear them down).
Ship
A redesign of chess that takes place on a mutinous ship.
Big Pond Small Pond
Players learn what it feels like to be a big fish in a small pond - and vice versa.
Guattari Hero
Guattari Hero is an experimental economic rhythm simulation of consumer experience through Amazon.com's related item feature.
Sneaky Cactus
A pain-inducing stealth-racing game for two.
Apoptosis
Apoptosis is a video game about a lot of things, but mostly about mental illness.
Nuclear Family
A game of Cold War strategy.
LDOE
Last Day on Earth is about the world ending.
Outcast
Outcast is a game that addresses the issue of dehumanization of homeless people.
THEM
A multi-media puzzle game to uncover the plot for a New World Order.
Do you see what I see?
A game of phone calls, privacy and surveillance.
Primal nest
Primal Nest is an experimental 3D video game where the viewer can navigate the virtual landscape through an inter-vaginal perspective.
Orthogonal/Diagonal
Installation of regional redesigned chess variants, with new game pieces developed that sculpturally convey their rules of movement and relative power on the board.
Word Shift
Shift letters around the board to form words that cascade off and reveal new letters.
The Iron Range
A game of labor, globalization, and mining set in the Iron Range of northern Minnesota.
Space “Invader”
Space "Invader" is a polemical video that parodies the classical Space Invaders game but with a colonial narrative.
Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag was created an experimental project in the area of gaming.
Mom Actually
Balance love and weight as you try to raise your children in the modern world.
Eco War
Play as nature or corporations - control or die!
SUPER TAP-OUT SAGA
Wrestle your friends and break your tablet.
Public Restroom Simulator 3000
A polemical game about the often ignored normalized dichotomous space of public restrooms.
Space
Control full or halftime operators for a directional and diplomatic twist on checkers.
Angry Words
Create or destroy words to control the city of Bolinas!
Button Burgers
Craft burgers made from buttons!
Out
A game of self-discovery, courage, fear, faith, love, expression, and triumph.
Joe Wurzelbacher: Defender of the American Dream
Shred Sochi powder and defend America's athletes from terror.
UCLA Game Lab Arcade Backpack Blueprints
Step-by-step instructions for building your own Game Lab Arcade Backpack.
Classroom Aquatic
Classroom Aquatic is the world's first stealth/trivia game for the Oculus Rift.
Ephemeroptera
You are Cu, the captain of the newest model of mobile aerial combat weaponry EXO. With the help of Fin, you are to defeat the System.
Black Friday
Battle for gifts and yuletide glory in a gruesome Christmas-shopping spectacle.
Mind Asylum
Use a Wiimote to control one of three personalities of a schizophrenic man with multiple personality disorder.
Decibel
A trading card game about the inherent shallow nature of popular dance music.
FOB
Reconstruct your self identity as a non-native U.S. citizen.
Paper Sons
Attempt to immigrate to the United States through Angel Island.
Puff
Puff follows the journey of different kinds of smokers as they trade the items and tools necessary to feed their cigarette habits.
Find My iPhone
Find your iPhone after attending the Oscars.
Masako
A virtual reality environment highlighting the atrocities of nuclear weaponry.
Food Insecurity
Play as a low-income individual balancing money, health, and dependence while trying to meet your daily caloric requirements.
(M)eat
This is a game about meat and the ever-conflicting information regarding whether or not humans should be eating animals.
UCLA Game Lab Cocktail Cabinets
FEATURING GLASS TOPS OVER SCREENS AND CUSTOM CONTROLLERS, THE ARCADE COCKTAIL CABINETS HAVE BECOME SOME OF THE MOST SHOWN OBJECTS CREATED BY THE GAME LAB.
RUNRUNRUN: RACE TO THE BOTTOM
How long can you keep running in circles?
ALL TERRAIN DERBY
Prepare for the all-new All Terrain Derby!
Unity Mesh Creator
A tool made to create simple meshes from image textures based on transparency.
Tedium
Navigate the American school system as an Asian-American student
Money Making Workshop
A Zero Sum game of physical and mental acuity
Real Women Have Hair
The lengths women go to meet social expectation
Fromage à Trois
A magic cart opens a portal to an alien sky on your ceiling. Save the falling cheese beings!
Beat Down
Beat Down is a two player head slapping game.
Anonymity takes the Vanilla out of Sex
A social experiment, a game, and a party.
Super Power Hour V2
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
Perfect Woman
Be as perfect as possible!
COSMICAT CRUNCHIES
A bullet hell eat-em-up you can play with your face.
Binary Gallows
electromechanical hangman
The SLAB
A custom game controller for Mark Essen's NIDHOGG
Objectif
An attractive game for attractive people.
UCLA Game Lab Arcade Backpack
The ultimately portable arcade machine designed to be worn as a backpack
PACWARS
Pacwars is a four player, team-based board game based on Chess and Pacman.
Typical LIFE of Typical IRANIANS
TLTI is a board game designed to describe and address socio-political problems of post-revolution Iran.
Ascension
Race to ascend to the rank of god.
Cryptoid Blues
Your typical 8 foot 7 elusive male yeti.
OBJECTIF
The Most Attractive Card Game
Propheteers
A GAME OF FAITH, MONEY, AND POWER.
Leshy
A vertical platformer with trees.
Off Rail Rescue
An explosion in the neighboring boom-town has set their buildings ablaze! What's more, its destroyed the only railway out of ton and sent flaming tumbleweeds sky high!
Exit Palette
A puzzle-platform game based on RYB subtractive color theory.
Poliphony
After landing on a strange but peaceful planet you learn that your are equipped with the tools to talk to the creatures residing there...
THREE KINGDOMS
The oldest player takes the weapons bag and gently scatters the contents over the board.
Settlers of the Darke Trail
Create safe passage for the settlers as their world is consumed by darkness.
DONKEY KONG TOWER BOMB
The tower was built in such a way that it is extremely dangerous for more than three intruders to ascend the tower.
Los Angeles Loves You
You are a sad, sad commuter in the city of LA, trying to get to work on a Monday (or Tuesday, or Wednesday...whatever.)
Rodeo Rodeo Rodeo
Players steer their horse by tilting the board while holding onto the horns
Tickleplane
Tickleplane is a game for 6 people that uses the keyboard as a gestural input.
Super Power Hour
Students create their own superhero characters with wildly different abilities
Goldstation
Survival of the fittest & progress to the right.
Talk Therapy
A physical/electromechanical dogfight game for two players
Video Games: The State of the Field
A discussion with Steve Mamber, Peter Lunenfeld, and Eddo Stern.
Modular Arcade Cabinet
An arcade cabinet supporting interchangeable screen and controls
DS Bluetooth
Enable your Nintendo DS to communicate with countless other devices via Bluetooth.
hidden in plain sight
a meditation on the nature of computer programming.
Sparkfun Hangman
Two versions of hangman, one using a dial and one using colors and switches.
Marksmanship Training
A video game performance using “the official U.S. Army game,” America’s Army.
Everything I Do is Art, But Nothing I Do Makes Any Difference, Part II
The gallery as a first-person shooter level.
Catstroke
Stroke the cats, but not too much.
Kubisch
Kubisch is an innovative 3-dimensional twist on tic-tac-toe.
Animal Golf
Golf...with animals.
Burn and Turn
Capture the princesses and defend your tower - available on several mobile platforms!
Exodus
Piece by piece, change the huge gray city to a small, colorful town.
Subsidized
Stay healthy and wealthy in the subsidized agricultural market longer than your opponents.
CommComm
This 2-vs-1 game takes players through various storylines, culminating in a battle between two ghosts and their murderer.
Puppy
A two-player game of things getting awkward fast.
Escape from Spiderhead
Players must use various experimental drugs to build up the willpower necessary to sacrifice themselves and save their peers.
Binary Hangman
Players enter their letter guesses in binary form.
Steampunk Hangman
Players use a grid system to guess the word.
Escape from Sea Oak
Strategize your job, risks, and alliances in order to escape your humble surroundings and make it to the good life.
Bangman S&M Euro Rave
Hangman for masochists
Darkgame
A sensory deprivation game in which players must manage their senses and abilities to destroy or evade their opponents.
Death Guess
A less convenient form of analog hangman.
En Gore
En Gore is a two player turn-based strategy game testing speed and dexterity using the concepts of foil fencing.
Warcrack for the Hordes: Why Warcraft Pwns the World
The paradoxical combinations of WOW.
Negotiating Transitional Spaces in Classic Games
Analyzing the structure of transitional spaces, from Donkey Kong's blank screens to Zelda’s interactive Hyrule Field.
Jabberwocky
Play through five interconnected levels of Lewis Carroll's poem, getting new perspective on the world with each level.
Scatter
A three player cooperative game. Players must work together to escape an increasingly haunted house before it turns them against each other.
Rabbit Kingdom
A four player competitive game. Players controls both above-ground humans and below-ground rabbits to inflict insanity on the other players.
Trek to Tessalit
A 2 to 4 player competitive game. Players must beat their opponents to the center of the board by managing both their health and morality levels.
Monkey Soup
A monkey must navigate through a hostile environment with the help of a robot built from pieces of his spaceship.
Cosmic Cardinal Catching
Catch enough cardinals to get the monkey's spaceship airborne again.
Tube Monkey
Help the monkey avoid distractions and find his spaceship in the center of the planet.
Roulette
Play Russian Roulette against Brandon with a six-barreled revolver.
Knights of Cydonia
Help the riders fight off the baddies and protect their stagecoach full of gold.
American Boy
Protect Estelle's shadow from the harsh city lights
Tealeaf Dancer
Keep yourself illuminated by following the pulsing light.
Material Girl
Flog and flirt with your crowds of suitors to make all the money you can.
Binary Glove
The binary glove teaches concepts of binary sequences and bits in a fun and engaging way.
Body Hack
An interactive game performance system where users match their bodies to iconic poses in pop culture.
Cave
The player controls a boy and a girl, one at a time, as they explore a cave.
The Thrill of Combat
The Thrill of Combat is a two player game of organ harvesting.
Flatland ARG!!!
Flatland ARG!!! is a team based augmented reality game with costumes, props, Nokia tablets, spy balloons, physical stamina, and strategy.
DEITI II
Detonate all the angry deities by arranging chain reactions.
Blinky-Chanty Box
A multiplayer game for cooperative meditative chanting. It uses custom pitch detection software to compare the pitch-based distance between two microphones.
Corporate Ladder
Corporate Ladder is a strategic game of stacking blocks for 4 to 6 players. The object of the game is to take up the most space.
Battle
Two machines take turns trying to guess each other's next guess. Neither side ever knows if it won, only if they lost.
Rhythm Game
A sight-reading music game using overhead projection and the Arduino controller to create an immersive interface
Hull Loss
Participants make paper airplanes and launch them through a series of mechanically animated scissors.
Gemini Rue
Gemini Rue: a retro, neo-noir, full length, point ‘n click, dual-narrative adventure.
Best Flamewar Ever
an online flameware about the fantasy game Everquest
