TIMES SQUARE ARTS: GAME DESIGN

New media, engineering, and game artists from NYU Media and Games Network and Times Square Arts presented PlayTimesSquared, a festival of physical and social games infused with technology.

We explored the challenges of creating games for a multilingual, multicultural audience in a crowded public space, devising simple instructions while keeping the games intriguing and compelling. Taking into account the unique aspects of Times Square as well as the issue of games for a global audience, they created eight playful, live-action games with different levels of difficulty and interactivity.These games came to the Broadway pedestrian plazas. With objectives as simple as trying to collect high-fives or as complex as navigating the NYC subway system, employees, residents and visitors let off steam this summer by escaping into a ‘playground’.

Read our New York Times feauture here.
Read about us in Time Out NYC here.
Read full descriptions of our games here.