UCLA Game Lab » Workshop

Henrik Söderström: Demons in the Machine Generative Art Workshop

Utilizing generative art tools, this workshop crafts eerie narratives and otherworldly realms inspired by horror fiction and the supernatural.

Marx Madness: Netrunner Tournament

M.M. here, sending a message from Gamelab HQ to let all you runners out there know of the hottest job this side of Angel City.

Carlin Wing: A Ball-Making Workshop

Come join Carlin Wing in a Ball-Making Workshop! Learn about the history of ball construction and MAKE your own physical and virtual balls!

Potluck and Playtest

POTLUCK / PLAYTEST, a hybrid event, bring an analog or digital game that you are working on as well as a food dish to share for the potluck!

Toby Do: Local Level Design Workshop

Local level design is a practice of level design setup in opposition to AAA level design methods and procedural level design.

Dorf Club

Dwarf Fortress is an incredibly deep fantasy world simulation where you help guide a group of dwarves to build a thriving city

Music Engine Ensemble

John Brumley will bring some instruments. You'll learn how to play them, change the sounds to make them your own, and even how to dismantle and modify them.

Yeah! Music! Workshop

A three-part music workshop led by Jenna Caravello, Michael Luo, and Hua Chai. This workshop will introduce participants to some methods and processes for producing music.

Controller Workshop with Ariel Uzal

Ariel Uzal will lead a physical workshop on making custom controllers for your games.

Hacking Your First RPG

We’ll introduce ways of making characters and do some worldbuilding, in the end, you’ll be well on your way to making a one-page roleplaying game.

A RUN THROUGH THE DARK WEB with Tim Schwartz

A cyberpunk dive into the corners of the dark web.

Nonsense Way of Thinking:
A Workshop with Maywa Denki

A workshop led by Maywa Denki, a Japanese company and artists’ collective that specializes in making self-described “nonsense” consumer products and musical instruments.

Zbrush Workshop with Sara Drake

Beginners welcome!

Nathalie Lawhead: Alternative Technologies for Building Weird Games

She creates playable experiences, interactive art, and online experiments, blurring the line between games and art.

Noa Kaplan: Photogrammetry Workshop

Learn the emerging practice of scanning real-life objects into digital 3D files.

Dan Klitsner: Watch the Player Not the Game

A workshop on animating humans with gameplay.

The Great Success Machine Workshop

The Great Success Machine adapts the format of an artist-oriented career building workshop turned group therapy.

Net Positive 2

Build your own networked multiplayer games in Unity

Angela Washko: Choreographing Interventions in Multi-User Online Environments

Game developer, performance artist, and interventionist Angela Washko lead participants in exercises that asked them to reconsider virtual environments as distinctive contexts for performance and intervention.

Net Positive

Build your own networked multiplayer games in Unity

Blast Theory: Streaming and Interaction Workshop

A hands-on live gaming performance workshop for our students lead by Ju Row Farr of Blast Theory.

Jeremy Bailey: AR Bodybuilding

Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey lead a workshop on Augmented Reality that transformed participants into unicorns.

Aram Bartholl: Texturegrammetry Workshop

Live Handmade Texture Generation For Minecraft

Auriea Harvey: Photogrammetry Workshop

In addition to her artist talk, Auriea Harvey ran a photogrammetry workshop during her week with us at the Game Lab.

Cyberpunk Fashion Show

Game Lab members designed, sewed, built, and makeupped their cyberpunk alter egos in just one weekend!

RE4DY-2-W4RE: Modeling & Modeling

A workshop and collaborative artwork where participants receive a crash course in 3D modeling with Blender and create their own collection of semi-humanoid fashion.