Tonight: Play the latest titles out of the NYU Game Center incubator

Tonight, the NYU Game Center is holding a showcase for its incubator participants. There will be seven games in all, and attendees will have the chance to test them out. The participating developers will also be on hand to talk about the process of creating their games.
The showcase will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight at the NYU Game Center at MetroTech. It’s free to attend.

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The games on display cut across quite a few genres, as we noted in our previous roundup of this year’s incubator participants. There’s Epitaph, a tactical game in which players navigate a team of Grim Reapers to gain control of the afterlife.

Excited to be showing @epitaph_game at the @NYUGameCenter Incubator Showcase tomorrow. https://t.co/XhVJAO7sWz

— Wyatt Yeong (@kroftee) September 8, 2016

Then there’s Botolo, cryptically described as “an abstract, competitive mind dance for two players.” From this video, it appears to be a spin on digital pinball, although the movements are controlled in part by artificial intelligence.
One of the games, interestingly enough, isn’t digital. Rewordable is a card game in which players arrange letter sequences into words of increasing length. Including an analog game is just one first for the incubator. This year’s cohort also includes developers from outside NYU. Both of these developments come as a result of the $450,000 grant the NYU Game Center received from the state agency Empire State Development earlier this year.