ESC Games is a company that I first learned about after 2017's Playcrafting Bit Awards. The afterparty was hosted in a small Manhattan location and featured several original multiplayer titles…
August 26, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Sumer is a title that holds a dear place in my heart for neatly combining tabletop games and video games into one fun package. It first debuted on Kickstarter in 2016 before eventually making its way…
August 26, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
Play NYC 2018 had over a hundred developers and nearly twice as many games. Rupie was a company that I was particularly keen on talking to, if only for the fact that they apparently sponsored fifteen…
August 25, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
It's been two-and-a-half years since I first wrote about Galactose: Pastries In Space, an upcoming space combat game where the forces of dinner and dessert clash in gigantic stellar battles. In that…
August 23, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
I first met Saturday Morning Games developer James Seetal at Play NYC 2017 where he was showing off his game at a tiny, dark table in Manhattan's Terminal 5. It seemed like an interesting premise,…
August 23, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Like most Americans, I had my fair share of "Chinese food" growing up. Granted, a lot of it is wildly different than what you'd actually see in Asia, but it was still pretty good. It was only until…
August 22, 2018 | 01:30 EDT
Origin of Storms was one of a handful of fighting games at Play NYC 2018. I checked it out on Sunday morning, winning a decent victory against a random attendee of the convention. The game seemed…
August 18, 2018 | 05:00 EDT
I was walking down an aisle at Play NYC when I suddenly found myself kidnapped by Playful People indie game studio and sitting down at a table with a phone placed in front of me. Despite my protests…
August 17, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
On the second day of Play NYC, I was up on the second-floor balcony checking out the dozens of games jam-packed into one tiny area. One particular exhibitor saw that I had finished another fighting…
August 16, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
Tucked away on the third floor of the Manhattan Center was Haiduc, a card game created by Haiduc LLC where players are trying to build a backstory for their character. The word "haiduc" is Romanian…
August 16, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Play NYC has come and gone yet again. The second year of this Manhattan-based gaming convention created by Playcrafting's Dan Butchko had a lot of changes including a new venue (the Hammerstein…
August 15, 2018 | 02:30 EDT
The Worst Grim Reaper is a game developed by Moon Moon Moon that I was certainly interested in checking out at Play NYC 2018. The game is simply the tale of the grim reaper Sebastian and his sapient…
August 15, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
The second-ever Play NYC had six "Graffiti Games" on display in the opera boxes of the Manhattan Center. Each of these games was created by immigrant developers and specially commissioned as an…
August 13, 2018 | 08:00 EDT
Amongst the sea of games showcased at Play NYC, Razbury Games From Rust is perhaps the biggest tone shift from a previous work. Razbury Games is known for the unique RPG Vidar, a dark tale about…
August 13, 2018 | 05:21 EDT
Play NYC, a gaming convention run by Playcrafting with a strong focus on indie games, will be happening on the weekend of August 11-12, 2018, in New York City's Manhattan borough. New York City has…
August 6, 2018 | 07:57 EDT
The world of gaming conventions grows ever larger, and for the longest time there was a distinct void in the New York City area. Despite being a major city on the east coast, New York really hasn't…
July 26, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Playcrafting, an organization that focuses on game developer education and networking, is having the Winter Play Expo 2018 tonight in Manhattan according to a tweet from the organization. Taking…
February 6, 2018 | 01:00 EST
It is just past 1:00 PM in the Microsoft Technology Center near Times Square in Manhattan. Playcrafting (partnered with Microsoft) is in the end stages of the Global Game Jam 2018, an event where…
January 29, 2018 | 01:00 EST
Playcrafting & Microsoft have partnered up yet again to bring the Global Game Jam 2018 to Manhattan in Times Square according to a press release. The Global Game Jam is a worldwide event where…
January 25, 2018 | 10:30 EST
The 2017 Bit Awards have wrapped up! Here's our post-event coverage of the event which we talked about earlier on Friday. The awards show opened with a short monologue by Ruffin Prentis which was…
December 16, 2017 | 09:30 EST
Playcrafting's 2017 Bit Awards are taking place tonight! The Bit Awards are a New York-based award show run by Playcrafting, a growing organization that helps game makers grow their skills through a…
December 15, 2017 | 04:54 EST
The 2017 Bit Awards, an awards show produced by Playcrafting in partnership with the Parsons School of Design, has announced their nominees for this year as shown on their website. The end of the…
November 15, 2017 | 08:30 EST
I had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Play NYC convention in New York City. Taking place in Manhattan, it was Playcrafting's first attempt at running a large convention—and boy, did they pull…
August 23, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Early in my career at TechRaptor, I searched for gaming events in the New York City area and boy was I coming up short. There was no equivalent of PAX, GDC, or E3 to be seen anywhere in Manhattan or…
July 25, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Last year, I sat down to have a chat with a pair of developers who were working on a simple title with a concept that I found personally interesting. That game is Awkward Date, a co-op platformer…
July 22, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Playcrafting and the International Game Developers Association are joining forces to bring discounts to IGDA members according to a press release. Playcrafting is a New York-based organization that…
July 14, 2017 | 08:20 EDT
Playcrafting, an organization focused on teaching game development skills and providing networking opportunities for developers, has announced the launch of a new gaming convention by the name of…
May 4, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
I had the pleasure of attending Playcrafting's Spring Play 2017 Expo on Thursday. Like the many Playcrafting events I had been to before, I saw developers and attendees of all stripes uniting in…
April 30, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Playcrafting's Spring Play Expo will be taking place on April 27, 2017 at the Microsoft Building at 11 Times Square in Manhattan. Playcrafting is an organization dedicated to bringing game…
April 20, 2017 | 06:00 EDT
On March 23rd, New York City’s own Playcrafting hosted their Women in Games themed night of Demo & Play in honor of Women's History Month. Featuring a plethora of developers and industry…
March 30, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
Just over a year ago, I attended my first Playcrafting expo. Playcrafting is an organization that seeks to remove barriers in game design through making the material more accessible. I met a lot of…
December 17, 2016 | 11:00 EST
"Cupcake fighters in giant space battles." That's how I would describe Galactose: Pastries In Space by Zero Eden Games. And that, in all honesty, is what got me interested in talking to developer…
February 17, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Heartcatchers, a two player bluffing card game, has launched a Kickstarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZ9Cy3tkK8 Heartcatchers was designed by Emma Larkins (who was interviewed…
January 28, 2016 | 03:45 EST
After Playcrafting's Fall Expo closed out, I found myself at the unofficial after party a few blocks away. One of the people I had the pleasure of speaking with was Dylan Cohen.Dylan was showcasing…
January 21, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Glenn Orzepowski is one of the people I ended up missing at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. Thankfully, I was able to follow up with him after the fact.A lot of the attendees at Playcrafting's Fall Expo…
January 6, 2016 | 09:00 EST
I had a blast at Playcrafting's Fall Expo, a game developer event in New York City that gave developers of all shapes and sizes the opportunity to show off their games. Nearly 75 video and board game…
December 23, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I was standing outside the afterparty of Playcrafting's Fall Expo smoking a cigarette and looking around to see if there were any devs I had missed. I saw two men standing next to an awful lot of…
December 21, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I met a lot of wonderful people at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. One of the first people I spoke with—the first person I saw through the door, in fact—was a lovely woman named Emma Larkins. Emma was…
December 17, 2015 | 09:00 EST
One of the fine people I met at Playcrafting's Fall Expo was Matt Schell of Mirror Fish Media. Mr. Schell was showing off a project titled Monarch Black (formerly titled Pollen). My interest in the…
November 16, 2015 | 09:00 EST
It all started with a GIF of a gigantic frog terrifying a crowd of people in a high rise building.I was at Playcrafting's Fall Expo. I was on a mission to find out more about the game behind the GIF…
November 12, 2015 | 11:00 EST
When I first started writing for TechRaptor at the beginning of 2015, I was keen on attending any interesting gaming events in my area. When I heard about a game developer expo that was going to have…
November 3, 2015 | 01:00 EST
In the middle of October I had the pleasure of attending Playcrafting's Fall Expo. Dozens of video and board game developers were getting together in Microsoft's Times Square location in order to…
November 2, 2015 | 01:00 EST