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06/09/2026

Game Design at Arcade released today on on for free. Download today and help us make it better

06/09/2026

Hello World: We've released Game Design at WVU Arcade on Early Access on Steam for FREE! It was made by over 30 WVU students and MRG community members. We'd like to invite you to check it out and give us feedback over the summer so we can make it better next school year. Thanks!

A 3d arcade game in which you fix and play the machines in your store to get ready for opening day. All games are created by students and alumni from Game Design and Interactive Media at West Virginia University.

05/13/2026

Support local game makers

Next Pittsburgh Playtest is Sunday May 17th! This month we'll be hosted at Carnegie Mellon University! Come play game prototypes by local designers.

We have room for 3 more designers and we always welcome more playtesters. Bring a friend and come play!
Signup at http://pittsburghplaytest.com

A few more updates:
In July we'll be back at Ruckus Cafe!
In October, Pittsburgh Playtest will be collaborating with the Meaningful Play conference to host our monthly playtest on Tuesday evening of the conference (October 13th)

04/26/2026

Thank you everyone for coming and supporting this year's showcase! It was great to see your developments since last time and meet new devs. We hope you all had fun!

04/25/2026

Not all game designers work/play on the screen. Playtest work in progress physical games as well today, starting at 1 pm. There will also be several indie game devs with completed games ready to purchase! Support locally made 🎲 games 🎲 This work in progress game is "Masquerade Murder" by student Jasper Roberts.

04/24/2026

Thank you to our sponsors!

04/24/2026

We wanted to thank our Bronze-Tier Sponsor for our Spring Indie Showcase: Design Thinking Games! 🦇You can pre-purchase Tim's upcoming competitive vampire board game Thirst! on Kickstarter right now! 🦇Tim will be bringing a show copy of Thirst! this year to demo at our showcase alongside his competitive dungeon sprawling game, Your Move Hero!

Browse his podcast and other projects here:
https://www.designthinkinggames.com/

Pre Purchase Tim's Game here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/designthinkinggames/thirst-3/

Tim helped us greatly in the past year with our ongoing collaboration for local playtesting events in Morgantown. His support, generosity, and enthusiasm for the game design community in West Virginia is immense and it is his help in organizing these events that has kept us going for as long as we have.

11/10/2025

Heading to Baltimore on Saturday for conference with members of our capstone class that have been working on and . We'll be hosting a talk on alternative studio structures at 12:00 pm!