11/23/2021
By Stephanie Guyotte

Family Game Design Day - COME OUT AND GAME!

Innovation Hub Haverhill invites parents and kids to attend Family Game Design Day for a fun, free tabletop game making workshop!

Sign yourself and your child up today to attend a guided game making design workshop. No experience necessary and all materials will be supplied. Parents and kids will pair up to create original games through a series of creative exercises. Participants will have an opportunity to playtest their prototyped games with others…and meet new friends along the way!

Open to kids grades 3-6, parents encouraged to attend with child.

Saturday, Dec. 4
10 a.m. - noon
UMass Lowell Innovation Hub Haverhill, 2 Merrimack St., 3rd Floor, Haverhill

Participants will:

  • Brainstorm original game concepts
  • Be guided through a game design process
  • Learn about the different roles in a game design team
  • Create physical prototypes for their own tabletop game concepts
  • Playtest games with other participants
  • View demo of free tools to evolve game prototypes into interactive digital game

Workshops will be led by Emily Treat Czar, award winning game industry veteran and educator:

  • Director of Design and Usability at Carnegie Learning
  • Began career making learning toys at Leapfrog
  • Game Project Advisor at Carnegie Mellon for 3 yrs
  • Game Design Instructor for iHub Haverhill, New York Film Academy, Bunker Hill CC

Advance registration is required as space is limited!

To register, please email Stephanie_Guyotte@uml.edu or call 978-934-5560