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What happens when you make games faster than you can second-guess them? 100 Games Later: Athletic Aesthetics & Shitpost Mechanics is a class about speed, silliness, and survival through creative output. You’ll explore the aesthetics of rapid production—making games that are fun, unfun, weird, broken, personal, or pure shitpost—while learning about hobbyist game scenes like Glorious Trainwrecks and NewGrounds. Along the way, you'll experiment with engines like Construct 3, Ren’Py, RPG Maker, and Clickteam Fusion 2.5, and study genre tropes, platform histories, and the ethics of game design.
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Coding or game development experience is encouraged, but not required. If you’ve never made a game before, that’s perfect. If you have, this is your chance to unlearn perfectionism and try new tools, genres, and ideas.
You’ll use tools like Construct 3, Ren’Py, RPG Maker, and Clickteam Fusion 2.5, as well as free web-based platforms. A computer that can run these programs and stable internet access are necessary.
There will be plenty of time to work on projects during class. However, this class is scalable, meaning there will be material to explore outside of class such as readings, games, and out of class assignments.
This class may be for you if you:
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Blake Andrews is a game designer, illustrator, animator, and instructor living in New York. They have taught game design at both Bloomfield College and Pratt Institute. Since graduating from New York University’s Game Design MFA program, Blake has been involved with installations and events at Babycastles, Wonderville, and Red Parry. The Babycastles installation, Ribbit’s Frog World, involved several large indoor pits of mud.
Blake’s games are confrontational both mechanically and narratively. They frequently use a distinct low fidelity, crude, cartoon style. Their hundreds of small games are hosted on websites like Glorious Trainwrecks and itch.io.
Outside of digital games and art, Blake shows an enthusiasm for alternative controllers. One of their collaborations with Frank DeMarco, Scrapeboard, has the player scraping a real skateboard, without wheels, on metal pads in order to defeat enemies like Kool Man. Scrapeboard has been featured at alt.ctrl.gdc, a Puma release party, a LilyPichu video, and in The New Yorker.
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Applications open until Applications closed on August 3, 2025.
You can expect to hear back from us about the status of your application on August 19, 2025. Please email us at admissions@sfpc.study with any questions you have.
For 10 classes, it costs $1200 + processing fees, for a one-time payment. We also offer payment plans. Participants can schedule monthly payments of the same amount. First and last payments must be made before the start and end of class. *Processing fees apply for each payment.
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