Monthly 2 Hr GameJam Club: RPG Maker

At Wonderville, “RPG Maker” frames a live night around the DIY logic of the long-running console game series that let players build their own role-playing worlds. The title nods to the PlayStation-era tools that helped move amateur game-making into living rooms, and the show treats that history as a set of methods rather than nostalgia. Pseudo Slang, Paunch Collective, Skeeterdemilo, Shari Page, and Badharbor work in Hip-Hop/R&B and freer forms, trading structure for improvisation. It lands in New York’s ongoing conversation between games, music, and authored identity, though the most telling moments are the ones that leave the “maker” visible.