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heart.exe: A Valentine's Gaming and Crafting Arcade

Poster titled “heart.exe” with pixelated white hearts on a pink and blue retro video game–inspired background. Subtitle reads “a videogame + craft arcade.” The poster invites people to celebrate Valentine’s Day with coding, crafting, and video games exploring different forms of love, including first romance, lifelong companionship, and unusual relationships like dating a refrigerator. Attendees can make interactive love poems through a coding workshop or craft stickers, collages, and embroidery. The event is open to all, with no prior experience required. It takes place February 13th from 3–5 pm at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, Hornbake 0301 (ground floor). Logos for Narraspace XR, AADHum, MITH, and Soft Souls Foundry appear at the bottom. The design features pastel pink and blue colors, pixel art icons, and playful gaming imagery.
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How do you make a game about love?

heart.exe is a videogame and craft arcade that explores love not just as story, but as something you can play, build, and craft. Featuring a curated selection of digital games, the gaming arcade invites you to experience love in its many forms: first dates, lifelong companionship, fleeting encounters, and even a date with your refrigerator, all through interactive media.

Alongside the arcade, you can create your own interactive love poems in a beginner-friendly coding workshop, or unwind with hands-on crafts including stickers, collages, and embroidery. Whether digital or analog, each activity offers a different way of expressing feeling through making.

Come with a date, friends, or on your own. No prior experience with games, coding, or crafting is required. heart.exe is open to anyone curious about love, play, and creative expression.

Location: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Hornbake 0301

Time: February 13th, 3–5 pm

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Hornbake Library

4130 Campus Drive College Park, MD 20740

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Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities

0301 Hornbake Library

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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

For access needs, accommodations, and questions, please contact Himadri Agarwal at

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