Game Art and Animation offers students an opportunity to master visual arts and animation within the game medium. The program focuses on developing the depth of knowledge required to be successful in a highly competitive industry.

Focusing on the creative side of game development, the BFA in Game Design aims to transform students into critical makers with the ability to create high-quality, innovative, and expressive games, playful experiences, and artifacts across a broad array of media and contexts.

The Game Design and Music combined major with a concentration in Music Technology prepares students to manage all aspects of music and sound design integral to the creative process in Game Design. Students focus on the digital sound technologies, audiovisual integration techniques and collaborative skills, grounded in real-world experience, that are necessary to apply one’s musical imagination effectively in a game design environment. Also emphasized are the aesthetic, expressive, psychological and social perspectives essential to meaningful engagement across a broad range of applications in the game industry.

Students will engage in building and developing games and playable media experiences while completing courses in computer science and specialized game technology and design.

The Game Art Minor offers students to become immersed in the study and practice of the visual arts and animation within the game medium. Students are afforded the opportunity to think critically and work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to produce art and animation assets that are critical to the success of projects in the game medium.

The game design minor allows students in other areas of study to become familiarized with the basics of game design.

Focusing on innovation, societal impact and player-centric design, students in the Graduate Certificate in Game Experience Design get hands-on experience in designing games under the guidance of world leading faculty and industry experts in game design.

The Graduate Certificate in Game Science offers students an opportunity to obtain the ability to analyze player experiences with new state-of-the-art methods and techniques, such as game analytics and biometrics, as well as more traditional ones, such as interviews and surveys. Students get hands-on experience with these methods and techniques under the guidance of world leading faculty and industry experts in game science.

Focusing on the science of game development, students have an opportunity to learn the design and technological skills needed to build a game and develop a deep understanding of playability and analytics that make products successful in an increasingly competitive marketplace.