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About The Program
The Game Design program trains students to create great games using digital tools. Its focus is on teaching students the art of interactive storytelling and adventure creation found in games. The program is delivered via distance learning over the Internet.
The Game Design program brings game design school to students by using powerful Internet-based distance learning technologies. Using the Internet, students interact with their mentors and classmates, create games and share their work online.
The Game Design program is built around standards for non-violent and non-sexual gaming. While its design principles apply to any platform, the program concentrates on personal computer-based games.
Anticipated Audience
The Game Design Program is for intrepid and independent self-starters who desire a career helping others have fun. It appeals to those who desire to create their own games and share them online.
The Game Design Program is an ideal match for institutions devoted to the media arts, filmmaking, television and art instruction.
Video Games Emerge
Video games have become a force in the entertainment world. Long the purview of a few companies who designed violent games for a young male market, the game industry is emerging as an interactive entertainment force.
As the game industry as evolved, so have its games. Far beyond the “shooter,” “cockpit” and “adventure” style games of old, new games involving strategy, interactivity and storytelling have moved to the epicenter of gaming.
Students who know how to create great games using digital technology will have unlimited opportunities.
The Gamer Generation
Sociologists have begun to observe the way games influence players’ behaviors and expectations outside the realm of entertainment. Many have concluded that the sense of pacing, automation, and rich interactivity will influence the “Gamer Generation” far beyond the reach of video games.
Students who learn, now, how to create engaging and entertaining games will also learn fundamental concepts that will benefit them later, when the “Gamer Generation’s” influence is felt in every area of society and life.
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