Game designer programs offer courses spanning all aspects of the design process, including designing levels and writing plots. Expect to see variations of the following fundamental and major ...

A game design master’s prepares students for successful long-term careers in a thriving and competitive industry. A master’s program requires at least 30 credits for completion, ...

Having almost made a game doesn't help you become a game designer. Start out with the determination to see your first game ...

To learn a little about what it’s like to be a game designer, we spoke with Steve Bowler of Phosphor Games. Steve has been working in various entertainment fields for twenty years and is now ...

As games become seemingly omnipresent, as entertainment and content for brands too, the V&A appointment recognises the role of great games and games designers in the UK, both past and present. Game ...

Game design is very difficult to assess from the outside, to understand what role you think it would play in your team and whether it would be a fit. Some thoughts on how to approach it.

By Bob Colayco Design by Randall Montanari. dmit it. The thought has crossed your mind while playing a game at some point. Maybe it was a terrible game you rented at the video store, and you ...

Most game design constants are to do with the psychology of play, how players think and see, but they need to be separated out to be discussed meaningfully. Ditto ideas to do with “the audience ...

That idea of the game designer as an assessor of the value of the idea for the specific project, rather than their role as a creator, is highly compelling.

Finally, I attended the N.Y.U. Game Center, where I earned an M.F.A. in game design, making a ton of games with different game designers, artists and institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At 23 years old, Sophia George is now a resident of the world’s biggest art and design museum, the V&A in London. In some ways it seems a strange match. The museum is 162 years old, and houses ...