Customize Your Game Designing Program
Match your passion for video game designing with a creative career - discover a Game Design and Development degree that lets you customize your experience to your interests and goals. Earn the artistic, business and technological skills you need to make an impact in the booming video game design industry while learning how to create the games you want to play. This game designing program stresses multidisciplinary, hands-on course work. Those seeking a career in game designing in SNHU's BA/BS in Game Design and Development program have the flexibility to shape their degree by selecting a concentration that meets their interest and earn it entirely online.
Choose between the Bachelor of Science program, with a game design business focus, and the Bachelor of Arts program, which is more oriented toward creative development and execution. Depending on the degree path you follow, you will focus your video game design education with one of four concentrations:
- Interactive Storytelling and Supporting Arts (BA/BS)
- Game Development and Supporting Technologies (BA/BS)
- Psychology and Marketing of Games (BA/BS)
- Game Production and the Business of Gaming (BS only).
Whichever area you focus on, our game designing program offers a strong foundation in information technology, with courses exploring areas such as artificial intelligence, 3-D virtual environments, animation and digital multimedia. This ensures you will graduate with a well-rounded educational experience and skill set that you can use to break into a worldwide industry with sales topping $68 billion a year.
Additional Advantages of our College Game Design and Development Program
- One of the most affordable game designing programs in New England
- Take courses online, or in a combination of online and face-to face at one of our regional campuses
- Small classes enable plenty of interaction with classmates and teachers
- Curriculum based on recommendations of the International Game Developers Association, the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving professionals who create video games
- Accomplished faculty with strong academic credentials and applicable real-world experience
- Regional accreditation
- A respected, not-for-profit, U.S. News & World Report Tier 1 university
Founded in 1932, Southern New Hampshire University is an accredited, private, coeducational institution with a main campus in Manchester, N.H., and satellite campuses in Portsmouth, Salem and Nashua, N.H., and Brunswick, Maine. Our online programs, offered since 1996, have won several awards, including Best of Business and Best Buy.