Game Design
专业介绍
The NYU Game Center MFA is a 2-year Master of Fine Arts degree in Game Design. Located within NYU’s famous Tisch School of the Arts, we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other forms of art, media, and culture. Our students study the design and development of games in a context of advanced critical literacy, becoming game designers and developers, artists and curators, critics and scholars.
Our curriculum includes classes in the following areas:
- Game Design – the fundamentals of how games work and how to create meaningful interactive experiences on and off the computer.
- Game Production – oriented towards the creation of digital games, such as our Code Lab series of game programming courses.
- Game Studies – critical theory and scholarship around the idea of games as a form of designed human culture.
- Game History – including our foundational Games 101 class, which traces the history of games from ancient boardgames to today’s video games.
- Studio Courses – where the emphasis is on the collaborative group creation of digital games.
- Thesis – the focus of the program’s second year, where students work alone or in groups on a project of their choosing.
- Play Labs – classes that take a deeper dive into the play of a particular game genre or designer’s work – such as indie tabletop RPGs or tournament Starcraft play.
- Electives – a wide range of classes that explore everything from games journalism the psychology and emotions of game play.