ABOUT Game Design
Why should you study game design and why should you study the program in the United States? Here’re the reasons why:
Gaming Industry as one of the largest growing industries
Gaming industry has generated around $152 billion in revenue in the year of 2019, and the growth is unstoppable. (As comparison, in the Film industry, the global box office made a revenue of S41.1 billion in 2018.)
Microsoft says there are more than two billion gamers around the world, and they’re all a part of a rapidly growing global community.
The U.S. is now the World’s #1 Games Market
In 2019, the U.S. games market will generate $36.9 billion, overtaking China as the world’s largest gaming market by revenues. (Newzoo, 2019)
Home to the Top Game Companies
According to Newzoo, about 50% of the Top 15 Gaming Companies are headquartered in the United States:
- Tencent, China
- Sony, Japan
- Microsoft, US
- Apple, US
- Activism Blizzard, US
- Google, US
- NetEase, China
- EA, US
- Nintendom, Japan
- Bandai Namco, Japan
- TakeTwo Interaction, US
- Nexon, South Korea
- Ubisoft, France
- Netmarble, South Korea
- Warner Bros, US
Game industry as the next popular career
By 2022, experts forecast the gaming industry will produce $196 billion in revenue. It’s no wonder then that tech giants like Apple and Google are trying to cash in by launching gaming streaming services. (Business Insider, 2019)
In Malaysia, here is huge potential in the gaming industry. With the growth of the industry, Malaysians are also jumping on the virtual world’s bandwagon to kick-start their careers such as producer, designer, artist, animator, digital media developer, and multimedia and animation tool developer. (New Straits Time, 2019)
Feature University
University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Course: Bachelor of Science in Game
Est, Annual Tuition Fee: USD 33,262
Duration: 4 Years
The University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering Program is one of the top schools offering programs in game design at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is ranked as the #1 Public University in Games worldwide for undergraduate programs, and the #2 Public University in Games worldwide for graduate programs, according to The Princeton Review(2020).
EAE has a unique program that blends a breadth of games courses taught by award-winner educators, insight from industry veterans and significant team-based project work to ground classes in real-world practice. Their graduates land jobs at large, international companies like Activision/Blizzard, dynamic Utah studios like Wildworks, or start-ups that they found themselves, like Parallel Plaid.
DePaul University
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Course: Bachelor of Science in Games
Est, Annual Tuition Fee: USD 40,551
Duration: 4 Years
DePaul’s game design programs are nationally recognized. The Princeton Review ranked our undergraduate program #28 on its list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Schools to Study Game Design in 2018, and Animation Career Review ranked DePaul #7 nationally in their Top 50 Game Design Schools of 2018.
Recent graduates of CDM’s game program have gone on to work at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, NeatherRealm Studios, Owlchemy Labs, Firaxis, Wargaming, Phosphor Games, and many others.
Several grads have gone on to form their own gaming companies, including Young Horses, whose indie hit Octodad was developed at DePaul.
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