The Game Development and Emerging Media program prepares you to enter the booming video game industry, rich with career opportunities in edutainment, simulation, and visualization. Our innovative, practice-based curriculum equips you with creative skills and advanced technologies to create compelling playable media and become an inventive storyteller.
Uniquely interdisciplinary, the program ensures you graduate with unmatched experience and a highly marketable résumé and portfolio. From serious games to model patient interventions, simulations to explore cognitive empathy in accessible tourism, or interactive data visualizations for crisis communications you will collaborate with faculty and students on impactful projects that bridge diverse fields.
With access to state-of-the-art facilities like the Media Art and Design Lab and the Advanced Graphics Lab, you'll be ready for roles such as 3D modeler, animator, and programmer, as well as emerging opportunities in the game, television, and film industries. Join us to become a leader in this dynamic and rapidly evolving field.
- Degree Type
- BS
- Area of Interest
- Computing & Technology
- Associated Colleges or Schools
- Program Location
- Queens Campus
- Required Credit Hours
- 120
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Admission and Program Information
For more information about admission to this and other acclaimed undergraduate programs at St. John’s University, please visit Undergraduate Admission online. Or contact us directly at the campus of your choice:
Admission Office - Queens Campus
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Our Game Development and Emerging Media program empowers students to:
- Become visionary designers, developers, and thought leaders in immersive and interactive media.
- Drive interdisciplinary and collaborative research to tackle global challenges through innovative gaming solutions.
The program also equips the student with the ability to
- Code for games and emerging media
- Write narratives and scripts that consider reader agency and leverage expressive code
- Produce digital assets for interactive experiences
- Identify the social, political, historic, economic impact of emerging media and games
- Ethically design interactive and play experiences
Industry Professionals and Academic Scholars
- Associate Professor
- Professor
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor
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