<p>I want to know, which are the best colleges for game design & development.</p>
<p>University of California, Irvine</p>
<p>[UC</a> Irvine News Release: Game Center researchers to reinvent computer games :: UC Irvine TODAY](<a href=“http://www.today.uci.edu/news/nr_gamecenter_090901.php]UC”>http://www.today.uci.edu/news/nr_gamecenter_090901.php)</p>
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<p>^ oh wow, that sounds awesome! Game design is something I want to get into… but I never heard about UCI’s research center. Grr.</p>
<p>I know of:
Digipen
USC
WPI</p>
<p>Rensselaer.
Rensselaer’s Games & Simulation Program
Rensselaer’s Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Major, formally announced as a B.S. degree with enrollment beginning in Fall 2007, is among a handful of such programs in the country and is designed to educate students for early career positions, in addition to providing them with the technical, communication, and leadership skills needed to help shape an industry emerging out of the “games” phenomenon. </p>
<p>Game Design Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Rensselaer’s Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences program, like the existing Game Design Studies Minor, is a second-generation program intended (1) to educate students for early career positions and (2) to provide them with the technical, communication, and leadership skills needed to help shape an industry emerging out of the “games” phenomenon. </p>
<p>True Spirit of Collaboration
Students have played a seminal role in the development process of the games and simulation curricula by facilitating the links between the academic community and the world of games. From its inception, the GSAS was concieved as inherently interdisciplinary, where students would work in multidisciplinary teams. </p>
<p>Game design, development, and research can provide junctures and cooperation between the arts and cultural studies, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, and information technology. The Game Design Studies curriculum includes current courses offered within the departments of cognitive science; arts; and language, literature and communications, as well as new courses in digital imaging, animation, computer music, and performance art. </p>
<p>[Rensselaer’s</a> Games & Simulation Program](<a href=“http://www.gsas.rpi.edu/]Rensselaer’s”>http://www.gsas.rpi.edu/)</p>
<p>USC has a YouTube video about their game design program.</p>
<p>At SC there is an established program in the Viterbi School of Engineering. The CS (Games) degree program offers technical and creative training to prepare students to enter the video game and interactive entertainment industry. </p>
<p>In conjunction with the games major SC offers a 3D Animation minor. This program integrates cinema, fine arts and information technology coursewrok into an interdisciplinary minor. Other minors of interest may be 3-D Art for Games and 2-D Art for Games</p>
<p>In the School of Cinematic Arts you may wish to investigate the animation and digital arts major. SCA is planning on adding a $50 million addition to provide an incredible center for this major. Also, if you are extremely creative consider the interactive entertainment major in SCA.</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz. I know someone going there, had a Namco internship first year and almost a year abroad in Japan.</p>