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The undergraduate B.A. in Game Development is designed for students who show exceptional talent and passion for digital art, interactive design, and real-time 3D worldbuilding. The curriculum combines foundational skills in drawing, modeling, and creative production with hands-on experience inside real-time game engines.

• Provides a pre-professional pathway with academic foundations in game development and interdisciplinary literacy
• An essential technical baseline education in art
• A competitive portfolio for applying to graduate game development programs

This pre-professional degree will also prepare students for continuing graduate-level education, which is expected for industry readiness. Once a student has earned a B.A. in game development, you can apply to the award-winning ÎÞÂëרÇø Guildhall Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development program.

The MIT graduate program is ÎÞÂëרÇø Guildhall's signature program for advanced game development career training. This professional degree program has pioneered game development education since 2003, providing developer-created curriculum that is mirrored to directly model and prepare students for real studio environments. Students each graduate with a competitive portfolio that consists of multiple real team games, as well as independent project research on critical present day topics relevant to the fields of game development and emerging technologies.

• Advanced, award-winning specialized training in Art Creation, Level Design, Production, or Programming
• Signature, industry-mirroring Team Game Production course sequencing in which you'll make and ship multiple real studio-quality games
• A competitive portfolio for applying to top-tier AAA and Indie game studios across the world 
• ÎÞÂëרÇø B.A. of Game Development graduates should consider continuing their education into this program to meet industry expectations for advanced, discipline-specific specialized training and expansive cross-disciplinary team development experience

MIT students enter as a cohort and progress in tandem through our two-year coursework. 

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