Game Design

Alumni have worked on a variety of games

  • Cozy Grove
  • Fortnite
  • Magic: the Gathering
  • SMITE
  • Pathfinder
  • Starfinder
  • LotR Journeys in Middle Earth
  • Arkham Horror
  • Realm Defense
  • RWBY Grimm Eclipse Definitive Edition
  • Undead Quest
  • Yorescape
  • Cozy Grove 2
  • Wild Country
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic reboot

2,858U.S. video game company locations

$60,000median starting salary for Media School game design graduates

$97,000average video game design industry salary in 2016

To begin your career, consider these degrees or concentrations:

Jenna Hoffstein

My time at IU firmly anchored my design knowledge while letting me be comfortable exploring different genres and platforms as the industry changes from year to year.

Jenna Hoffstein, MS’11, play designer at Hasbro and founder at Little Worlds Interactive

Helpful classes

Introduction to Games

Build a deep game literacy by breaking down games into their different components. Learn how to learn a new game quickly, teach complex games to others and recognize and excel at the many different games played in everyday life.

Game Art and Sound

Learn the concepts, techniques and tools for creating audio, visual and narrative assets used in computer games and digitally mediated environments. Create original sounds, write and edit computer code, and author multiform narratives while studying roles in emerging and complex systems.

Game Workshop I: Prototype

Develop and implement a game design project with a team. This is part one of the three-semester game workshop, which results in a completed video game created by student groups.

Featured internship

Devin Good interned at the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology, where he created virtual reality and augmented reality sports experiences for IU Athletics. "I did not feel 100% qualified for the position, but I went in with confidence and a very strong willingness to learn new things, and that's what sealed the deal for me."