Turn your game ideas into immersive experiences with a specialization in Game Design and Development within your Media Arts and Science degree. Game developers create products that entertain and educate, taking players from the far reaches of space to cutting-edge medical tools. Here, you’ll learn how to move your ideas from concept to finished game by collaborating with other students in real-world business teams. Together, you’ll brainstorm, research, program, illustrate, and pitch projects for board games, mobile games, or video games.
Build the future of gaming
What you'll learn
You’ll learn how to turn your ideas into exciting games by working with a team to build projects from the ground up. Using professional software and equipment in our Media Arts and Science Research and Learning Arcade (MARLA), you’ll create immersive experiences that captivate players. Your hands-on projects will cover everything from scriptwriting and concept art to game testing, user experience design, digital animation, and sound. With guidance from faculty mentors, you’ll develop real projects that can be published and help you launch a career in game development.
State-of-the-art facilities
If you can imagine it, we'll help you create it, utilizing industry-standard gear in our top of the line labs and classrooms.
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Study abroad
Travel to Greece and return with real-world skills and finished projects for your portfolio as you document the past and present on a Greek island.
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Sample job titles
- Augmented reality designer
- Augmented reality developer
- Game designer
- Game developer
- Game producer
- Game production artist
- Technical designer
- Unity developer
- Unreal developer
- Virtual reality designer
- Virtual reality developer
Companies that hire our students
- 4A Games (Sliema, Malta)
- Blizzard (Irvine, California)
- Bottom Line Performance (Indiana)
- Gearbox Software (Frisco, Texas)
- Half Full Nelsen (Indiana)
- HTC (Taipei, Taiwan)
- Owlchemy Labs (Austin, Texas)
- Pipeworks Studios (Eugene, Oregon)
- Plow Digital (Indiana)
- Rockstar Games (San Diego)
- Treyarch (Santa Monica, California)
- Vision3 Interactive (Indiana)
The Luddy experience
Our living learning community
Find your community at the Luddy LLC—where Luddy students live together, connect through exclusive events, and grow in a supportive, tech‑focused environment.
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Scholarships
Attending the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering is more affordable than you think. Learn about ways to reduce your cost of attendance.
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Student organizations
IU Indy offers a variety of student organizations, from clubs for future entrepreneurs to those exploring ethics in tech. Discover Luddy’s student organizations and find one that fits your interests.
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