Students can translate theoretical, written, spoken, visual and interactive concepts into interactivity: game mechanics, prototyped game materials, and/or create game art expressing personal conceptual ideas and research. Students can create game art that demonstrates material and technological skills expected for entry into professional practice. Students can design games for multiple mediums such as digital (2D and 3D), analog and tabletop, mixed reality, and emerging technologies.

Students are able to take strategic risks combining or synthesizing ideas, images, or techniques in original/innovative ways to produce creative interactive game experiences. In particular: the ability to translate written concepts and collaborative input into analogous structured interactive expressions.

Students work cooperatively to achieve shared goals. This includes the ability to critique, respond to suggestions, and create consensus within the group structure of a game production.

Students identify and prepare for appropriate professional pathways by engaging with program faculty and available career development resources. This includes creating a game arts portfolio, demo reel, website, resume and artist statement.

Students apply their knowledge of history and theory of gaming and art practices to contextualize their work within historical landscapes, social contexts, and contemporary practices.

Students can create meaning parallel with their intentions, work formed through the interrelationship between multiple modes of game production, and are moving towards building an independent artistic voice and a cohesive body of work.

Students can work with state-of-the-art game related technology in the areas of game engines, game programming, game animation, and asset creation/implementation for game.

Students can engage with diverse and global perspectives, histories, and values, including the cultural relevance of larger systems of power and privilege. View rubric.

Students demonstrate an understanding of sustainability as a global, social, economic, environmental, and practice-based concern.