Game Business & Publishing Major

Students will discover and develop the entrepreneurial mindset that is critical to succeed in today’s dynamic business environment so that they will be able to imagine, create, identify, assess, and act on business opportunities in a variety of contexts and organizations. Through real-world examples and hand-ons activities, students will embrace an entrepreneurial and strength-based mindsets that will facilitate their understanding of the major functions of business and the relationships between them, as well as the importance of self-inquiry and teamwork.

Game History is an integrated, cross-disciplinary hands-on history class where students actively research the evolution and history of games through the lenses of design, art, technology, business, society and culture. Working with resources from the Game History Teaching Collection, and from the perspective of their discipline as a game developer, students will play, study and research historical to contemporary games. In this way, students will discover the nexus of relationships driving game development.

In the competitive and expanding game industry, it isn’t enough just to make a great game – you need to have a plan on how to bring it to your players. In this course students will explore the development of an interactive product from the development of a concept to product launch and beyond. Emphasis will be placed on the intersection of business and publishing with product development including market research, strategic partnerships, go to market plans, monetization, and more.

An individually supervised experience in a selected profit or nonprofit organization. Provides opportunity for career exploration, and to observe and develop technical, interpersonal and conceptual skills. Specific experiences are developed for each workplace in conjunction with a site supervisor. In addition to working a minimum of 8 to 10 hours per week students will discuss and evaluate their experiences. Note: 足彩胜负14场 must be secured prior to the start of the course.

This course covers the basic microeconomic theories within a business context as they apply to markets, analysis of cost, producer and consumer behaviors, industrial organization, strategic thinking, and pricing strategies. These economic concepts will be continually applied to current events, policy issues, and business situations.

The college capstone in Game Development is an opportunity for students in the Game Studio to pursue a self-directed experience in a collaborative Game Development environment that intentionally integrates their liberal learning in the Core curriculum with their degree learning. Students spend the semester working in teams conceptualizing and building a proof of concept that they may choose to pitch to a faculty panel for selection for production in the second semester.

In EGD 420, Game Studio III, seniors successful in pitching their games during the college capstone in the Fall semester continue into full production. Forming large production teams, games are taken to the perfect polished state of gold master, ready for publication. Academic emphasis for the class is focused on working successfully in a professional studio environment, preparing for entrance into the job market, and taking personal craft to the next level.