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Game Design and Development MS

He most recently co-authored Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (MIT Press 2024) and co-edited Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press 2024) and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge 2024).

Like Indiana Jones, researchers at RIT’s Interaction, Media, and Learning Lab hope to save pieces of history before they disappear so that people can learn from the designs.

RIT students dominated RPI GameFest 2026, bringing home two major wins and eight finalist placements for their innovative game projects.

According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, RIT is one of the top five game design universities in the world.

According to Steven Spielberg, all good ideas start out as bad ideas. That’s why a duo from RIT has launched the game studio Bad Ideas Productions.

Government Technology speaks to David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, about digital twins—virtual versions of real-world spaces.

WHEC-TV highlights the first conference on BIPOC Game Studies, co-hosted by RIT.

Luke Whited ‘24 (game design and development BS), a first-year game design and development MS student, recently published his miniature game, REDSHIFT to critical and audience acclaim. The game, which Whited describes as a first-person psychological horror short-story, has sold over 20,000 copies in its first two weeks, and reached the top of the charts for “new and trending” free games on Steam. 

After three decades of teaching, mentoring, and pioneering academic and research programs at RIT, Professor Stephen Jacobs is retiring.

RIT was ranked No. 5 on the Animation Career Review list of Top 50 Game Design Schools and Colleges in the U.S. and No. 2 New York state.

U.S. News and World Report discusses careers in game design and includes RIT in a list of schools offering the option to pursue it with a master's degree.

Rohit Crasta, who was among the second cohort of game design and development program graduates in 2013, is lead game designer for The New York Times, helping to create digital puzzles that have quickly become conversation starters in break rooms and on social media.