News
Game Design and Development MS
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July 1, 2026
Dr. José P. Zagal named Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
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).
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June 11, 2026
RIT researchers get design inspiration from rescuing neglected media
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.
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April 9, 2026
RIT game design students shine at RPI GameFest 2026
RIT students dominated RPI GameFest 2026, bringing home two major wins and eight finalist placements for their innovative game projects.
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March 25, 2026
RIT game design and development programs ranked among top five worldwide
According to new international rankings from The Princeton Review, RIT is one of the top five game design universities in the world.
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January 20, 2026
RIT students launch studio to bring bad game ideas to life
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.
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December 12, 2025
Digital Twins Are Changing University Campus Operations
Government Technology speaks to David Schwartz, director of the School of Interactive Games and Media, about digital twins—virtual versions of real-world spaces.
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September 15, 2025
Strong Museum kicks off first-ever conference on BIPOC Game Studies
WHEC-TV highlights the first conference on BIPOC Game Studies, co-hosted by RIT.
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September 8, 2025
Game design and development co-op project becomes smash mini game hit on Steam
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.
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July 8, 2025
Game-changer Stephen Jacobs retires after 30 years
After three decades of teaching, mentoring, and pioneering academic and research programs at RIT, Professor Stephen Jacobs is retiring.
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May 27, 2025
RIT named a top 5 university to study game design
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.
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April 24, 2025
How to Get a Degree in Game Design
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.
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April 23, 2025
Grad’s job is all fun and games
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.