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Another step towards final approval of the game major

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

We heard last week that the college curriculum committee approved the Game Design and Immersive Media major here in the Radio-Television Department of the ROy H. Park School of Communication at Ithaca College. Isn’t that a mouthful. FInally! A big cheer for everyone’s hard work.
What does this mean to incoming students? The major isn’t on [...]

Game Events Spring 2009

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

3 pieces of news in the Videogame Design & Immersive Media program at Ithaca College so far this Spring 2009 semester - the global game jam, a visit by a videogame industry executive producer, and the New york Comic Con.
In early February the Global Game Jam took part in more than 50 sites around the [...]

Playing Games

Friday, October 24th, 2008

During the freshman year of the game design major, we focus on analog games - board games and card games. We play them in the fall to learn about win conditions, rules, game play mechanisms, and we make them in the spring to put our knowledge into action.
Here are some more pictures from the intro [...]