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Game Design and Development MS

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.

Rochester Business Journal features RIT's game design program.

RIT’s game design and development program was ranked sixth at the undergraduate level and 10th at the graduate level in new international rankings from The Princeton Review.

To accommodate its growing number of graduates, the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences will hold two separate commencement ceremonies on May 10, 2025.

WROC-TV reports that gamers are invited to RIT’s eighth annual ROC Game Fest from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28.

WHEC-TV reports that RIT will host the eighth annual ROC Game Fest Sept. 28 to celebrate all things video games.

A team of students won the Grand Prize at GameFest 2024 for developing Mushroom Kid’s Big Grass Sword. The platformer game follows Mica, a little mushroom on a journey to claim a powerful weapon and rescue its village after the residents are captured by a gigantic bird.

A video game created by RIT students and faculty has reached a long-awaited milestone. That Damn Goat, developed and published through RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios, is now available for purchase on the popular Nintendo Switch gaming console.