You are passionate about interactive storytelling and innovative problem-solving, and your creativity and analytical skills drive you to explore the latest advancements in multimedia, AI, and human-computer interaction. Welcome to the challenging world of creating engaging, user-centered experiences. Focus on visual aesthetics, narrative development, user experience, and interface design in a collaborative development environment using teamwork and iterative processes.
Our interdisciplinary degree program in game design empowers students to develop specialized skills for careers in the dynamic fields of interactive and digital design for entertainment, as well as informative and educational purposes. Focus on visual aesthetics, narrative development, user experience, and interface design in a collaborative development environment using teamwork and iterative processes. Game Design students take courses in visual communication, user experience, character design and world building, and web application and digital design. Students utilize interactive storytelling and innovative problem-solving, creativity and analytical skills with industry-standard tools in multimedia, AI, and human-computer interaction.
Winthrop University’s Design Programs deliver a comprehensive four-year bachelor’s degree in game design, interior design, illustration, and graphic design. We train students in the areas of research, analysis, and design for their end products to meet human needs and intended contexts for print, screen, or built environments. We empower students to become directors of visual communication, to think conceptually, and to have an emphasis on systematic and strategic approaches to design.
Winthrop design faculty are seasoned professionals who give students practical experience that prepares them for becoming lifelong learners and engaged citizens. Bringing their own research and activities into the classroom, students see best practices at work.
Brad Young
Associate Professor of Game Design
Office: 243 McLaurin
Phone: 803/323-2495
E-mail: youngb@winthrop.edu
Are you ready to join the ArtsWinthrop family of creatives? We can't wait to meet you!