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Games People Play: Exploring Depaul's Top-Rated Computer Game Development Program

DePaul Magazine

In March 2014, the Princeton Review, in conjunction with PC Gamer magazine, named the top 25 schools to study game design in the United States and Canada. DePaul's undergraduate program ranked 20th, a considerable leap from 2013’s honorable mention. The graduate program came in at 12th. DePaul's strong ranking reflects the game development program's extension of its basic game development, software engineering and programming to include art, design and storytelling, as well as computer graphics technology, networking, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Examples of the award-winning games developed by students and now marketed by such going concerns as Sony PlayStation …