Undergraduate
WPI’s pioneering, top-ranked Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) bachelor’s degree will both stretch and focus your talents as you explore the technical and artistic aspects of game development.
In our close-knit Interactive Media & Game Development bachelor’s degree program, faculty and students alike share a passion for finding new ways of looking at traditional media in order to create new media. Beginning on your first days on campus, you’ll be making things!—pushing boundaries and creating things that matter to you. Our students make games, interactive fiction, art installations, collaborative performances, or virtual environments.
Undergraduate Highlights
IMGD Specialties
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Technology
Our technical development courses help students learn everything from engine building and data analysis to artificial intelligence and procedural content generation.
2D Art & Animation
Our 2D art and animation courses help students learn everything from concept illustration and storyboarding to traditional and digital animation practices.
3D Art & Animation
Our 3D art and animation courses help students learn everything from digital sculpting and polymodeling to lighting and texture mapping.
Technical Art
Our technical art courses help students learn everything from rigging and mesh optimization to motion capture and pipeline management.
Design
Our design courses help students learn everything from game engine scripting and iterative playtesting to digital prototyping and documentation.
Writing
Our IMGD writing courses help students learn everything from nonlinear and interactive narratives to character development and scriptwriting.
Audio
Our audio courses help students learn everything from music recording and sound effects to robotic and live-coding performances.
Interactive Media
Our interactive media courses help students learn everything from UI and UX design to history and future trends of interactive media.
Game Studies
Our game studies courses help students learn everything from the game development process to the philosophy and ethics of games.