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 blend of technology, arts, and design.

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, virtual environments, and more. We can't wait to see what you make.

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Visualization of IMGD degrees. A BS in IMGD Technologies and BA in IMGD, which leads to optional concentrations in Visual Art, Technical Art, Writing, Audio, and Design.

IMGD Undergraduate Courses

As a student in our program, you’ll have the opportunity to take courses across the IMGD curriculum. Explore the dropdown below or take a look at WPI’s course catalogs to see the courses we offer!

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
3D Art & Animation
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
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

As an undergraduate, you can also take semester-long graduate IMGD courses to count towards your degree! See WPI's policies on credit conversion for more details.

Interested in an IMGD Minor?

WPI’s minor in Interactive Media and Game Development (IMGD) enables students to explore their interests in gaming and connect them to their major field of study.

As a student in our interdisciplinary program, you will develop a solid base in IMGD theory, tools, and techniques, and hone in on an area of interest, from animation to audio arts. Throughout your course of study you will also have many opportunities to apply your knowledge to hands-on applications: create a digital painting, write a game narrative, design a piece of interactive art for public display, and more.

Get started by filling out our IMGD Minor Approval Form. Direct any inquiries to IMGD's minor advisor:

Farley Chery
Associate Professor of Teaching, Interactive Media & Game Development

Farley Chery specializes in simplifying artistic and technical concepts. Having a multidisciplinary background, he works with students in his specialized area of Technical art and other areas of experimentation like storytelling, and experimental game mechanics. Systems he created have been used in multiple games and films and are a core component of Epic games character pipeline and the basis for ART tools. His courses fuse representation, world-building, and character design; preparing students to be highly productive production artists.Before joining WPI he designed studio experiences for ...

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