{"id":1405,"date":"2011-12-12T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2011-12-12T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:11:40","slug":"nyu-game-center-2-year-master-program-fall-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/12\/12\/nyu-game-center-2-year-master-program-fall-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU Game Center 2-year Master Program Fall 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. Lots of work has lead up to this, but here at the New York University Game Center, we can finally announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate\">we are launching a 2-year MFA Degree in Game Design starting the Fall of 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate\">http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full announcement below.<\/p>\n<p>***********************************<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>NYU Game Center to Offer \u00a0MFA Degree in Game Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Beginning Fall 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York University has announced that the NYU Game Center, one of the world\u2019s leading academic game programs, will offer a new Masters of Fine Arts degree beginning in Fall 2012.\u00a0 MFA students will explore games as a creative art form as they design and develop games within a context of rigorous scholarly study in the two-year program at the NYU Game Center.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum includes game design, game programming, visual design for games, and game criticism. The program is distinctive in looking at games across a wide variety of media, from consoles and PCs to smartphones and social networks. Over the course of two years, students will find their voices as creative practitioners working on individual and group projects, as they study the theoretical and cultural aspects of games, all within the thriving community that is the NYU Game Center. For more detailed information, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate\">http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGames are the defining cultural form of this century and the NYU Game Center MFA is dedicated to exploring their potential,\u201d says Director Frank Lantz, \u201cThere are places to study the technical and business aspects of games, but the Game Center MFA has a unique creative focus on games for today\u2019s platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NYU Game Center features a roster of world-class faculty, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Director Frank Lantz, well-known game designer and successful entrepreneur, an instructor at NYU for nearly two decades<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Isbister, acclaimed researcher whose work on players was cited in Forbes, Wired, Scientific American, and NPR\u2019s Science Friday this year<\/li>\n<li>Jesper Juul, leading game scholar and theorist whose most recent book was selected by New Yorker magazine as one of the 5 essential books on games<\/li>\n<li>Eric Zimmerman, veteran game designer who recently exhibited work at MoMA and co-authored the most widely-used textbook on game design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NYU Game Center houses one of the world\u2019s largest collections of videogames, and offers a busy schedule of exhibitions, tournaments, and lectures, including the annual <em>PRACTICE: Game Design in Detail <\/em>conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Game Center MFA was created by Tisch in close affiliation with NYU\u2019s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, and NYU Poly. Together with efforts like the Games for Learning Institute and the NYU Poly Game Innovation Lab, the Game Center MFA makes NYU a global leader in games.<\/p>\n<p>Apply now: <a href=\"http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate\">http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate<\/a>. Deadline March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew. Lots of work has lead up to this, but here at the New York University Game Center, we can finally announce that we are launching a 2-year MFA Degree in Game Design starting the Fall of 2012. http:\/\/gamecenter.nyu.edu\/academics\/graduate Full announcement below. *********************************** NYU Game Center to Offer \u00a0MFA Degree in Game Design Beginning Fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2011\/12\/12\/nyu-game-center-2-year-master-program-fall-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYU Game Center 2-year Master Program Fall 2012&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}