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# Can NYU do for New York’s game community what it did for film?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/can-nyu-do-for-new-yorks-game-community-what-it-did-for/
- Published: 2011-12-17T19:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:28:27.000Z
- Description: On Friday, NYU announced its MFA for game design for its Game Center: The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice. The curriculum is centered on the creation of games and includes game design, criticism, program
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

On Friday, NYU [announced](http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/academics/graduate?ref=killscreen.com) its MFA for game design for its Game Center:

> The Game Center MFA is a 2-year Masters of Fine Arts degree that explores the design and development of games as a creative practice. The curriculum is centered on the creation of games and includes game design, criticism, programming, and visual design.

Game development in NYC have been a challenging proposition for a variety of reasons: Wall Street gobbled up tech talent (a problem tackled by [Hack NY](http://hackny.org/a/?ref=killscreen.com)), there has never been a large game studio company (outside of sales/marketing) to seed new baby startups, the city is awash a dozens of other creative communities, high cost of living and so on.

Nonetheless, developments like this are exciting and NYU has a long history of birthing new talent. The list of successful grads from the film department are lengthy and reputable: Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Joel Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Morgan Spurlock etc.

Let’s hope that laundry list reads as notably for games in ten years.

–*Jamin*