With a blend of traditional and emerging disciplines that cross multiple departments and colleges at Northeastern, Game Design students are empowered to pursue a range of career opportunities in the industry, including:
- Game programmer
- Game software engineer
- Game designer
- Game producer
- Game tester
- Game user experience researcher
- Indie game developer/entrepreneur
- Graphic designer
- User experience designer
- Interaction designer
- Academic researcher in HCI, computer science, and game design
- Usability engineer
- Game/interactive media user researcher
- Traditional creative disciplines:
- Artist
- Designer
- Software engineer
- Tester
For those pursuing a degree in a traditional discipline, we encourage students to broaden beyond their discipline and study emerging interdisciplinary areas as well. This will offer a broader education and the skills needed to pursue traditional opportunities outside of games.
