Level up! Meet the Mount’s new Game Programming major
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ideo games are an integral part of pop culture. From mobile and PC apps such as Candy Crush and Genshin Impact, to popular franchises such as Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. and Pokémon, video games have become accessible to a wider variety of audiences by constantly evolving and adapting with the introduction of new technologies. In response, the Division of Mathematics and Information Technology recently added Game Programming to the college’s list of majors. With game programmers in high demand, the Mount is committed to teaching the next generation how to use emerging digital media and programming technologies within the game development
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industry, and within diverse settings and populations that also use these state-of-the-art technologies. Game Programming majors won’t just dig deeper into the games they enjoy. They’ll take an interdisciplinary approach by gaining artistic, communication, mathematical, and computational skills that will help them understand what makes games fun. These skills can be used for more than just making their own games. The computer programming principles they will demonstrate are the same ones that drive the websites, mobile apps, and desktop applications we use every day. Micah Modell, assistant professor of Information Tech-
