Maria Deslis, Game Design & Development, MS–Creative Industries track, 2020

Post Grad Employment: Serenity Forge, Game Producer

Undergraduate Degree: Computer Science

MS Focus Interest: Game Design & Development

Portfolio: https://eternalearth888.itch.io/

MS Courses Taken in the Program  

Core classes:

• Creative Industries Professional Seminar: The Business of Creativity
• Creative Technologies
• Design Methods
• Design Studio

Elective classes:  

• Game Design
• User-Experience Design
• Game Development
• Master's Independent Studyx2
• K12 Computer Science Education Research

Creative Industries Design Thesis: Eternal Eclipse : Games as a Tool for Healing

• Problem = Using games for positive impact
• Focus = Game design and development
• Final Product = games as a tool for healing