The controller is in your hands.
Today isn’t just a nod to your favorite boss fights, speed runs, or pixel-perfect nostalgia. It’s National Video Game Day—and here at UAT, we’re less about playing games and more about engineering them.
Welcome to a university where the GPU hums louder than the lecture hall. Where prototypes get built between classes. Where your side quest becomes your career.Game Studies at UAT: The Full Stack of Play
UAT doesn’t offer one game degree. It offers a game development ecosystem—a full suite of specialized programs designed for the next generation of developers, designers, and disruptors.
Build the engine under the hood. Learn real-world coding, AI, and systems architecture using the same tools as AAA studios. JavaScript to C++, Unity to Unreal—it’s all here.
Level design. Gameplay systems. Story arcs. Create mechanics players can feel in their gut. Collaborate across disciplines in studio-style teams and prototype until it’s addictive.
3D modeling. Rigging. Environment art. Cinematics. This is the visual layer of immersion—and UAT students have built full asset pipelines before their degrees are even framed.
VR, AR, XR—it’s not the future. It’s now. Build spatial experiences that blend interaction, presence, and narrative inside UAT’s dedicated VR Lab.
At UAT, you won’t be writing theoretical essays about game design tropes. You’ll be deploying working builds. Every student completes a Student Innovation Project (SIP)—a market-ready, portfolio-building product that solves real problems. It might be a game. Or it might be something games have never done before.
Because here, you don’t wait four years to start building. You build now.
Because every professor has shipped.
Because your dorm room might double as a game studio.
Because your classmates? Future co-founders.
Our grads aren’t just playing the game. They’re designing the next generation of it—at places like Blizzard, Lionbridge, Gearbox Entertainment, and beyond. They’re also applying game logic to military training, VR therapy, education systems, and simulation tech you haven’t even heard of yet.
National Video Game Day is fun. But your career? That’s next-level.
If you’re ready to turn gameplay into a profession—
UAT is ready to hand you the tools.Because the future of games doesn’t build itself.
But here? It kind of does.
Explore the suite of Game Studies degrees at uat.edu/gamestudies