Along with great game design, serious games need content and pedagogy expertise, design research, and impact research.
Ever since the Internet boom in the 1990s, people have been speculating about the computer application that would revolutionize the information age. Experts, investors, and competitors continuously searched for the "Killer Ap." The media's focus on the elusive "Killer Ap" made it nearly impossible for any application to live up to the hype. A number of computer applications have taken off throughout this time period, however. One of them is computer gaming.
Computer gaming has always been popular among
kids both young and old. As the information age progressed, computer games were developed that could be played against others from remote areas over
the Internet, and gaming animation improved by leaps and bounds. These improvements increased demand for computer games, and the industry is really
starting to come into its own.
If you are interested in a computer gaming career, you should look into enrolling into a game design program. Computer game design programs teach students
from different technological standpoints. They first help students learn the programming skills necessary to design a computer game. Those that are
interested more in how the game looks and feels spend more time learning about gaming animation. These days, skilled computer gaming animators can
also find jobs in motion picture animation studios.
There are some game design programs offered online for working professionals. Online programs are popular among people who need to balance full time
jobs with school work. Online game design programs are especially popular to game design students because those students are already generally familiar
with online formats.