We enjoyed a busy fall with our industry activities, collaborating to provide students with ample learning opportunities. Check them out, plus what's to come this Spring. Industry/alumni: want to get involved? Reach out! We'd love to work together.

Congrats to Reed Devany, alumnus and Technical Program Manager at Rec Room, who will present at the upcoming @Official_GDC! Reed will discuss the perception of diverse sexualities in Western RPG. Learn more:

Cohort 34 had a great time at our campus playtest event. Thank you to all who attended! Game testing and QA is a critical piece of the development process, and being able to hear from our peers is so valuable to our learning outcomes and game quality.

Hey @SMU! Did you know #SMU has a grad school for making video games? It’s true! And we need YOU to play our newest student-made games TOMORROW 11/14 10am-12:30pm. Click here for locations:

We love Halloween at SMU Guildhall. Check out some of this year’s excellent costumes. Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃👻

Today at Cohort 34 Orientation, we welcome 56 students from China, India, Taiwan & the U.S. (10 states). 40% are female & 18 students have worked or interned in the gaming industry! We’re excited to see what you achieve over the next 2 years. Welcome to the Hilltop & Ford Hall 🎉

We look forward to welcoming Cohort 34 to campus — beginning with today’s Meet & Greet event and followed by Orientation on Friday and the 2024 GameJam on Saturday! It will be a great weekend 🙌🎮

Video games are used in so many different types of applications in a wide range of industries. Check this one out! Video games for sea lions 🤯

Ladies and gents, boys and girls, welcome to the festival! Rev your engines and come play Fastival — Free on Steam:

Turn yesterday's Flag Day 🇺🇸 into Flag WEEKEND! 🏁🏁 Gather your friends for some good fun with Fastival, a single or multiplayer racing game now free on Steam. Who can collect the most wacky item power-ups and speed around the carnival rides the fastest?

3-2-1, go! 🚦🏁 Your bumper car is ready 🏎️ Come race in Fastival, a new student-made racing game on Steam. Pick your player and zoom around the carnival from level to level, collecting carnival tickets for wacky power-up and defense items.

Pick your adorable player, add to your Steam wishlist & get ready to race tomorrow 6/14. Zoom around a merry-go-round, a field of giant wack-a-moles, a roller coaster, a ring of fire! #gamedev #indiegame #steamgames #studentgame

Coming this Friday: Fastival, a cute and cartoony arcade racing game made by @SMU students. Race through an enchanting carnival and look out for wacky obstacles and cool shortcuts as you compete against up to three friends. Wishlist now on Steam! #gamedev

Did you catch our feature in the Spring 2024 edition of @smu Magazine? The story originally ran in the @dallasnews as well. We were excited to be able to share about our 20th anniversary of game development education and unlocking achievements for 20 years as #gamechangers.

A few more photos from this very special day. More to come!

Congratulations Cohort 32! You did it! #smu #gamedev #gamedeveducation

As we prepare for Cohort 32 to graduate tomorrow, we honor all they've done in their 2 years in our program. From thought-provoking research to commercial-quality team games, they've worked hard to get to here. Way to go! View our C32 catalog here:

Congrats to the Kneedle Knight team for winning Best Game Mechanics and the Short Form Game of the Year awards at this year's Student Game Awards! Play free:

Did you know we live stream our Guildhall graduation ceremony every year? Watch the SMU Guildhall Diploma Ceremony this Saturday at 11:30am on our YouTube channel:

Thank you to everyone who came out to learn more about the impressive, brilliant work done by our C32 game development master’s students. We love getting to hear them show off their thesis projects after many, many months of very hard work. You did it! @smudallas #smu #gamedev