International Game Design Practices

Students build upon and perfect their existing game by meeting with and pitching games to representatives of Japanese studios, publishers and distributors.

Saying ‘sayounara’ to Tokyo

By Emma RauschThe International Game Design Practices students reflect on what they learned and gained during their week in Japan.

A representative of "Sola" meets with game design students.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu: The IGDP group meets Japanese game developers

By Emma RauschGraduate student Emma Rausch and the other International Game Design Practices students spent the week networking with game designers.

Gaby Benninghoff and Ryan Reske looking at cherry blossom trees

Bad habits

By Emma RauschAdjusting to a different culture’s standards and habits is difficult, master's student Emma Rausch observes.

People walking down a sidewalk alongside a Japanese street

The silent metropolis

By Emma RauschAs master's student Emma Rausch and the rest of the International Game Design Practices class emerged from the subway into Tokyo for the first time, they heard almost nothing.