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WHY GAME DESIGN?
At Urban Arts, students don’t just play games—they create them. As the nation’s premier nonprofit teaching video game design, we prepare young people for college and career by blending coding, 3D modeling, animation, and storytelling with the essential workforce skills of collaboration, leadership, and design-thinking. Students learn to build original games from the ground up, pitch their ideas, and develop portfolios that colleges and employers notice.
Game design fuels creativity while building critical problem-solving and technical expertise for a $300B industry and beyond. The results speak for themselves: Urban Arts students have earned over $46M in scholarships and launched careers at Lucasfilm, Unity, Amazon, Salesforce, and more. With Urban Arts, creativity isn’t just encouraged—it’s the pathway to the future.
A 2,400 MILE FIELD TRIP ✈️ FOR SIX URBAN ARTS STUDENTS
SEATTLE, WA—“Magic for Lunch” is on the agenda when gaming studios Wizards of the Coast and Nintendo partner with Urban Arts, hosting students on a 2,400 mile field trip. Urban Arts is the national nonprofit generating real mobility for underrepresented youth from low-income communities with a novel approach—STEAM futures through game design. Field trips with […]