Design and Development of Computer Games
Program Director: Diana Silberman – Keller Ph.D.
Director Assistant: Lily Shasha
Program Content Coordinator: Renan Gluzman
Pedagogic Coordinator: Heidi Halevi
Academic Adviser: Gonsalo Frasca





"...Gaming is a future's language, a new form of communication
emerging suddenly and with great impact across many lands and in many problem situations. This new communication form represents the first effort by man to formulate a language which is oriented to the future. This future will in all certainity differ dramatically from the past, and the languages which have passed to us from antiquity will no longer suffice."

Richard Duke, 1974





Electronic games are a relatively new platform, but they have succeeded in a relatively short time in placing themselves on an equal footing with the world’s most influential media. In recent years the academic world and scientific research have started to recognize them as a phenomenon worthy of attention in that they possess social and behavioral patterns. This program is intended to train new creators for working in the high-tech professions and provide them with an incentive to initiate unique projects in the writing and electronic games fields. Together with academic research the students will gain hands-on experience with tools from the most predominant environments in the market.


The program will professionally train the student for work in the following fields:


Content design, copywriting – combining high-tech with advertising.

Game software in a variety of development environments – the Internet, computer, modding, cellular, interactive TV.

Animator, graphic designer – combining the production, entertainment and high-tech fields.



The department will cooperate with prestigious companies with the aim of enabling ongoing exposure to games and applications that will be developed by the students during the course. Students will also receive reliable criticism from the Israeli communications community and other professional bodies.