Aspiring video game creators in Winnipeg can soon learn how it's done at the University of Winnipeg, which is offering a Serious Games Certificate program this September.

She has no formal training in video games, but has been designing her own since she learned the BASIC programming language from library books to make ticktacktoe on a TI-99 (an early home computer ...

Video games are a "natural extension" of Fanshawe's curriculum development, says Mr. Reichhardt. It introduced post-graduate courses for 3D animation, a core video game production skill, in 2009.

The researchers encouraged the students, who were aged between 18 and 63 and had no advanced coding skills, to play the games "Human Resource Machine" and "7 Billion Humans." "They are two of the ...