WHY

At MAGES Institute, we believe that today’s creators will be tomorrow’s changemakers. For over 14 years, we’ve been facilitating the next generation of game designers, concept artists, AR/VR developers, full-stack engineers, and digital creators. Our mission is simple: to combine creativity and tech to provide value in the world—and we haven’t strayed from that commitment from the start.

Building Present Day Wizards

We do more than teach software and tools—we build storytellers, problem solvers, and innovators. We take a curriculum that is current in industry relevance and grounded in research-based thinking to ensure the students leave our programs with the skill sets they need to be successful creators in an advancing sector in both the creative and tech industries. 

At MAGES, the future is always in the mix. While we still teach fundamental concepts in art and tech, adding newly minted technologies or theories not only prepares the students for jobs but also prepares them for futures they will help invent.

Faculty Grounded as Industry & Innovators

Every instructor who engages with MAGES Institute is an active better practitioner, educational thinker, or researcher-based thinker. Faculty come from studios that span AAA studios, tech start-ups, and R&D labs, so students are provided with a mentoring experience that is relevant, real, and sharp, sharp, sharp.

Beyond the Classroom: MAGES Studio & Mile 3 Finally

MAGES Institute is an educational institute, but we also consider ourselves a community. To that end, MAGES Studio—founded by our own alumni and faculty—builds applied games, AR/VR experiences, and transformative tech solutions to give back to the community and help address the world’s biggest challenges. MAGES Studio directly demonstrates that working with creativity and intention can lead to global impact. 

Additionally, we co-created Mile 3, a creative technology incubator and co-space for youth, educators, and industry creative technologies. Mile 3 creates opportunities to take ideas and turn them into action in a community, where students (from all forms of institutions and disciplines) work toward creating impactful innovations.