For the love of the (video) game: Two alumni find jobs in the video game industry through the humanities and social sciences
Ben Schroeder and Timothy MacKenzie are two UWM alumni who have made a home for themselves in the video game industry—Schroeder as a software engineer at PlayStation and MacKenzie as a localization specialist for Nintendo. Neither have degrees in technology; instead, they learned the skills they need for their jobs through their majors in urban studies, journalism, and in Language, Literature, and Translation.
Read the entire story at Letters & Science In Focus magazine.