In March 2009, aiming at the development trend of the game industry from a strategic perspective, Jilin Animation Institute established the School of Game, which is the earliest and largest individual School engaged in professional game education in China, with more than 1600 students.

With the goal of cultivating high-level applied talents with devotion to family and country, game innovation and creative ability, the School adheres to the School-running Characteristics of “Integration of Education, Research and Industry, Integration of Technology, Culture and Art, and Integration of College, Government and Enterprise” and focuses on the cross integration of art and technology. The School of Game has majors in Digital Media Art and New Media Technology. The major of Digital Media Art is a national first-class undergraduate major, a featured high-level major of Jilin Province and a brand major of Jilin Province, Which is rated as a 6-star major by China Alumni Association of Airuishen Research Institute and an “A”class major by China Soft Science. The design discipline of the School is a characteristic high-level discipline in Jilin Province.

In 2021, the School’s “Digital Art Teacher Team” was approved as “Huang Danian Style Teacher Team of Colleges and Universities in Jilin Province”. Led by international experts and supported by basic and double-qualified teachers, the School has a diverse teaching team with excellent comprehensive quality in various industry fields. At present, the School has established scientific research platforms such as “Jilin Province Game and Interactive Media Technology Engineering Center” and “Jilin Province Key Laboratory (Game Research Laboratory)”, which would provide important guarantee for teachers’ scientific research and students’ practice. We have completed more than 100 national science and technology support projects and provincial teaching and scientific research projects, and have won a number of teaching achievement awards of Jilin Province. The course ‘Game Design and Development Practice’ has been awarded as a national first-class undergraduate course, and “Game Industry Project Development Practice’ has been awarded as a demonstration course of school-enterprise cooperation in Jilin Province, and 10 game series textbooks have been published. The School has held the “International College Students GameJam, ICSG” for 7 consecutive years, which involves nearly 1,000 students and teachers from domestic and foreign universities, receiving good international praise. Besides, students have won more than 1000 awards in various national and international game exhibitions and competitions.           

Centering on the School-running characteristics of “Integration of Education, Research and Industry”, the School of Game has successively built a “practice teaching platform for the connection of education and industry” with school related enterprises --- Jilin JAI PanGu Network Science and Technology Co., LTD and Zulong (Tianjin) Technology Co., LTD to share resources in terms of faculty, equipment, resources and game project development, incubate student innovation and entrepreneurship teams. With the goal of cultivating high-level applied game talents, it leads teaching reform with high-end projects in the industry.          

In the past five years, students have participated in more than 30 self-developed products such as Small Universe Community, JAI Friends Club, Changbai Awakening, Kyushu Cloud Business, Fantasy Zhuxian, and Forsaken World, etc. The practical level of students is in line with the market. The School has signed employment and internship bases with 52 enterprises such as NetEase, 37 Interactive Entertainment, Perfect World and ByteDance. In the past three years, the employment rate of the School graduates has exceeded 92%, and the professional matching rate has exceeded 83%. “High Employment Rate, High Matching Rate and High Employment Level” has become the label of the students of the School of Game, and the graduates of the School of Game have developed into the backbone of China’s game industry. In addition, the School is known as “the cradle of Chinese game designers”.