Most areas of software engineering start in deeply theoretical stages where they're only studied in Computer Science universities. Then they gradually leak out

Most areas of software engineering start in deeply theoretical stages where they're only studied in Computer Science universities. Then they gradually leak out where you no longer need a PhD to understand it but a 4 year Bachelors is still preferred. Then they enter the mainstream and any tech school will do (and maybe even just some online tutorials). Finally some shitty colleges will offer 2 year programs dedicated to teaching you "all the skills required to get a job in the industry" from scratch in 2 years. "Video game development" is squarely in the last category. Facial Recognition, NLP, ML are still in the second (out of the hands of academics but not quite plug-and-play yet - though getting there with TensorFlow and MXNet and some of the newer AWS services)