Game development education has become more popular all over the World. A review shows several topics, which deal with games in application to teaching and learning: gamification, designing separate courses, and designing full educational programs. Within this last topic presented article discusses the issues of training specialists in the field of computer games development. The authors analyze the world and landscape of this area and discuss the experience of building systematic training within the framework of the educational program of higher education in the field of “Software Engineering”. In addition, the authors consider the issues of scientific and applied projects related to the field of computer games development, as well as their mutual influence on each other and on the training of specialists.