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Advanced Game Development Diploma

STUDY LEVEL

Diploma

EXPERIENCE

Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct

TUITION

$66,996 CAD

DURATION

2 years

INTAKES

Sep/Jan

DELIVERY MODE

On Campus

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What will you learn?

The Advanced Game Development Diploma program teaches industry-level classes covering core disciplines in game development, including art, design, programming, and production. Throughout the course students will create a variety of projects and games that will contribute to a portfolio to enter the games industry.

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Pray or Prey

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Equipoise

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Run Boy Run

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Bullet Mind

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Dogfight

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Martian Justice

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Alien War

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Morse Code Simulator

Participate in rewarding projects

Students create a collaborative game project in their final term

Course Structure

Term 1

Term 2

Students will learn and practice level design theory while building a level from concept to polish. Students will go through the level design process: documentation, blocking layouts, implementing gameplay, asset placement and finally polishing the experience. By the end of the course students will have a portfolio ready playable level for an action-adventure game.

Term 3

Students will learn and apply UI/UX best principles and practices, while designing and building a UI system from concept to shippable. Students will follow the full UX process from start to finish strategizing, define, design & prototype, verify & iterate, implement and document. By the end of the course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of understanding the user and their needs and have a workable Mobile Game UI and case study for their portfolio.

Term 4

This course deep dives into systems design and its various subsets – including multiplayer systems, social systems, world systems, and core gameplay systems. Students will learn fundamental design theory, such as compulsion loops, input/output, economies, and more. Students will design their own systems with design documentation like briefs, spreadsheets, flowcharts, and wireframes. They will then prove out their designs by prototyping them in-engine.

In this course students will work together in collaborative teams to rapidly produce multiple small, but focused games made in either Unreal or Unity that can server as portfolio pieces. Students will learn and apply project management and quality assurance skills and processes to manage their game’s production, reduce bugs and to ensure quality.

Term 5

Students will learn narrative design by planning, designing, writing, and implementing a quest for an open world game – including writing characters, dialogues and story structures. Students will be able to identify and the difference between story writing and narrative design, and practice both by creating story bibles, cine scripts, barks and narrative features.

Using state of the art hardware, students will be introduced to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. From both a technical and design perspective, students will learn about best practices for creating games for these platforms, and they will be introduced to a wide range of custom solutions that make it possible to develop for XR.

Term 6

The first of four sequential final project courses in which students form teams, ideate, pitch, and draft documentation about a single game concept. Working from these documents, the students then create a playable prototype proving out their main feature. This pre-production process allows students to be production ready for their game moving forward. Staff and industry mentors will guide and give feedback to the student teams.

The third of four sequential final project courses where students will continue to work in collaborative teams to produce a game. Students will focus on production to deliver two major game production milestones, alpha and beta, while taking guidance and feedback from staff and industry mentors and honing their professional communication skills.

The last of four sequential final project courses where students focus on fixing bugs, polishing, and presenting their games. Students will have a chance to network with and showcase their games to working industry professionals. Throughout this course students will engage with an industry partner to create a real life product and also develop marketing material to help promote their games and create a resume and portfolio while seeking employment.

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How to apply to this course?

Credit in English 30-1 or 65% in English 30-2 or equivalent
Credit in Math 30-1 or Math 30-2 or equivalent OR
Successful completion of the General Educational Development test OR
Satisfactory results on the Bow Valley College Admissions Test AND
Portfolio submission of 15-20 pieces of artistic/technical work.

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DOMESTIC FEES

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ow Valley College - Advanced Game Development Diploma

Advanced Game Development Diploma

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