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PG Dip Indie Game Development (Online)

PG Dip Indie Game Development (Online)

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Study mode

Online

Duration

2 years

Start date

27-MAY-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Diploma

Subject areas

Computer Games Design

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Become a confident and daring indie game developer.

Course overview

On this online Indie Game Development MA, you'll produce vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers. Analyse the principles of the creative process, from ideation and design through to delivery and dissemination. Integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, as well as specialist middleware and frameworks into your game development practice.

Explore business models used by indie games studios to see how you could start up your own. And, if you already have a business idea, get it off the ground with help from a mentor.

This Indie Game Development master's course is delivered by Falmouth's Games Academy, which has been rated no.1 for game design in England by The Princeton Review, 2023.

You will:

Apply the principles of design and creativity to generate fun and playful experiences
Learn to use industry-standard platforms for making games and adapt to their technical constraints
Use methods from business and analytics to better understand how people engage with indie games and game companies
Adopt both technical and arts perspectives as part of a design thinking process to deliver novel games
Collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, an increasingly important skill in the games industry
Practice digital and non-digital game design across a range of application domains, including gamification and serious games
Keep and control the Intellectual Property (IP) of any games you produce.

Course details

Throughout this indie game development course, you'll learn how to produce original and creatively distinguished games based on your own intellectual property. You'll gain the ability to critically reflect upon and evaluate working methods and find the most effective ways to collaborate on projects. You'll also gain key professional skills in pitching your ideas; communicating concepts and presenting artefacts visually with clarity and enthusiasm.

Careers

Our game development graduates have worked as:

Game developers at companies such as MediaTonic, Firesprite, Creative Assembly, Project Gamechanger and Rare
Creative AI specialists at companies including Ultrahaptics, Solutionpath and Bewsign
Researchers and developers at companies such as Facebook
Further study at doctoral-level in artificial intelligence and/or data science, sponsored by the likes of Google

Our graduates have a track record of producing successful indie games. Published titles include: Get Packed by Moonshine Studio, Soria by Polargryph, SAI by Studio Mutiny, RoBoats by Animal Puree, Kick Your Astronaut by SquirrelSoft and Karate Krab by Liquid Sapling. Visit Our Games page to find a selection of real games that Falmouth students have collaborated on.

Modules

You'll work in a team on a problem-led creative project. This will typically, but not necessarily, be a small game or creative app. You will work together to situate, design, implement and evaluate your creative artefact. With the support of a supervisor, you'll strategically manage scope, workflow, communication roles and responsibilities. At the end, you will have produced an original artefact, based on your own intellectual property, that clearly illustrates how you can engage an audience.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£3,961

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£3,961

Entry requirements

An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply.