Raffles College of Design and Commerce
From Tsumea
Games Design is a huge industry with an amazing range of career opportunities, and it’s only going to get bigger. Designing games will give you far more challenges than just playing them… and it’s much more fun. If you’re interested in creating stories, characters, animations and gameplay for games, this is the course to do.
A good game designer is someone who knows games and has a feel for what the consumer wants. Good communication and planning skills is also a key, as the process of creating a game is a collaborative one. Designers work in large teams in which elements are created separately and have to be seamlessly combined into a great game.
A great game needs to include a number of factors: gameplay, drama and storytelling, great graphics, player interaction, sound and music. They reflect human experience much more, which means that games have to involve many experiences. First and foremost though, games have to be fun.
This course concentrates on the artistic side of game creation. Using industry standard software, you’ll design and create small works. Though not a technical course, you will learn how to work within the production pipeline with people like programmers and follow game development from concept to publishing. You’ll play and analyse games; working out why some are successful and some not. You’ll learn to create stories and original design concepts and integrate these into game play.
[edit] Contact
Raffles College of Design and Commerce 99 Mount Street North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia
T: +61-2 9922 4278 F: +61-2 9922 7862
