MA Indie Game Development (Online)
Falmouth University
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Become a confident and daring indie game developer.Course overviewProduce vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers on this online Indie Game Development MA. 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 ...Read more

Become a confident and daring indie game developer.

Course overview

Produce vibrant and engaging experiences for gamers on this online Indie Game Development MA. 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.

You will:

  • 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

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
  • Designers, developers, programmers and analysts at companies such as Facebook
  • Doctoral researchers in artificial intelligence and/or data science, sponsored by the likes of Google

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64th
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Vivian
29 Nov 24

Falmouth University has modern and fully decked out facilities with everything you need in them. I enjoy going to different onsite facilities in my free time to study there..Read more

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28 Nov 24

Great facilities, teaches you in a realistic industry environment. Lecturers seem to always go above and..Read more

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

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£12,150 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - 2 years part time - MA/MSc course. £7,921 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - PGDip course.

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£12,150 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - 2 years part time - MA/MSc course. £7,921 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - PGDip course.

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£12,150 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - 2 years part time - MA/MSc course. £7,921 total fee (incl. acceptance fee) - PGDip course.

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Falmouth University
Falmouth University , Falmouth

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Woodlane Falmouth Cornwall And Isles Of Scilly TR11 4RH United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Falmouth Town  0.4 miles away

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