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Qualification
Postgraduate Diploma
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Location
Falmouth University
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Study mode
Distance / Online
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Start date
26-MAY-25
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Duration
2 years
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.
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University information
Falmouth University
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University League Table
64th
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Campus address
Falmouth University, Falmouth Campus Reception, Woodlane, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4RH, United Kingdom
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