#Game Design and Development

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What Can You Do with Game Design Courses? - United Institute of Design

Video games are not just a form of entertainment anymore - they are a global industry that combines art, technology, storytelling, and invention. Video games are everywhere, from smartphones to consoles and also in the form of virtual reality headsets and there is a huge demand for skilled individuals who can create games. If you are thinking of a career that combines both creativity and technology, taking game design courses might be your first step.

So, what can you actually do with a bachelor of game design? Let's look at some of the exciting things that a pathway with a graduate in game design can do.

Understanding Game Design: More Than Just Playing Games

Game design involves the task of conceiving, creating, and refining the rules, structure, and experience of a game. While gamers get to enjoy the end product, there is a lot of tedious work involved, including world-building, character design, code implementation, and sound integration.

Game design courses provide students with an understanding of how to balance creativity with realism, the imagination that goes into designing levels that will attract a player and the methods various humans use to react while playing. You will learn to use industry-standard applications such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, and Maya.

At UID, the B.Design (Hons.) in Animation & Game Design program consistently creates learning opportunities that instill technical skill as well as innovative thinking in gameplay, storytelling, and immersive design.

Career Opportunities After Game Design Courses

A bachelor of game design opens the door to many exciting and dynamic roles in the gaming industry and beyond. Here's what you can do after completing your course:

1. Game Designer

This is one of the most sought-after careers available. Game designers establish the baseline for the game: rules, challenges, the environment, levels, and how players advance through the game. Designers would generally work with artists, programmers and producers to create the game.

Key skills: storytelling, level design, logic, and user engagement.

2. Game Developer / Programmer

If you enjoy coding, and want to make ideas into playable games, then you may want to think about being a game developer. Developers write the code that makes the game run in the way the designer wants it to work. Developers may code to a platform (mobile, console or PC) or code to a game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc.).

Key skills: C++, C#, JavaScript, debugging, and physics simulations.

3. Level Designer

The level designer builds the individual levels, missions, or stages of the game. Level designers use their creativity and strategic thinking to build balanced, fun experiences for players. 

Key skills: spatial thinking, user flow, and scripting.

4. Game Artist / Animator

Designers will design the visual graphic style of the game, which involves the characters, environments, objects, and effects in the game. A majority of the work includes modeling, animation, and texturing which will occur primarily in 3D game development. 

Key skills: 2D/3D design, modeling, rigging, character animation.

5. Game Tester / QA Analyst

Game testers play new games to discover bugs or glitches that developers must overcome. They will also find balance issues in new games, which get fixed based on tester feedback as a game gets polished by the developers. 

Key skills: attention to detail, problem-solving, written communication.

6. Narrative Designer / Script Writer

In story-based games, the narrative designer will be the person responsible for implementing the game's story, dialogues, and world-building into the game. For story-based games, the narrative designer's task is to make the narrative flow naturally through what the player does in the game.

Key skills: writing, character development, storytelling mechanics.

7. UI/UX Designer (Game Interfaces)

User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) designers guarantee that players enjoyably and easily maneuver menus, controls, and systems in casual and complex games alike. With an unsuspecting amount of responsibility, UI/UX designers play a crucial role in the design process.

Key skills: wireframing, prototyping, user testing, visual design.

8. Sound Designer / Composer

Sound is the third tool of fascinating abilities in game design collaboration, alongside graphics and gameplay. Sound designers create sound effects, ambient sounds, and music that can elevate the gaming experience.

Key skills: audio editing, composition, mixing, game audio engines.

Beyond Gaming: Expanding Opportunities

With a bachelor of game design, you're not limited to the gaming industry alone. Game design skills are transferable to other sectors like:

AR/VR Development: Used in education, medicine, and training simulations.

Film & Animation Studios: Especially for VFX and interactive storytelling.

Advertising & Marketing: Gamified apps and immersive brand experiences.

Education Tech: Interactive learning tools and educational games.

Simulation and Training: For aviation, military, healthcare, and industrial use.

Why Choose UID for Game Design Courses?

At UID, game design courses are part of the well-rounded B.Design (Hons.) in Animation & Game Design program. UID offers the perfect environment to learn, experiment, and grow as a designer.

Here’s what makes UID stand out:

Cutting-Edge Curriculum: Covers both animation and game design, giving you dual skills.

Studio-Based Learning: Access to high-end labs, software, and creative spaces.

Experienced Faculty: Industry professionals guide you throughout your journey.

Industry Exposure: UID connects you with real-world projects, internships, and expert mentors.

Creative Culture: Collaborate with students across different design disciplines and build a strong portfolio.

Game design is a dynamic and exciting space with immense potential for creativity! With the game industry quickly expanding globally, game design courses can be your pathway into one of the most exciting career options out there today. Whether you want to develop a mobile game that becomes the next best thing or you want to build vast virtual worlds or create incredible characters for AAA games, a Bachelor of Game Design will equip you for success! What are you waiting for? Ready to turn your passion for games into your career? Please check out UID's B.Design (Hons.) in Animation & Game Design!

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[prokopetz]

Sometimes I just want to take indie game developers by the shoulders and be like, dude, the reason big, chunky pixel art is so popular in precision platformers is because having movement and collision snap to a relatively coarse grid makes it easy to sight-read the hitboxes. It's not just for show. If your precision platformer uses chunky pixel art but doesn't have movement and collision snap to the grid, you've fundamentally misunderstood the functional reasons for your aesthetic choices. You want me to make pixel-perfect jumps in an engine where whether or not I get spiked depends on sub-pixel bullshit? Fuck off.

[bugbeast]

Self promo for my newest card game, Jewel Thief; but you can play it for free! First, though, let's cover the basics...

TL;DR - Its a 4+ player competetive card-matching game with four rule variants; buy it here or look for the orange text in this post to learn how to play it with a regular deck

"What is Jewel Thief?"

It's a card matching game with a villain; one player tries to match jewels in a 36 card grid while their opponent, the titular Jewel Thief, periodically steals cards from the board. You can check out its page on The Game Crafter for more information, but it'll spoil the rest of this post

"What makes it special?"

The game's turn structure would theorettically allow you, perhaps via some kind of infinite cloning machine, to play a round of Jewel Thief til the heat death of the universe. While I wouldnt recommend that, its lack of a player cap (and ease of set-up; seriously, all you do is put cards on a table) makes it a good party game choice.

But that's not all!

There are three extra rule variants that drastically alter the gameplay while keeping card matching and stealing as main mechanics. I believe the cards are versatile enough to allow for many custom games, too

"Okay, but why should I buy a silly game from some bug nerd?"

First off, ouch. Second off, that's the best part; you dont have to buy it to play it! Jewel Thief can be played with a standard 52 card deck. Here's how:

Step 1. Remove the 10s, Jacks, Queens, Kings and Jokers

Step 2. Download the free rules from the shop page

Step 3. Play the game, matching cards based on their values. You'll need to designate a value as the Diamond jewel for game 4

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That's it for my little self-promo. If you dont buy the game, I hope you'll at least give it a try and consider supporting my future projects.

I also post art and photography, which you can find under the bugbeast art and bugbeast photos tags. I hope you check them out

Thank you for your time <3

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Edit (Mar. 25, 2024) : Thank you to everyone who liked and reblogged this; if you play the game I encourage you to share your thoughts in the comments and/or reblogs (even if you hated it). Feel free to share any custom games or house rules you come up with, too. I'd love to try them!

Edit (Aug. 10, 2024) : Final edit most likely; gonna blaze this one more time for good luck then maybe start work on a postmortem for the project, maybe give a little backstory for anyone who cares. Life is a little rough right now, but fate willing, I'll be able to work on/post about my future projects, including the future of Jewel Thief itself

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750 Effect and FX Pixel All

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SEGA SATURN Sophia Development Systems

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I’ve decided to post all of the progress here as well, not just on instagram. Some people have asked to be tagged once I post some progress, but I can’t remember who they were. So if you wanna see future progress, let me know and I’ll tag you!

This one may not look too different from the previous one, but nothing really turned out the way I intended to.

The colors, the textures, the focus, the sounds, the camera, everything just seems so off, and oh boy the animation… this is the result of rushing and not knowing what I’m doing, just inserting keyframes, tweaking the graph editor and hoping for the best. So maybe signing up for this project wasn’t a great idea after all lol. Plus the datapad’s not even fully textured, you can literally see where I started adding details on the front, then for some reason I just left off lol

One thing I’ll definitely work on in the future is the menu itself, because if this project is for a graphic design thesis, then I might as well try to make the only thing that has something to do with it look more presentable. I’ll definitely be changing up the fonts, and I have some other ideas for the background as well.

But for now, I’ll move on to the remaining 5 character menu animations. Originally there were gonna be 5, not 7. At first I was randomly picking out the characters I wanted to make one for, then I realized, it’d probably be best, if each squad got one animation. The 501st gets Rex, the 212th gets Cody, the CG gets Fox, the 104th gets Wolffe, and the 241st gets Tukk. CF99 got Hunter but I really wanted to make one for Tech as well, since modeling and texturing him took the longest 💀

Once all of that’s done, I can finally move on to animating the trailer video. Which I’m terrified of, but oh well lol

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yeah

thank u sprout for this

novel/yap posts soon hopefully . this shitpost came about partially from procrastination

[prokopetz]

Making an indie horror game and saving money on asset development by having the monster just not show up.

[jess-the-vampire]

Ace Attorney x The Owl House au

I was asking for art ideas on my Instagram and this was one of the request ideas, probably because my AA hyperfixation returned recently

Then I got weirdly into it with its own lore to make these words work together, I didn't even draw all the ideas I had! I wanna do more and draw belos and some of the sprite animations for these guys !

So I'll do that later.

Honestly a lot of the names in this show could totally pass for AA names, Tinella Nosa is straight up an AA name.

Why is hooty the judge? Yes.

idk, enjoy this weird stuff i made

Bgs i made under cut:

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Game Design and Development| MNB SOFT SOLUTION

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[sethinthespace]

Yokai Parade

[magpieandpossum]

I'm already about 110% in love with these rough draft character sprites....

these are all unshaded, and will probably be continued to be edited, but I just wanted to share to get feedback! both garak and quark have alternate outfits as well ^^