Why should I study Game Design and Creation?
Game Design and Creation provides a flexible framework that encourages you to be creative, innovative and enterprising as you apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills and incorporate technologies to address game design and creation. You will produce games and game assets that allow you to demonstrate the knowledge and skills associated with the manipulation of digital communication media. Games can be developed across electronic, board and/or card styles.
Where does Game Design and Creation lead?
Understanding the process of creating games can lead to further study at TAFE SA, at University or at other institutions such as the SA Film Corporation.
Beyond further study, experience in game design, development and creation could lead to employment or work experience with game companies. Many game developers make use of crowd-funding platforms to prototype, build and market their games.
What work will I do in Game Design and Creation?
Students will follow their interests in across a range of media such as electronic, board and/or card games. Topics will be based around areas such as:
- Story development in a game context
- Game design and development using an industry standard game engine (either Unity or Unreal)
- Game scripting (predominantly using nodes)
- 2D asset creation in Adobe Animate
- 3D modelling and rendering using Blender
- Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)
- Special effects compositing
- Cut scene video production
- User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design
- Project management
- Using AI (for decreasing programming requirements and increasing game component output)
What do other students think about Game Design and Creation?
It was a good course that taught me about what a game is and how to make one. We had the chance to pick any type of game we wanted to make.
Where can I find more information about Game Design and Creation?
For more detail about content and assessment, view the course information:
- Stage 1 (Year 11)