Game Design and Development & Game Programming courses and degrees
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Game Design, Development and Programming courses 

Build immersive, interactive experiences for a range of audiences across genres and platforms.

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What is a Game Design, Development and Programming course?

Game Design courses offer the skills used by industry to craft interactive worlds and tell immersive stories. This includes knowledge of key software as well as collaboration with other creatives in pursuit of a shared vision. Game Programming courses are where you will learn the coding and technical skills to bring games to life.
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Master industry-standard software

Learn the tools and game development processes used by leading studios.

Start making games from day one

Collaborate with other designers, artists and programmers to bring your game concepts to life.

Study local, work global

Open career doors to gaming studios around Australia and the world.

Explore Unreal

Learn advanced 3D skills to succeed in games, architecture, film, TV, and more with Unreal Engine.

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Our courses are industry-driven, delivered by designers for designers. All higher education courses include real-life industry experience helping you graduate with a shining portfolio and critical industry contacts.

Advanced Diploma of Game Design and Development
Advanced Diploma of Game Design and Development
Complete an Advanced Diploma of Game Design and Development and gain practical skills needed to thrive in gaming.
CRICOS 118473J
Full time Part time Accelerated
Sydney Online
Online On campus Blended
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Advanced Diploma of Game Programming
Learn programming and how to make complex games through an Advanced Diploma.
CRICOS 118474H
Full time Part time Accelerated
Sydney Online
Online On campus Blended
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Bachelor of Game Design and Development | Torrens University
Bachelor of Game Design and Development
Expand your design, artistic and technical skills creating modern games and interactive projects on a variety of platforms including Unreal.
CRICOS 095346K
Full time Part time Accelerated
Sydney Online
Online On campus Blended
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Bachelor of Game Programming
Bachelor of Game Programming
Learn game theory and the programming skills required to create commercially viable games, collaborating with artists and environmental designers.
CRICOS 119221K
Full time Part time Accelerated
Online Sydney
Online On campus Blended
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      Why study with us?

Billy Blue College of Design brings a fresh approach to higher education, with employability at the centre of everything we do. We offer industry-relevant Game Design, Development and Programming courses in Sydney and online taught by leading game design experts. Our flexible online, on-campus and blended study options, personalised approach and industry placements will help you find a career you love.
Tarik Tabet
As a lifelong gamer I asked myself, ‘Why not make games?’ Torrens University offers the opportunity to make games for Sony Playstation, which played a huge part in my decision.
Tarik Tabet
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Your teachers and academics

At Billy Blue all academic staff are leading design professionals who have industry experience, valuable contacts and stories that connect you straight to the design industry.

Professor Agnes Bosanquet - Dean of Design
Professor
Agnes Bosanquet
Dean of Design, Billy Blue College of Design
Agnes Bosanquet is an academic developer and higher education researcher. She has over 20 years of experience teaching in face-to-face, blended and online learning environments. Her collaborative research focusses on critical university studies and changing academic roles and identities.

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Jacqui Casey | Author | Torrens University
Jacqui Casey
Program Director, Creative Technology
Jacqui has worked in the design industry for 15+ years. Her experience covers a broad range of design disciplines, collaborating on and executing projects with not-for-profit organisations, small businesses and individual clients. Her expertise lies in Work Integrated Learning, ensuring that students are holistically equipped with knowledge, technical and soft skills, ready for industry and beyond, whether demonstrated through internships or live client briefs within the classroom.

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Dan Staines
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Dan Staines
Senior Learning Facilitator (Course Coordinator)
Dr Dan Staines is a games scholar who has been making and writing about games for more than twenty years. Upon completing his PhD in 2016, Dan spent two years completing a post-doc at Concordia University in Montreal, where he worked with a small team of students to produce an interactive novel designed to provoke ethical discomfort. Since then, Dan has continued to focus on his teaching and research interests, which include designing games for ethical education, game design patterns, and meta-game retention/reward systems.

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Dr
Mifrah Ahmad
Senior Learning Facilitator, Game Design and Development
Dr. Mifrah (AFHEA), is currently involved as a Senior lecturer at Torrens University in Games Design and Development and has taught across multiple schools of design, IT, and business. Initially, she taught across faculties since 2013 (Malaysia), enabling her to bring a sense of adaptive, transformative, and experiential learning across disciplines and schools. Her focus of research involves unpacking educational game design through a software lens and recently, it has refocused a more educational view of ‘experiential learning’ across games and educational game design processes. She has numerous published conferences, journals, book chapters, and a book; to outreach communities with research interest in bridging education and game design through qualitative and participatory research approaches.

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You decide where to study. We have campuses in central locations across Australia.

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1- 37 Foveaux Street Surry Hills NSW 2010 (Entrance to Campus is via 17 Foveaux Street Surry Hills)
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STUDENT SERVICES HOURS

Monday to Friday: 7.30am–5.00pm
Saturday: 8.00am–3.00pm
Public holidays: Closed

Hours during trimester breaks:
Monday to Friday: 8am–5pm
Weekend and Public holidays: Closed

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