Game Design & Development courses and degrees

Game Design and Development courses 

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

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What is a Game Design and Development 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. Video game design courses also cover ethical game design and its impact on the industry, within the context of commercial awareness.

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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 leading AAA studios around the world.
Master industry-standard software
Australia’s only Higher Education PlayStation® First Academic Development Program. 
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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.

Diploma of Game Design and Development
This course introduces the essentials of game theory, game production, visual design and illustration.
CRICOS 102263F
Full time Part time Accelerated
Sydney Online
Online On campus Blended
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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 Playstation.
CRICOS 095346K
Full time Part time Accelerated
Sydney Online
Online On campus Blended
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Bachelor of Software Engineering (Game Programming)
Learn game theory and the programming skills required to create commercially viable games, collaborating with artists and environmental designers.
Full time Part time Accelerated
Online
Online
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Why study with us?

As the country’s fastest-growing university, Torrens University Australia brings a fresh approach to higher education. With employability at the centre of everything we do, we offer industry-relevant Game Design and Development courses in Sydney and Melbourne taught by leading game deisgn experts. Our flexible online, on-campus and blended study options, personalised approach and industry placements will help you find a career you love.

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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.
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Bachelor of Software Engineering (Game Programming)
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Your Success Coach team is available to assist you throughout your first year, building your soft skills and developing your talents, preparing you for your academic journey.
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Love the way you learn
Our fresh approach to teaching allows you to explore your passion.
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Learn from industry-connected experts
Our academics are the best in the business. With their expertise and guidance, you can find a placement in the field you love.

Your teachers and academics

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

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Professor
Tony Jan
Director Research AIRO
Tony holds a PhD in machine learning in network security and a bachelor's in computer engineering, and has been responsible for the accreditation of prominent IT education programs across Australia. With more than 20 years of senior academic leadership experience in the Australian university sector, Tony is a certified senior member of the Australian Computer Society and the ACS accreditation review board. He serves as associate editor for a number of journals and has published more than 60 articles and conference proceedings related to AI, cybersecurity and industry 4.0, supported by a number of ARC Discovery Projects and industry-sponsored research projects.

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Nandini Sidnal
Program Director
Nandini holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, a Master's and Bachelor's in computer science and Engineering(CSE). She has more than 20 years of teaching experience ( Australia and Overseas) for postgraduate and undergraduate courses in CSE, Info systems, and Networking. She has held various leadership roles in education sector.She is an active reviewer for many technical journals and has around 40 publications. She has supervised four PhD scholars in Big Data Analytics, Edge Computing, Semantic and Cognitive Computing areas. She is adept in developing quality learning materials for the blended learning environment, delivering effective classroom and lab instructions through active learning methodology.

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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.

Torrens University Surry Hills campus in Sydney
Surry Hills, Central Sydney campus
Design and Creative Technology, Health, Business and Hospitality

1- 37 Foveaux Street
Surry Hills NSW 2010
(Entrance to Campus is via 17 Foveaux Street Surry Hills)
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Flinders Street campus

Design and Creative Technology, Health, Business, Hospitality, English Language Centre

196 Flinders Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000

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Fortitude Valley Campus Brisbane Queensland | Torrens University Australia
Fortitude Valley campus

Design and Creative Technology, Health, Business, Hospitality, English Language Centre

90 Bowen Terrace
Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006

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