Program Streams

Careers By Stream

Game Design
    •    Game Designer
    •    Writer/Narrative Designer
    •    Systems Designer
    •    Level Designer

Music & Sound Design
    •    Sound/Audio Designer
    •    Sound/Audio Manager
    •    Composer

All Streams
    •    Project Manager
    •    QA (Quality Assurance) Manager
    •    Producer

Game Art
    •    Concept Artist
    •    UI/UX Designer
    •    Technical Artist
    •    Environment Artist

Software Development
    •    Gameplay Programmer
    •    Game Developers
    •    Frontend/Backend Web Developer
    •    Software Engineer

 

  

 

Game Design, Game Art, Music + Sound Design, Software Development

Choose from these 4 study streams

TWU’s Game Development Program offers four study streams. Which stream is right for you?

The world-builder

You’re a creative and narrative artist. You love to give form to systems and breathe life into the imaginary worlds, characters, places, and plots everyone wants to interact with.

What’s my stream?

Game Design: learn how to design, structure and write narrative and dialogue, and do public relations, blogging and community management for video games.

The Artist

Design is your life. So is learning how to create amazing, memorable-looking game worlds—including the websites and materials that promote them to the world.

What’s my stream?

Game Art: learn to design and implement artwork and animation for video games and create supporting publicity materials like promotional websites.

The maestro

Passionate about music and sound, you love to play around with digital technology to create dynamic sound environments. You believe the best gaming experience is an immersive one.

What’s my stream?

Music + Sound Design: learn how to compose and create the sound environments and soundtracks of game worlds.

The Coder

You’re a technical thinker, you love working with machines, and you’re passionate about programming. You’re looking for the chance to put it all together as part of a diverse team.

What’s my stream?

Software Development: learn to program and design video game software.

Study Streams

A. Game Design: Students learn how to design games, and combine that with the study of writing, art, sound design, programming or business.

 

Course Sampling:

  • Game Design for Video Games
  • Advanced Game Design
  • Interactive Storytelling
  • Creative Writing
  • User Experience Design
  • Video Game Aesthetics
 B. Game Art: Students learn to design and implement artwork and animation for video games and create supporting publicity materials like promotional websites.

 

Course Sampling:

  • Foundations of Animation
  • Foundations of 3D Graphics
  • Video Game Art
  • Advanced Animation
  • User Experience Design
  • Video Game Aesthetics
C. Music + Sound Design: Students learn how to compose and create the sound environments and soundtracks of game worlds.

 

Course Sampling:

  • Sound + Music for Video Games
  • Sound Design
  • Advanced Sound Design
  • Interactive Sound Design
  • User Experience Design
  • Video Game Aesthetics
 D. Software Development: Students learn to program and design video game software.

 

Course Sampling:

  • Intro into Programming
  • Data Structures + Algorithms
  • Software Engineering
  • Game Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence for Games
  • User Experience Design