The world of gaming is fascinating, exhilarating and a lot of fun. And there's more! It also offers a professionally lucrative career in store for the diligent and creative game designer who can think outside the box. What makes it visually appealing is the professional game developer who brings together the best of concepts and effects. Era University's Game Design & Development program launches your successful career as a game developer.
Game Designing is the phase where the entire design along with the initial framework of the game is conceptualised where as Game Development is the phase where the game designer’s ideas are transformed and shaped into an actual game.
The PG Diploma Program in Game design and Development at Era University is a 1-year, full-time program that provides extensive knowledge in programming, which helps students to build highly functional products. The program offers knowledge that focuses on game building, thus enabling students to build cross-platform products and also trains them to work with Game Engines to develop high quality games.
Students learn in a linear fashion, from the fundamentals to specialised practice, using a variety of instructional modalities. In addition to regular classroom sessions, they also participate in seminars, workshops and interactive sessions hosted by renowned industry leaders, as well as enjoy outdoor learning sessions. The program brings together the skills of Game Art, Game Design, and Game Development, giving students more opportunities of career building.
The curriculum combines the abilities of game art, game design, and game development and prepares students for exciting careers as Game Programmers, AI/UI Programmers, Tool Developers, Level Designers, and much more. It provides an all-round knowledge from traditional art to digital art (2D & 3D), various techniques employed in game art, game design principles, and programming games for various platforms.
Minimum eligibility to apply to the program is 10+2 in any stream with at least 50% aggregate score.
1 year
As a PG Diploma Game Design & Development professional there are wide career opportunities in Mobile, PC, and Console Game Development companies and game development training firms as a:
Some other roles could be:
As a PG Diploma Game Design & Development professional there are wide career opportunities in Mobile, PC, and Console Game Development companies and game development training firms as a:
Some other roles could be:
Programming Languages: Core skills of computer programming Languages like C++, Adv C++, C# & .Net Framework
Game Engine Programming: Game Engine programming with Unity 3D basic and advanced modules along with Unreal game engines by industry develop games
Graphic Programming: Graphic Programming IDEs like OpenGL and DirectX to develop and build video games.
Principles of Game Design: Game design principles and requirements, feature analysis and what makes a game fun to play.
Students get trained to work on nearly all aspects of Game Design and Development, Storyboarding, Level Design, texturing & materials, programming, terrain, physics, animation, 2D & 3D rendering, and user interface, among others.