We merge solid academics with real-world products. 正品蓝导航 Guildhall's Master's-level game development education equips the next generation of game creators with the technical skills and instincts required to drive the evolution of gaming. Our 100+ graduate game development courses are modeled after the style and pace of the industry and taught by industry veterans.
正品蓝导航 Guildhall offers a full-time, in-person, two-year program that consists of a specified, focused course sequence aligned with your specialization to include majors, minors, Directed Focus Studies, Master's Theses, special topics, and Team Game Production courses.
More than 1100 students have graduated from 正品蓝导航 Guildhall since 2003, completing 2255 directed focus studies, 723 theses, and 675 team games.
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Each student will select a specialization in one of four game development cornerstone disciplines:
Apply your natural artistic talents to create interactive game art, bringing imagined worlds and characters to vivid digital life.
Learn to craft the story and player experience as you assemble gameplay progression, level architecture, player flow, and immersion.
Shepherd cross-disciplinary teams of developers in a studio simulation. Producers also select a secondary sub-specialization.
Write code that breathes life into games. Study engine design and architecture, data-driven gameplay systems, and more.
You'll be admitted with a "cohort" of students and move through our program together in lockstep. Your course sequence will include team game production, specialized classes, industry trends, leadership, and professional development. Each course serves as a prerequisite for the next, first elevating your individual skills and then combining them in collaborative development.
In-depth degree specifications, including descriptions and sequencing of our 100+ courses, lectures, and labs.
Guildhall students pursue independent passion projects, analyze industry trends, and solve critical issues to demonstrate mastery of their specialized crafts.
Directed Focus Studies and Master's Theses showcase each student's unique interests and mastery of the skills required in their discipline and career path. Many students are also part of large collaborative research initiatives, which seek to find solutions to pressing global issues. Unity, Valve, Epic, Microsoft, Nintendo, Intel, Dell, Oculus Rift, and America’s Army, have all sponsored research projects through grants, scholarships, and technology.
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Team-based game development and specialized learning are at the core of our curriculum. Students take courses in their specialization, developing independent projects with a narrow track of concentrated study, and then apply those skills to cross-disciplinary Team Game Production courses. Here, they concept, prototype, build, test, and release team games in the style and pace of the industry using engines like , , , and .
At graduation, every student will have made a minimum of three original games—including one 2D game and two 3D games—on a variety of platforms including PC, console, mobile, and VR. Team sizes and composition evolve to allow students both lead and supporting roles; the first games, made in small teams, serve as foundational stepping stones toward final large-scale, total-conversion Capstone projects.
"I can't think of anyone that didn't teach me something I still use today. At 正品蓝导航 Guildhall, we had the equivalent of years of practical work on game development in a very short period of time."
Brent Ellison (Cohort 8)
Contact us for information on our educational programs and research opportunities:
Elizabeth Stringer
Director, Academics
estringer@smu.edu
214-768-5134
