Bachelor of Creative Arts (Game Design)

Game design at jmc provides the skills and knowledge to create fully immersive digital environments. Learn how to design, develop and implement an idea, with emphasis on creativity and expression through concept creation, digital drawing, environment modelling and game-engine implementation.

The video game industry is growing fast. The expertise and practices of game design + development is spilling over into a range of sectors, with design and development practices becoming widely adopted outside of purely gaming purposes.

Combine interactivity, game design and programming with traditional art practice and animation with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Game Design). Focus in what you are passionate about as you select from a list of primary and secondary streams to hone in on your skills. 

Add to your Game Design primary stream with a choice of 2D Animation, 3D animation, CG (Computer Generated) Art or Production Art for the opportunity to combine both technical knowledge and artistic practice as you build a professional portfolio. Immerse yourself in an exciting journey from concept to finished product through the magic of visual storytelling.

Why Study Game Design at JMC?

• Use the world's leading development platform for games and real-time content
• Take advantage of our 18-camera dedicated motion capture suites
• Study abroad in Tokyo and Osaka Japan, or the Netherlands 

Technology & Facilities

• We take gaming seriously at JMC, with each campus housing dedicated digital art + development studios with purpose built workstations, cintiq and intuos pro wacom tablets, non-digital art studio for prototyping, stopmotion, sculpting and life drawings, portable VR development suites, motion capture studios, Rokoko motion capture suits, 3D printers, green-screen cyclorama studio and mixing + recording studios.
• JMC uses a range of software including Unity Game Engine, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Creative Cloud, Pixologic Zbrush, Substance Suite, Foundry Suite with Nuke + Mari, Redshift GPU + Arnold CPU Renderer, Adobe Suite, Toon Boom Harmony with Unity middleware, Shotgun Studio and SourceTree.