Game Development (Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours)

Specialise in game development for your bachelor of screen arts with honours at massey. Encompassing a broad range of disciplines, including game design, art, audio, coding, and production. 

Game development is a field that truly embraces interactive screen media.

• You will develop skills in critical thinking, logic, design, 3D modelling and texturing, animation, and team-based production while building fun, engaging, and challenging worlds, experiences, and adventures.
• You’ll be ideating, designing, and developing games. Using industry-standard software and real time engines and techniques, you'll will work through game design, art and aesthetics and programming to create unique and original experiences for desktop, console and mobile platforms.

Facilities

• You’ll have access to top-of-the-line computing, consoles, VR/AR devices and work with industry standard software.

Planning information

• Full-time study is recommended. You’ll take 120 credits per year or 60 credits per semester.

About this major

• The Game Development major in the Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours consists of 180 credits.

Minors

• Completing a minor is optional and may be a way for you to show the breadth of your degree.
• A minor must be in a different subject from your major and be made up of at least 60 credits.
• If you’re interested in doing a minor you should contact us using the Get advice button on this page. Our student advice team will be able to talk you through your options and help you plan your degree.

Official regulations

• To understand what you need to study and must complete to graduate read the official rules and regulations for this qualification.
• You should read these together with all other relevant Statutes and Regulations of the University including the General Regulations for Undergraduate Degrees, Undergraduate Diplomas, Undergraduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas and Graduate Certificates.

Returning students

• For returning students, there may be changes to the majors and minors available and the courses you need to take. Go to the section called ‘Transitional Provisions’ in the Regulations to find out more.
• In some cases the qualification or specialisation you enrolled in may be no longer be taking new enrolments, so may not appear on these web pages. To find information on the regulations for these qualifications go to the Massey University Calendar.

Course planning key

• Prerequisites Courses that need to be completed before moving onto a course at the next level. For example, a lot of 200-level courses have 100-level prerequisite courses.
• Corequisites Courses that must be completed at the same time as another course are known as corequisite courses.
• Restrictions Some courses are restricted against each other because their content is similar. This means you can only choose one of the offered courses to study and credit to your qualification.

Core courses for the Bachelor of Screen Arts with Honours

• As well as the specialisation courses listed below, this qualification has core courses that you will need to complete.

Careers and job opportunities

• Technical game designer, quality assurance, technical artist, game AI engineer, Unreal engineer, game programmer, game designer, game writer, narrative designer, tools specialist, UI/UX designer.

International students

• New Zealand is a great place to study. Massey University’s reputation is supported by our international rankings, accreditations and associations. We are rated 5-star plus by the QS World University Rankings.

Massey University has small class sizes, and our lecturers and staff are friendly and approachable.

• As an international student, there are entry requirements that will apply to you. We recommend that you apply at least three months before your anticipated start date so your application can be processed in time. There are additional steps you will need to take. These include obtaining a visa and travel bookings if your study is to be in New Zealand.