Course details
Playing games is fun. Making games is fulfilling. Do you want to create games that can give people fun, engaging experiences?
From idea to concept to game design planning to game demo development, the game development process is challenging but very rewarding. Get closer to making your own original game in the Diploma in Games Design and Development (DGDD). This course will groom you to become a well-rounded entrepreneurial Game Designer, Level Designer, a 2D & 3D Game Artist… + Read More
Course details
Playing games is fun. Making games is fulfilling. Do you want to create games that can give people fun, engaging experiences?
From idea to concept to game design planning to game demo development, the game development process is challenging but very rewarding. Get closer to making your own original game in the Diploma in Games Design and Development (DGDD). This course will groom you to become a well-rounded entrepreneurial Game Designer, Level Designer, a 2D & 3D Game Artist or a Gameplay Programmer who can design and develop a game idea from conceptualisation to project proposal, from prototyping to production.
Course Highlights
- Exciting collaborations with industry partners, including game studios, research labs
- Learn to design and develop games on new game platforms such as iPad, Android tablets and motion-based input devices
- Studio environment which provides realistic team-based games development project experience
- Wide range of professional software and hardware support the learning process, and the development of game projects
- Track record of successful game projects, including published games, games for research, games for learning, and game installation projects
SUBJECT GRADE
- English Language (as 1st Lang) 1 - 7*
- Mathematics (Elementary / Additional) 1 - 6
- Any two other subjects 1 - 6
MODULE NAME
Common Foundation
- Communicating for Personal and Team Effectiveness
- Visual Arts Studio
- Foundation Design Studio
- Basic Drawing Class
- Graphic Communication
- History and Theory of Ideas 1
First Year
- General Education 1
- General Education 2
- History and Theory of Ideas 1
- Games Design & Development Studio 1
- Games Design Principles
- Perspective and Constructive Still-Life Drawing
- 2D Games Development
Second Year
- Scriptwriting for Games Design
- Social Innovation Project or Overseas Social Innovation Project
- General Education 3
- Games Design and Development Studio 2
- History and Theory of Idea 2
- 3D Games Development
- Human Computer Interface
- Life Drawing and Conceptual Digital Painting
- Games Production
- Audio and Music for Games
- 3D modelling and Animation
- Industrial Training Programme
Third Year
- Communicating for Project (Report) Effectiveness
- Games Design and Development Studio 3
- Ethics and Law of IT and Media
- Games Design for Education and Training
- Elective Module Option
Elective Module Option - Mathematics for Games (MS0151) will be made compulsory for students taking Game Design and Production (SD310Z) or Game Programming (SD311Z) elective modules.
- Mathematics for Games
- Game Art
- Game Design and Production
- Game Programming
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Singapore Polytechnic, the nation's first educational institution of its kind, was set up in 1954 to train technologists and professionals to support the industrialisation and economic development of Singapore. Since then, its development has paralleled the progress of modern Singapore. To date, graduate output from Singapore Polytechnic is close to 178,000, some of whom have gone on to become Parliamentarians, captains of industries, senior executives of multi-national corporations, and successful entrepreneurs and professionals in Singapore and overseas.
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