Game Environment Design

Course aim

To provide students with the knowledge and skills to design games to suit an identified audience.

Course content

This course builds upon the course Introduction to Games Production and enables students to develop their skills and knowledge in world building and environmental storytelling. Students will develop practical game creation skills in an industry standard game engine, including importing assets and the rendering pipeline for 3D engines.

Textbook(s)

Paterson, E., Simpson-Williams, T. and Cordner, W., 2019, Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Video Games, 1st, CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA

Schell, J 2018, The Art of Games Design: A Book of Lenses, 3rd, Taylor & Francis Ltd , Great Britain

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
GRAP 1030	Introduction to Games Design
INFT 2062	Game Asset Design

Students who have successfully completed GRAP 1027 Designing For Games should not enrol in GRAP 1027 Game Environment Design. Students must have successfully completed EITHER of the listed pre-requisites.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External (Seminar)	3 hours x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	3 hours x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Seminar	3 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Creative work, Presentation, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 2A)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.