Your learning experience

SAE has implemented a remote flexible learning option for current and future students. The range of tools developed by SAE will not only allow students to collaborate online but also gain experience in remote working practices widely used within the creative industries.

From day one you'll start creating on the latest software and equipment, under the guidance of expert lectures. 

• Study in a collaborative, studio-based environment.
• Use industry-standard middleware and development packages such as Unreal Engine and Unity.
• Learn as part of a small class.
• Learn from lecturers with extensive game experience and industry connections.
• Apply industry-standard project management methodologies throughout your studies.

Diploma of Game Development

The Diploma of Game Development has a strong practical focus, underpinned by key theoretical components. The course content is informed by our strong links to industry and our 40-year history in designing and teaching creative media courses.

To complement your technical skills, you will graduate with skills across:

• Employability skills specific to creative media.  
• Communication, including how to communicate specialist technical and creative ideas and perspectives in the graphic design discipline to others.
• Introductory project management and different project management methodologies
• Teamwork and collaboration in the context of creative media.
• Scholarly techniques for higher education.

Upon completion you will be eligible for up to 80 credit points towards either the Bachelor of Games Development (Game Design) or Bachelor of Games Development (Game Programming).

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You will learn

During your course you will gain an introduction to:

• Basic game functionality including using data manipulation, formulas, object creation, defining of behaviour and working with event systems.  
• Different forms of communication such as iconography, visual and aural cues, graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and layouts.
• Industry standard methods for the construction of functional game levels and modification of game assets.
• Principles of spatial layout for achieving game design goals via impacting player behaviour.
• Instructional design and user experience design to achieve game design goals.
• Programmatic solutions to pre-defined game behaviours and interactions in an appropriate middleware package.
• Tools and techniques used in construction and implementation of common game assets and features.
• How to write a Technical Design Document (TDD).
• The impact of altering and manipulating existing games and systems to generate alternate player experiences.
• Game deconstruction.
• The differences and commonalities between digital and analogue games.