Love playing games? Become a game designer!
Griffith University
Like playing games?
Why not become a game designer!
Turning passion into endless learning motivation and creative passion,
will allow you to enjoy endless happiness along the way!
Did you know,game designer is one of the increasingly popular high-salary industries in recent years. According to the latest data from the Seek website, in Australia, the average annual salary of a game designer is between 90,000 and 110,000 Australian dollars.
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And Griffith University is an excellent training base for game designers.TheSims, Hand of Fate, Summoners War, behind such globally popular games, there are graduates from Griffith University's Bachelor of Games Design course!This time, we take you to see the style of these outstanding students.
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to enjoy the portfolio of GU game design students:
Aaron Winterhoff
Aaron serves as an art designer at the global gaming giant EA Games, the company has launched The Sims, Battlefield, and a series of very popular sports games.
After graduation, Aaron worked as a programmer and designer in Australia, developing games and applications for some small game merchants. His work caught the attention of EA Games, eventually becoming a member of their game design team.
Anna Zou
Anna has gained international recognition for her game design talent.She was selected for the famous '30 Under 30' list by Develop magazine in 2019, the list honors the most outstanding and talented game designers of the moment, and was included in the MCV Pacific Women in Games list.
Anna has served as a senior designer at Defiant Development and a story designer at A44 Games in New Zealand. She has participated in mission design and character writing for a series of games, including the best-selling Hand of Fate and Hand of Fate 2.
Ben Cooper
Ben Cooper and classmate Jamie Warden founded their own company Broken Specs after graduation,they developed two applications for children with learning difficulties and language disorders, in collaboration with speech pathologists.
Ben then joined Defiant Development as an environment and technical artist, where he participated in the behind-the-scenes development and production of many games, including the mobile version of Summoners War, the handheld game Hand of Fate, and The Tower of the Sorcerer.
Elliot Miller
Elliot Miller is a student with severe hearing loss experience, after completing the game design degree course, he created an application aimed at improving the lives of people with hearing impairments. Now,he is the founder of Australia's first auditory training tool, Hearoes.In the past year, Hearoes has been used more than 80,000 times.
Recently, Hearoes also won the Early Innovation Award at the Bionics Queensland Challenge and has collaborated with various organizations such as Queensland eHealth, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, and services for the hearing impaired.
Henrik Pettersson
Henrik Pettersson is the game director and game designer of The Gardens Between.This game has won more than 20 international awards, including the 2019 Apple Design Award, and was praised by The Guardian as a 'masterpiece'.
To realize his dream of becoming a game designer, Henrik traveled from Sweden to Australia to study at Griffith Film School. He has worked at The Voxel Agents and Night School Studio, and is currently developing a short science fiction adventure game.
Jarod Wall
Jarod Wall works at the large game company KIXEYE,this is an international game team with more than 650 people. As a programmer, he is responsible for large-scale multiplayer online real-time strategy games such as Vega Conflict, optimizing online and mobile gaming experiences for global players.
If you also want to become one of these successful game design elites,welcome to Griffith. Completing a game design degree here, you will open the future to becoming a game design master!
Griffith Film School is Australia's largest film school, offering high-quality game design degree courses. Here, you can participate in various campus exhibitions, guest lectures, master classes, and artist lectures, design game projects for real clients through our commercial multimedia production department LiveLab, or expand career opportunities through our strong industry relationship network.
At Griffith, you will unleash your creative talent with the help ofworld-class facilitiesand faculty teams.Our film school's faculty team includes top artists, designers, photographers, screen media creators, virtual production practitioners, and visual communicators.You will learn from leading designers in the Australian game design field, and also have the opportunity to collaborate with filmmakers and animators from Griffith Film School, illustrators, 3D designers, and artists from Queensland College of Art and Design, and musicians from Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium.
The game design industry combines art and technology, from character animation to behavioral algorithms, you need to master complex skills in multiple fields such as painting and IT.And our college is located in South Bank, Brisbane, a well-known arts and creative district, studying here, you can enjoy world-class art galleries, exhibition spaces, studios, etc.
After completing our Bachelor of Games Design course,you will be eligible to enroll in ourBachelor of Games Design (Honours) or various related postgraduate courses.
At the same time, you will have a wide range of potential career opportunities in the game field,specifically including:prop, environment, character designer, game, level, system or combat designer, gameplay programmer, 3D modeler, 2D or 3D animator or motion capture animator, etc.
In the first year, you will learn the broad basics of how to make popular games, such as: basic art skills, storytelling, storyboarding, cinematography, 3D modeling, human movement, game level design, computer interface issues, sound design, and the impact of games on society.
Then you will specialize in areas of interest in the second year.Optional majors are as follows: animation, art direction, computer-generated imagery, player experience, etc.
In the third year, you can start participating in capstone projects, exercising your practical skills in project teams, building your game projects, and contacting industry insiders to expand your industry network.
Course Information
Bachelor of Games Design
Bachelor of Games Design
Admission Information:
Campus: South Bank Campus
Tuition: 35,500 AUD/year (2024)
Duration: 3 years
Intake: February
English Requirements:
IELTS 6.5 (no band less than 6.0)
Admission Requirements:
· High school examination results reach 63% of the full score
· Or obtain a high school graduation certificate in China, and meet:
a. The average score of the third year of high school reaches 91 points or
b. Successfully complete a recognized foundation course or
c. Successfully complete the first year course of a recognized higher education institution
*International applicants need to submit a portfolio.
If the English requirement is not met temporarily, you can also enroll through the Direct Entry Program (DEP) of Griffith English Language Institute (GELI).
Website:
https://www.griffith.edu.au/study/degrees/bachelor-of-games-design-1338
