Diploma in Advanced Game Development

Bow Valley College Centre For Entertainment Arts

Canada,Alberta

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24 Months

Duration

CAD 33,876/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 140

Application Fee

Sep 2025

Apply Date

Canada, Alberta

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1965

Total Students: 15,000 +

Int. Students: 1,500 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

345 6 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 4V1, Canada

Diploma in Advanced Game Development

Program Overview

Advanced Game Development is a full-time, two-year program comprised of industry-level courses covering game development’s core disciplines: art, design, programming, and production. Students will create various assignments, projects and games that will be assembled into a portfolio that is fit for working in the games industry.

Complete junior and industry-quality live action and full computer graphic (CG) shots. Apply practical lighting techniques within a full CG environment, film practical footage using industry-standard data acquisition, green screen, cinematography techniques, and fundamentals. Integrate student-crafted CG assets and animation into live-action plates and games. Design mechanics produce beautiful art and program functionality for over a dozen games and prototypes. Work under tight creative and time constraints to make your ideas into reality by producing engaging and interactive games.

Software and hardware taught and provided to students during this program:

  • Unity Engine
  • Unreal Engine
  • Visual Studio
  • C#
  • Machinations
  • Maya
  • Houdini
  • Marmoset Toolbag 3
  • Substance Painter
  • Substance Designer
  • Sketchfab
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe XD
  • Git
  • Perforce
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • MS Office