UndergraduateComputer Science
Advanced Diploma of Game Design and Development
Torrens University Australia, Multi-campus, national, Australia
About this program
Built around three pillars (asset production, game ideation and design, and game project management), the course runs 10 core subjects plus two electives, each requiring around 10 hours of study a week with no formal exams.
Students work through 2D and 3D asset creation, game design principles and a first Unreal-Blueprints programming subject before moving into studio-based production units (Game Production Foundation, Rapid Game Prototype) that pair game-design students with game-programming students on shared cross-disciplinary briefs. A Serious Games subject and an animation/rigging subject round out the technical spread, with electives available from the design school's broader catalogue (branding, motion design, UX, architecture-adjacent subjects).
1.7 years full time (5 trimesters), or 1 year accelerated, with part-time options. Delivered on campus at Sydney and online.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 3 parts
- 2D Asset Creation
- Game Design Principles
- Game Programming I
- 3D Asset Creation
- Design Studio 1
- Game Production Foundation
- Animation
- Rapid Game Prototype
- Serious Games
- Advanced 3D Asset Creation
- Electives (choose two from): Animation Principles
- Digital Environments and Human Scale
- Principles of Structure
- Motion Design
- Interaction Design
- Design Studio 2
- 10 core subjects and 2 electives
- 5 trimesters1.7 years full time
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Admissions
Successful completion of at least 0.25 EFTSL at AQF level 6 or 0.5 EFTSL at AQF level 5 or above, or equivalent; OR an Australian secondary school certificate, equivalent Senior Secondary qualification, or Baccalaureate Diploma
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