Name: Advanced Game Development
Brand: Advanced Game Development

About

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Advanced Game Development is a full-time, two-year program covering the core disciplines of game development: art, design, programming, and production. You’ll create assignments, projects, and games that come together in a professional portfolio ready for the games industry.

You’ll gain hands-on experience completing junior- and industry-quality live-action and CG shots, applying practical lighting techniques, capturing footage with green screen and cinematography methods, and integrating your CG assets and animation into live-action plates and games. You’ll design mechanics, create stunning art, program functionality, and work under real-world creative and time constraints to turn your ideas into engaging, interactive experiences.

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

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Admission requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent, or

English 30-1, English 30-2 or equivalent, or

Satisfactory results on the Bow Valley College Admission and Placement Test

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Portfolio submission of 15-20 pieces of artistic/technical work (e.g., sketches, renderings, games, design variations, code snippets) in digital format. The portfolio should showcase the applicant’s proficiency in digital design software, creativity, artistic range, and/or technical ability. Portfolios should reflect the applicant’s personal artistic interests and identity. Successful applicant portfolios will reflect a broad range of techniques, influences, styles, and subject matter. Submissions must represent the original work of the applicant; if an item is a collaborative piece, list all contributors and describe your contribution.

If you have questions or would like an informal pre-assessment of your portfolio, please email ceaportfolio@bowvalleycollege.ca. Watch this video for more information.

*Students who do not have adequate samples for the portfolio submission may wish to enroll in the Foundation in Entertainment Arts Certificate before pursuing a diploma.

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Tuition and fees

Term

Tuition fees

Additional fees

Total fees*

Term 1

$6,060

$605

$6,665

Term 2

$6,060

$564

$6,624

Term 3

$6,060

$564

$6,624

Term 4

$6,060

$605

$6,665

Term 5

$6,060

$564

$6,624

Term 6

$8,649

$564

$9,213

Estimated total tuition:

total cost

Term

Tuition fees

Additional fees

Total fees*

Term 1

$10,468

$605

$11,073

Term 2

$10,468

$564

$11,032

Term 3

$10,468

$564

$11,032

Term 4

$10,468

$605

$11,073

Term 5

$10,468

$564

$11,032

Term 6

$15,931

$564

$16,495

Estimated total tuition:

total cost

*All tuition and fees are subject to change. Program tuitions are estimates only. Your actual tuition and fees are calculated on actual course registrations and can be viewed under "Statement of Account" in MyBVC or by requesting a Statement of Account from Registrar Services.

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