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Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
Want to create play with a purpose? Our Game Design and Development program will help you learn to communicate through playful experiences such as analog and digital games. Through play, today’s designers can explore social, cultural, and environmental issues while innovating on and challenging the conventions and assumptions embedded in existing games. You will create gameplay that pushes the medium forward, exploring, expanding, and innovating how games engage players, share experiences, and transform lives.
While you will learn some programming, art and sound design, your focus is on the technical and creative writing required for the design of games and developing essential soft skills applicable in many careers.
Program Highlights
- You will develop your creativity and critical thinking skills as you work individually and collaboratively with various tools, technologies, and stakeholders to develop a game from concept to end product.
- Explore our graduating student portfolios.
Sample Courses
- Games as Art
- Critical Game Design
- Meaningful Interactions
- Web Game Development
- Ethics in Game Design
- Escape Room and Puzzle Design
- Gamification and Gameful Design
Admission Requirements
We encourage applicants of all academic backgrounds to apply.
Ontario High School Curriculum
- Minimum admission range: low 70s.
- Competitive admission range, based on last year’s admitted students: low 80s.
- English at 70%.
Other Curriculums
Visit our admission requirements section to find specific requirements for international curriculums, other Canadian curriculums, transfer students and more.
Design Your Degree
These are a few popular academic opportunities which allow you to dive deeper into your major area of study or broaden your knowledge and prepare for a wider variety of careers:
- User Experience Design specialization
- Professional Writing Minor
- Leadership Option/Minor
- Business Technology Management Option
- Psychology Minor
- Youth and Children's Studies Minor
Check out other options to enhance your degree.
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