劳里埃大学

Want to change the world through games? Our Game Design and Development program will help you develop the tools to create tabletop and digital games that transform and motivate players in areas like education, health care, journalism and social justice.

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.

Program Highlights

This innovative program allows you to get a university degree while learning practical skills from Conestoga College, delivered right in Brantford.

Working with Laurier’s LaunchPad program, you'll create and use games and game-based experiences to solve problems in collaboration with local commercial, industrial, academic, cultural or social organizations.

Sample Courses

• Using Games to Change the World
• Analog Gaming and Interactivity
• Introduction to Interactivity
• Designing Digital and Social Media
• Ethics in Gaming
• Escape Room and Puzzle Design

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:

• Leadership Option/Minor
• Business Technology Management Option
• Psychology Minor
• Youth and Children's Studies Minor
• Professional Writing Minor
• User Experience Design specialization

SAMPLE CAREER OPTIONS

This program will introduce you to all of the skills necessary to conceptualize, create, adapt and promote a game, and use games to create transformations in the social and cultural spaces they inhabit. Graduates will be well positioned to communicate across the spectrum of gaming professions and understand the unique contributions brought by programmers, designers, storyboard artists, editors and more.

• application designer
• corporate trainer
• design director
• educational/training game designer
• game designer
• game developer
• game producer
• game reviewer
• game system designer
• game writer
• gamification developer
• indie game entrepreneur
• project manager
• simulation and experiential learning designer
• simulation developer
• technical director
• user interface developer