Game Technology

Description

This English-programme prepares you for a career in the games industry. In 4 years' time, you will become a visual artist, programmer, designer, producer of AAA Games or indie game developer.

*Can you create a unique selling point for a game concept? *What is required to design and build the 3D art for the game 'Skyrim'? *How do you control enemy Al behaviour? Are you the programmer, the game designer, the visual artist or the technologist who knows the answers to these questions? Can you create the magic of new games? == Ambitious, practical and highly skilled == You are enthusiastic and passionate about game development. You are creative, have good drawing and computer skills, have a sense of aesthetics. You are work minded in a commercial way. Whether you work in the games industry or in related fields such as companies developing user interfaces or animations studios, working long hours is the rule rather than the exception.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 1906 Year (EEA)
• EUR 8369 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

Course Characteristics

In the International Game Architecture and Design programme, your creative, technological and commercial skills will be trained. In the development of games you will need to develop specific skills to make the right choices in content, design, graphics, storyline and audio.
During your four years of study you will work in the Game Lab. Together with your fellow students you will learn, practically, how to develop games. Throughout your studies the assignments become increasingly complex.

NHTV is official partner of Sony and is joining in the PlayStation®First Academic Partnership Programme. This means you are developing games for PlayStation 3 (PS3), PlayStation Portable (PSP) and PlayStation Network (PSN). PlayStation® hardware and software will take a central place in the teaching curriculum of this programme.

If you apply for the International Game Architecture and Design programme, the first choice you make is which variation you want to study in. You can choose from four variations:

• 3D Visual Art
• Programming
• Design and Production
• Indie Game Development

Educational vision

Educational outline

The four-year programme consists of four variations. Variations aside, you follow a shared general programme. This is a mixture of workshops and lectures, delivered by qualified (international) lecturers. The programme is fully taught in English.

Valuable practical experience

As the International Game Architecture and Design programme offers education in close collaboration with the games industry, it is highly practical. Guest lectures and field trips will be organised on a regular basis, and the placement and graduation project enable you to gain a total of twelve months practical experience in real-life, professional environments.

Game Lab

At the heart of the course is the Game Lab, a fully equipped development studio in which you work on real assignments from real clients. In a multi-disciplinary group of up to twelve students, you put your knowledge and skills into practice and develop your specialisation. Secured from the games industry, and in a real-life setting, you get to find out what game development is really all about.
Throughout the entire programme you will spend an average of one day per week working in the Game Lab. As you progress, the games you produce become increasingly complex.

Broad-based education and in-depth specialism

You choose your variation before you start studying. This means that you have enough time to get to know all aspects of the industry whilst you continuously deepen your knowledge and strengthen your skills. Towards the final terms, the content focuses on your chosen variation and the emphasis is on depth of knowledge.

Working together in groups in the Game Lab and the comprehensive nature of the curriculum ensures that this programme is unique in the Netherlands.

Lecturers

Distinctive feature 'quality of lecturers'

The national visitation committee of the NVAO has assessed the quality of the lecturers as excellent. The department succeeded very well in attracting inspiring and dedicated lecturers from the international industry. An efficient monitoring system and educational policy have been set up to ensure that the quality of teaching is preserved. Students experience their lecturers as inspiring and profound experts in their fields.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 CAE score : 60(Grade C) TOEFL paper-based test score : 550 TOEFL iBT® test : 80

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Requirements

Admission Requirements for Foreign Students

You can apply for this programme if you have completed secondary school, Abitur, Artium, Avgångsbetyg från Gymnasieskolan, COU, Senior High School - A levels or secondary vocational education.

If your qualifications are not mentioned above, please contact Student Office (international.office(at)nhtv.nl).

Test Of English as a Foreign Language

As a non-native speaker of English, you must also show sufficient results of one of these tests:

• TOEFL test (minimum score 80 internet-based and minimum sub score for Speaking 20)
• IELTS test (minimum overall band score 6.0 and a minimum sub score for Speaking 6.0)
• Cambridge Advanced Certificate

A levels

If your high school diploma is comparable with A levels you are exempted from taking the English test if you have English in your curriculum.

Brush up course - better results!

NHTV’s Online School offers an online course ('brush up' course) to increase your knowledge of math for students who are applying.

Admission requirements for Dutch students

For this programme, the admission requirements are:

havo

• N+T > admissible
• N+G > admissible
• E+M > admissible
• C+M > admissible

vwo

• N+T > admissible
• N+G > admissible
• E+M > admissible
• C+M > admissible

mbo

• mbo 4 > admissible

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Alumni Study Travel Fund

  Scholarships for students who are already attending the University of Reading.

• Amsterdam Merit Scholarships

  The University of Amsterdam aims to attract the world’s brightest students to its international classrooms. Outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship.

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences.

Funding

Scholarships / Grants:

NHTV:
NHTV Bachelor Scholarship supports non-EU/EEA students who will pay the full tuition fee for bachelor programmes at NHTV. This scholarship consists of a €3000 reduction of the tuition fee in the first year studying at NHTV (paying the non-EU/EEA tuition fee).
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NHTV Breda:
Per year there is a limited number of scholarships available for non-EU/EEA-students to contribute in the costs of the tuition fee.
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Nuffic:
The Orange Tulip Scholarship is a special programme for excellent Mexican students. Various higher education institutions and companies support outstanding Mexican students financially to be able to study in Holland.
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Nuffic:
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Accreditation

Accredited by: NVAO in: The Netherlands