Indie Game Development MA (Online) | Master's degree | Computer Science & IT | Online/Distance | 2 years | Falmouth University | United Kingdom

On this course you’ll analyse the principles of the creative process, from ideation and design through to delivery and dissemination. You’ll integrate design tools, programming languages, game engines, as well as specialist middleware and frameworks into your game development practice. You’ll also examine business models used by indie games studios to explore your own startup opportunities. If you already have a business idea, our mentors will help you get it off the ground. You will: Apply the principles of design and creativity to generate fun and playful experiences Learn to use industry-standard platforms for making games and adapt to their technical constraints Apply primary and secondary research methods drawn from game studies and the broader design science literature Use methods from business and analytics to better understand how people engage with games and game companies Adopt both technical and arts perspectives as part of a design thinking process to deliver novel games Collaborate across disciplinary boundaries, an increasingly important skill in the games industry Practice game design across a range of application domains, including gamification and serious games Keep and control the Intellectual Property (IP) of any games you produce