Full Sail University

Study Games

Design, develop, or create art for games.

Whether it's creating lifelike landscapes, designing levels and stories, or writing the coding that brings everything together, Full Sail University has distinct gaming programs to prepare you to enter the gaming industry. 

You will learn a specialized curriculum focusing on the needs of the gaming industry, while collaborating with peers to create games from start to finish.

Visual Arts Bachelor of Science Completion Program with a Game Art Concentration — Campus & Online

Students focus on 3D art and content creation, with a heavy emphasis on character development, shading and lighting, texturing, and modeling.

Degree Courses Include:

  • Motion Capture - Students learn techniques to digitize motion, edit sequences, and develop an understanding of simulated motion while exploring motion-capture setup, shooting, data tracking, and animation correction and enhancement.
  • Level Assembly & Lighting - This course continues to expand students' understanding of game requirements with a focus on constructing a playable level.
  • Game Animation - Students have their first opportunity to produce animated sequences for gameplay, developing an overall understanding of animation as it applies to the game industry with a focus on game-engine constraints and requirements.
  • Motion Capture
  • Level Assembly & Lighting
  • Game Animation

Game Business & Esports Bachelor's Degree — Campus & Online

The Game Business & Esports bachelor’s of science focuses on the business side of gaming, the revenue-generating, community-building, strategic-planning engine that propels the industry forward.

Courses Include:

  • Game Business Models - Learn about the ways gaming and esports organizations operate, how publishing and licensing works, and what it takes to develop revenue streams in gaming.
  • Esports and Gaming Management - Develop skills in performance management, team management, and leadership in an esports environment while getting familiar with different team structures and corporate cultures.
  • Gaming Culture & Engagement - Identify segments in the gaming market, ways to reach target audiences, and how the industry has welcomed new styles of gameplay and community engagement.
  • Game Business Models
  • Esports and Gaming Management
  • Gaming Culture & Engagement

Interactive Technology Bachelor of Science Completion Program with a Game Design Concentration — Campus & Online

Students learn production processes used by today's studios to design and produce games, while studying the building blocks of narrative design.

Courses Include:

  • Scripting for Designers - This course focuses on more intermediate topics in computer science, such as algorithms, objects and classes, and testing and debugging.
  • Game Design Preproduction - This course requires students to collaborate as they would in a professional game development environment, working in teams to document and develop a gameplay prototype.
  • Game Systems Integration - Students will work in teams to take an existing game that is partially completed and iterate on its development.
  • Scripting for Designers
  • Game Design Preproduction
  • Game Systems Integration

Game Development Bachelor's — Campus & Online

Students are taught the skills necessary to develop and program single and multiplayer video games for gaming consoles, personal computers, and networks.

Degree Courses Include:

  • Artificial Intelligence - Students learn techniques for designing intelligent behaviors and creating lifelike behaviors in characters in order to provide realism, and computer opponents that continue to challenge players even after repeated gameplay.
  • Engine Development - This course emphasizes debugging, development of problem solving skills, reading and understanding pre-written code, requirements analysis, and working toward being a better software engineer upon graduation.
  • Data Structure and Algorithms - Students learn how fundamental data structures and algorithms function and are implemented while also learning about managing complexity, linked structures, abstraction, analysis, vectors, lists, and more.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Engine Development
  • Data Structure and Algorithms

Our Florida Campus

- Winter Park, Florida -

Expansive 210+ acre campus · 110+ studios and collaborative production environments · Professional-level recording and game studios · Spacious Hollywood-style back lot · Multiple live venues which host events, concerts, and more.

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