Picture Yourself:
Become a Game Designer in One Year
Picture Yourself Living In Vancouver, Canada
Culture. Creativity. Connections. The Vancouver area isn’t just beautiful, it’s a place that cultivates talent, friendships, and relationships within the gaming industry. From the trails of Grouse Mountain to the nightlife of Granville Street to the canvases of game developers, Vancouver is the place to take the next step in your career as a video game designer.
Picture This:
Six Terms. One Goal.
Picture Your Dream Job
With graduates from Vancouver Film School bringing some of the most compelling and entertaining titles to life, you’re in good company. Find your own journey, whether it’s your own indie start-up or in a role at a AAA developer. The choice is yours.
Picture Your
Career In Only
One Year
The intensive game design program at Vancouver Film School is structured to deliver the skills and talent you need in just one short year. Learn from industry insider instructors, work with the tools you’ll use in the real work, and build projects that give you the experience you need to take your next step in game design.
Picture Making
Great Connections
For Your Future
At VFS you get more than an education in game design, you get to be part of the VFS alumni family. From our Pitch and Play events where you’ll launch your final project to actual gaming industry members to the connections you’ll make with VFS graduates both in your class and beyond, the game design program sets you up for success.
Establish fundamental skills with video game courses in game theory, pre-production techniques, and storytelling. Engage with basic visual design principles, level design, and coding.
Term
1
Establish fundamental skills in game theory, pre-production techniques, and storytelling. Engage with basic visual design principles, level design, and coding.
Term
2
Shift from theoretical to practical with hands-on work on detailed design documentation and front-end interfaces. Start your chosen specialization.
Term
3
Expand your role as a designer with online multiplayer design. The core part of this term is dedicated to designing and planning a major team-based final project.
Term
4
Concentrate fully on the game production cycle. Conceive, plan, and execute a final project that delivers a rewarding interactive experience: in short you’re going to make a game.
Term
5
Engage with ongoing play-testing and complete your final project. Develop your presentation skills to prepare for unveiling your work to the industry.
Term
6
Industry Night: Pitch + Play
Towards the end of your year in Game Design, you will complete your team-based final project and pitch it to an invite-only audience of professional game designers and industry recruiters from 30 to 40 companies.
Alumni Success Stories
Vancouver Film School grads are some of the most successful professionals in the Video Game industry. Take a moment to browse some of their amazing accomplishments and achievements within the industry.
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Shadi Dadenji — Technical Designer
Mortal Kombat X
Melissa Borda — Associate Producer
Marvel Contest Of Champions
Waylon Snedker — Game Designer
Tim Molyneux — Game Designer
Thomas McLain — Game Designer
Shane O'Connor — Game Designer
FIFA 14
Garrett Metcalf — Senior Quality Assurance Tester
Ignacio Vallejo — QA
Luc Labelle — Lead QA Analyst
Matheus Pitillo — QA
Melissa Stacey — QA Team Lead
Noushin Bardi-Chaharmahali — Assistant Test Coordinator
Company of Heroes 2
Andres Molina — Technical and Campaign Designer
Karl Buckley — Senior Surfacing Artist
Lance Mueller — Associate Designer
Maxwell Hannaman — Associate Designer
Prototype 2
Grayson Scantlebury — Design Scripter
Kevin Maloney — Design Scripter
Miko Wilson — Mission Designer
Scott Morin — Design/Scripter
Sleeping Dogs
13 grads from Game Design worked on Sleeping Dogs.
Resident Evil: Raccoon City
Chris Lee — Game Designer
Darryl Spratt — Design Support
Nguyen Tran — Mission Scripter
SSX
Elliott Walton — Level Designer
Gord Cooper — Designer
Harold Hung — Level Designer
Landon Nguyen — Designer
Scott Morin — Designer/Scripter
NHL 14
Ching-Chien (Jack) Lin — Software Engineer
Clayton Paakspuu — QA Tester
Halo 4
Armando Troisi — Narrative Director
Cory Hasselbach — Mission Designer
Paul Parsons — Senior Sandbox Designer
ModNation Racers
Brennan Massicotte — Artist
Chris Savory — Dev Support
Nick Letizia — Game Designer
Mass Effect 3
Corey Gaspur — Lead Gameplay Designer
Samuel Irwin — Cinematic Designer
Luc Labelle — Designer
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
Billy Lind — Dev. Support
Brock Robin — Game Designer
Chris Savory — Dev. Support
Clinton Ma — Development Tester
Francois Chaput — Mission Designer
Joey Song — Development Tester
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Tyler Hitchings — Associate Writer
Samuel Irwin — Cinematic Designer
Need for Speed: World
Azlan Mustapha — Game Designer
Ted Carefoot — Project Manager
Mass Effect 2
Armando Troisi — Lead Cinematic Designer
Corey Gaspur — Gameplay/Systems Designer
Guilherme Ramos — Cinematic Designer
Kenneth Banadyga — QA Tester
Dead Rising 2
Adrian Audet — Assistant Producer
Boris Wong — Assistant Producer
Jeffrey Chang — QA
League of Legends
Jimmy Steorts — Associate Game Designer
Age of Empires: Age of Kings
Armando Troisi — Design Assistant
Chris Klein — Design Assistant
Ian Becking — Design Support
Specializations
Coding / Game Art / Level Design
The Path
To Your Career
Begins Now
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