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In the 2015-2016 academic year, the UPC will teach the first official bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development entirely in English
In the coming 2015-2016 academic year, the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre (CITM) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) will teach the first official bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development in Spain. Its content and teaching is entirely in English and it is taught in Barcelona. It was created to respond to the international market in which Spain’s growing video game and interactive applications industry operates. The sector anticipates a twofold increase in jobs and the creation of over 5,200 vacancies before 2017.
07/05/2015
Training in animation, digital art and video games at the UPC is becoming well established, with the creation of two official bachelor’s degrees in Video Game Design and Development. The first has been taught at the CITM on the UPC's Terrassa Campus since the 2014-2015 academic year, and the second is a newly established bachelor’s degree that will be taught entirely in English in Barcelona from the coming 2015-2016 academic year onwards. The UPC already has ample experience in this area, having taught the master's degree in Video Game Design and Creation, one of Europe's foremost educational programmes in this sector, for over 10 years.
The UPC is one of the European universities offering the most robust training in the video games field and multimedia industry: more than 400 students have been trained thanks to the experience of professionals from more than 30 professional studios, all with over five years of experience in the industry. As part of this training, students have created over 80 real projects in the video games field. The UPC has organised more than 100 open conferences and promoted the Three Headed Monkey Awards - Social Point, an international contest for amateur projects that is being held for the third time this year and in which more than 40 international projects are participating. In short, video game training at the UPC is a benchmark in Spain and more than 30 Spanish and international companies in the sector are actively involved in this training, including Social Point, King, Digital Legends and Ubisoft.
The objective of the bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development taught in English is to produce professionals who are able to conceptualise, design and program video games and content for digital entertainment that is appropriate for dissemination on various platforms and mobile devices. It does so by focusing students on the international working dynamics that characterise the gaming industry: English is the common language for establishing professional contacts and sharing documents in a scenario in which the employees of professional studios are from different countries and undertake projects in collaboration with their various overseas offices.
At the end of the bachelor’s degree course, in addition to the academic knowledge they have acquired students will have four real video game projects on their CVs with which they can introduce themselves to the more than 70 companies working in the sector in Catalonia today. The teaching methodology is geared towards practical application, with real cases from industry and participation by businesses.
Training at the UPC in the field of video games and digital animation has a clearly professional focus, and is aimed at meeting the growing professional demand in the sector. It is estimated that the number of jobs in the industry will double by 2017 and 5,200 vacancies will be created, according to a study published recently by the Spanish Association of Game and Entertainment Software Developers (DEV). The study also says that the sector will experience an annual growth of 23.7% in the coming years, up to an estimated turnover of 723 million euros in 2017.
Career prospects for graduates of the bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development range from working as video game programmers and developers, mobile device programmers, game designers, graphic designers, technical artists, 3D artists, 2D and 3D animators for video games and digital content to other new profiles that will arise as a result of the sector's expansion and evolution, such as specialists in video game data analysis, quality control, testing and balancing, and gamification consulting, a new area that applies the mechanics and dynamics of gaming to boost users’ motivation and loyalty in other sectors such as education and marketing. These highly specialised and multidisciplinary profiles aim to meet the demands of this leading sector in audiovisual and interactive entertainment.
The UPC is one of the European universities offering the most robust training in the video games field and multimedia industry: more than 400 students have been trained thanks to the experience of professionals from more than 30 professional studios, all with over five years of experience in the industry. As part of this training, students have created over 80 real projects in the video games field. The UPC has organised more than 100 open conferences and promoted the Three Headed Monkey Awards - Social Point, an international contest for amateur projects that is being held for the third time this year and in which more than 40 international projects are participating. In short, video game training at the UPC is a benchmark in Spain and more than 30 Spanish and international companies in the sector are actively involved in this training, including Social Point, King, Digital Legends and Ubisoft.
The objective of the bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development taught in English is to produce professionals who are able to conceptualise, design and program video games and content for digital entertainment that is appropriate for dissemination on various platforms and mobile devices. It does so by focusing students on the international working dynamics that characterise the gaming industry: English is the common language for establishing professional contacts and sharing documents in a scenario in which the employees of professional studios are from different countries and undertake projects in collaboration with their various overseas offices.
At the end of the bachelor’s degree course, in addition to the academic knowledge they have acquired students will have four real video game projects on their CVs with which they can introduce themselves to the more than 70 companies working in the sector in Catalonia today. The teaching methodology is geared towards practical application, with real cases from industry and participation by businesses.
Training at the UPC in the field of video games and digital animation has a clearly professional focus, and is aimed at meeting the growing professional demand in the sector. It is estimated that the number of jobs in the industry will double by 2017 and 5,200 vacancies will be created, according to a study published recently by the Spanish Association of Game and Entertainment Software Developers (DEV). The study also says that the sector will experience an annual growth of 23.7% in the coming years, up to an estimated turnover of 723 million euros in 2017.
Career prospects for graduates of the bachelor’s degree in Video Game Design and Development range from working as video game programmers and developers, mobile device programmers, game designers, graphic designers, technical artists, 3D artists, 2D and 3D animators for video games and digital content to other new profiles that will arise as a result of the sector's expansion and evolution, such as specialists in video game data analysis, quality control, testing and balancing, and gamification consulting, a new area that applies the mechanics and dynamics of gaming to boost users’ motivation and loyalty in other sectors such as education and marketing. These highly specialised and multidisciplinary profiles aim to meet the demands of this leading sector in audiovisual and interactive entertainment.
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