Overview

Full Sail’s Game Design Bachelor of Science Online Degree Program was designed for students who want to create compelling and inventive experiences for the next generation of games. Courses provide a holistic focus on the gameplay, story development, and production needs of the industry, preparing you for a career creating content for everything from home consoles and computers to emerging platforms like cell phones and other handheld devices.

Through our specialized curriculum you’ll use the production processes used by top studios to design and produce best-selling games, and you'll learn how to apply those processes to a range of products. You’ll also hone your skills by studying the building blocks of narrative design – storytelling, character sketching, level design – and the production tools used to translate these ideas to the screen.

And since games are an intensely collaborative medium, the program maximizes the interactivity tools of the Full Sail Online platform. You'll learn how to incorporate the leadership and project management techniques used by successful designers, and how to effectively work with a team of artists and programmers towards a unified vision.

Throughout the program you’ll apply these techniques to projects that hone your practical understanding of taking a game from concept to completion, preparing you for everything from a career in a bustling, marquee-title studio to your own entrepreneurial endeavors. It all culminates in a final design project where you’ll incorporate critical and analytical techniques learned in the program to develop a complete game prototype.