Game school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

This course explores nontraditional input devices to create interactive user experiences. In addition to the technical, aesthetic and conceptual concerns of this art form, students assesses the work of a range of artists. Students are expected to develop concepts, experiments and prototypes for self-contained interactive objects in immersive environments.

This course addresses interface design, user interaction, and programming for mobile devices. Industry standard tools will be used to build games for mobile devices such as PDAs and mobile phones.

This class exposes students to the fundamental issues of game design and analysis through readings, writings, group discussions, and critiques of current digital and nondigital games. Students form a vocabulary to discuss and analyze each game’s successes and failures with respect to rules and narratives. Through in-class exercises and outside assignments, students create new rules for existing games as well as develop new designs demonstrating applied principles.

The process of video game design from initial concept and pitch through to completed game design using either traditional or agile development methodologies will be the focus of this course. From the first class, students will develop concepts that will be selected for completion by peer design teams. Teams then work to complete the game design document, concept art and an interactive installation, prototype or Web site highlighting their team’s design.

A cinematic artist in the game industry is responsible for creating real-time cinematics, one of the main devices for delivering a narrative in today’s story-driven games. This course covers topics such as scripted events and other technical issues along with the fundamental concepts of cinematography, in order to guide students in developing work for their portfolios.