Design
(field of studies: Game Development)

Projektowanie

Bachelor's

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⇑Design at CDV

Field of studies: Game Development

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: arts

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

Description:
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University website: www.cdv.pl/en

⇑Why choose the Design specialisation at Collegium Da Vinci?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Collegium Da Vinci

Why study it:

Programme: gameplay, levels and narrative
Specialisation: one of three areas
Languages: studies fully in English
After graduation: design and narrative roles

Design is a specialisation within the Game Development programme, a Bachelor's degree taught in English at Collegium Da Vinci in Poznań. It is for people who want to decide how a game plays, what story it tells and how the player experiences it.

Programme: gameplay, levels and narrative

Typical elective modules are game design, level design, storytelling, film and literary narratives in games, UX and UI in games, and sound in games. By choosing similar modules you learn to:

design gameplay, levels and mechanics for a chosen game genre
create plot, narrative and player experience
write dialogues and narrative elements for games
design UX and UI in games
use sound as a tool to build emotion and immersion
prepare a portfolio of projects

Specialisation: one of three areas

Choose your own direction. Game Development has no fixed specialisations; Design is one of three typical areas, next to Programming and Graphics, that you can build from elective modules.

Languages: studies fully in English

Studies in brief

LevelBachelor's degree (first cycle)
Duration3 years (6 semesters)
Language of instructionEnglish

After graduation: design and narrative roles

Roles linked to this path include game designer, level designer, narrative designer, game UX/UI designer and game tester or QA tester.

Based on the programme pages at cdv.pl.

⇑Definitions and quotes

Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, coding, and graphic design) is also considered to use design thinking.

Wikipedia

Design

Design is redesign.

Jan Michl (2002), in "On seeing design as redesign" (Scandinavian Journal of Design History 12, 2002: 7-23.)

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Design

Disguise and complication are hindrances, both to good construction and good design, and as complication and disguise are expensive and wasteful... the interests of good art and true economy run on parallel lines.

Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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Design

One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness. ...Nothing can be greater service in avoiding ugliness than a knowledge of the principles of design.

Ernest Flagg, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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