Creative Media & Game Technology - Saxion University

The programme

CMGT is structured around the three most important professional roles in the field:

(1) Artist
The Artist is a talented illusionist. The most important task an artist has, is to create content that really excites the user.
Topics: Programming, Design Thinking, Game Design, UI / UX, Behaviorism, Imagery, Sound Design, 3D Modelling, Cinematics, 2D Animation, Concept Art, Unity 3D

(2)Experience Designer
The Experience Designer is the creative jack-of-all-trades who invents and develops experiences that create value for the user.
Topics: Web, Unity Scripting, Programming, Design Thinking, Game Design, UI / UX, Behaviorism, Imagery, Sound Design, 3D Modelling, Cinematics

(3)Engineer
The Engineer is a realist who is great at seeing and creating structure. He is especially good at the technical realization of interactive media and games.
Topics: : Game Programming, Physics Programming, Algorithms, Input Output, Web, Unity Scripting, Programming, Design Thinking, Game Design, UI / UX, Behaviorism, Imagery

Year 1: Finding out what you are really good at
In your first year you will have every opportunity to experiment and find out what role in the industry suits you best. You will learn about tools and improve your skills and immediately apply what you’ve learned in awesome projects. The Creative Media and Game Technologies programme is structured around the three most important professional roles in the field: artists, experience designers and engineers. In the first year you can experiment with these roles and subsequently choose the one that suits you best.

Year 2 - Choose your role and start your portfolio
After the first year you will specialize in either interactive media or games and will further develop the skills and gain the knowledge you need to grow in your role. You will build a portfolio evidencing your skills and will prepare for your minor or internship.
Topics
(1) Artist: Adaptive 3D Audio, Rigging, 3D Animation, Visual Research, VFX, Sculpting, Procedural Arts, UI / UX Advanced, Business Thinking
(2) Designer: Advanced Web, Immersive Storytelling, Prototyping, Media Literacy, Multimodal Interaction, Gamification, Procedural Arts, UI / UX Advanced, Business Thinking
(3) Engineer: C++, 3D Math, 3D Rendering, Software Architecture, Advanced Tools, Networking, Procedural Arts, UI / UX Advanced, Business Thinking

Year 3 - Doing your minor and internship
In your third year you will specialize further by doing your internship and minor. You are free to make your own choice. In your minor you can focus on a specific part of role. Your internship could be in a Dutch company or in one of the well-known companies elsewhere in Europe, the US or Asia.

Year 4 - Prepare for graduation
In the first half of the fourth year you will continue to specialize yourself in your chosen role and gain an even more in-depth understanding. In the second half of the fourth year you will prepare for graduation by designing and developing an interactive solution or game for an organization.

Career options:
Concept Artist, Visual Effects Artist, User Experience Designer, Virtual Reality Developer, Game Engineer, 3D desiger.