Each SMU Guildhall Master's student selects a discipline track in the area of game development they wish to pursue as a career path.
Our artists apply natural artistic talent through the latest tools, engines, and software to create interactive game art, bringing imagined worlds and characters to vivid digital life.
As a level designer, you will completely assemble game levels, crafting player experience via gameplay progression, level architecture, player flow, and immersion within your levels.
Production students are servant leaders who shepherd cross-disciplinary teams in a studio simulation. Producers also select a secondary sub-specialization (Art, Design or Programming).
In the Software Development track, you'll write the code that brings characters and environments to life. Programmers study many facets of gameplay programming and game engine architecture.