INTRODUCTION TO GAME DESIGN
HOW TO CREATE A VIDEO GAME
Certificate in Game Design and Project Management
What You'll Learn & Who It's For
Comprehensive Skill Development
- Game design principles & documentation (GDD/TDD)
- Production pipelines & critical milestones
- Agile tools: JIRA, MIRO, Kanban mastery
- Strategic budgeting & risk management
- Game marketing, publishing & IP strategies
Target Audience
- Aspiring game producers seeking leadership roles
- Game designers transitioning to management
- Entrepreneurs launching their own game studios
- Project managers entering the gaming sector
Course overview
Week 1
- A brief history of video games
- Introduction to video game technology
- Game design document creation
- Technical design document creation
- Weekly Project
Week 2
- Milestones
- Scheduling
- Internal milestones
- Outsourcing milestones
- Work for hire milestones
- Weekly Project
Week 3
- Epics, user stories, T-shirts
- Kanban using Excel
- JIRA, MIRO, Slack best practices
- Weekly Project
Week 4
- Video game budgeting
- Risk analysis and risk management
- Weekly Peoject
Week 5
- Introduction to video game marketing & PR
- TRC/TCR on Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X
- Weekly Peoject
Week 6
- QA, localisation, distribution, and publishing
- Company formation & recruitment strategies
- Outsourcing risks and benefits
- Video game marketing & PR
- Weekly Peoject
Week 7
- Hiring best practices
- Employee retention best practices
- Employment contracts
- Trademarks and IP
- Tales from the Abyss
- International Guest Lecture: Running a successful video game company
Week 8 to Week 12
- Final Game Project
- Design your own dream game
- Create a realistic budget for it
- Create a production and team recruitment schedule
- Create a marketing strategy
- Create a pitch deck for publishers
International Guest Lectures
Every year, Karma Play Academy hosts a series of guest lectures from highly experienced game developers. Explore the world-class expertise shared with our students.
Dave Sharp
Video Game Startup & Business Development
Richard M. Holmes
Game Development & Publishing
Ajith Ram
Video Game Production
Richard Dansky
Narrative Game Writing
Chetan Karman
Qality Assurance Processes in Modern Games
Kate Edwards
Video game development & publishing
Franck Boyer
Game Design & Production
Kurt McClung
Transmedia IP
Joel Blakely
Triple A Character Art
Alice Kent
Narrative Design
Sally Blake
Video game Production & Publishing
Sam Striker
Sound effects and interactive audio
Jared Yeager
Video game production & IP development
Elaine Gómez
Game Design
Brooke Burgess
Game Design
Jérémy Hartvick
Game Director
Employment Cell
Our full-fledged Employment Cell maintains a database of over 1,000 game developers and a regularly updated list of available jobs.
- Prepares student CVs.
- Conducts mock interviews.
- Connects students with roles for artists, programmers, QA testers, and more.
World-Class Facilities
Onsite students get access to a dedicated gaming workstation PC for the duration of the course.
We have a separate Console Gaming Room featuring the latest hardware:
- Sony PlayStation 5 & PlayStation VR2
- Microsoft Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
Videos
INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY
A CAREER IN VIDEO GAMES
GENERATIVE AI FOR ART & ANIMATION
ART DIRECTION IN VIDEO GAMES
ANIMATION IN VIDEO GAMES
SOUND DESIGN IN VIDEO GAMES
TECHNOLOGY IN VIDEO GAMES
About Transorze
Transorze has proudly teamed up with Karma Play Academy as its official training partner to bridge the gap between education and the high-stakes world of AAA game development. By merging Transorze’s proven educational excellence with the technical prowess of Karma Play—a registered developer for Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X—we offer students an unprecedented gateway into the industry. This partnership delivers a curriculum powered by DigiPen Institute of Technology, ensuring that aspiring creators are mentored by veterans and equipped with the exact skills required to build the next generation of global gaming hits
About Karma Play Academy
Karma Play Academy has been established to address the serious skills shortage in the video game industry. The academy is a division of video game developer, Karma Play based in Kerala, India.
Karma Play is a registered game developer for the Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X. The company is currently working on multiple games for the PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and mobiles.
Industry Accreditation & Knowledge Partners
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