Gaming and Esports

Game Visualization & Essentials

• Clarify game visualization and essentials, encompassing ideation methods, design principles, art fundamentals, color theory, game analysis, mechanics, level design, asset types, genre perspectives, production processes, prototyping, documentation types, and decision-making in game development.

Game Design & Development

• Explore the game design and development, addressing reasons for game failures, studio structures, art styles, asset pipelines, modular design, asset creation and optimization techniques, programming, real-time engines, visual scripting, testing, and economy design.

Game Business & Marketing

• Analyze game business and marketing essentials, including platforms, economy, marketing strategies, monetization tactics, and insights into self-publishing versus external game publishers.

Game Design Game Analyzing

• Describe comprehensive insights into game analysis, covering design, metrics, hyper-casual games analysis, social media trends, fiction versus mechanics, color analysis, visual factors, game flow influences, effectiveness evaluation, balancing factors, and a case study on various games.

Game Conceptualization

• Summarize game conceptualization basics, from avoiding common mistakes to engaging audiences, acquiring users, understanding player personas, balancing story and mechanics, considering social dynamics, deciding on single-player or multiplayer, transitioning from design to development, and outlining the game designer's role, ultimately turning ideas into playable experiences with pitch documentation.

Pre Production for games

• Define the game design process, create game flow diagrams and screenflows, outline game progression, engage in pre-production tasks such as engineering, level design, and prototyping, establish game architecture, document the game design with GDD, and identify various job roles within the pre-production phase.

Game Business

• Analyze game metrics, strategize game economy models, implement game monetization techniques including in-app purchases through code, freemium, premium, and more.

Visual Scripting

• Implement visual scripting in game development, covering the basics of node-based programming, creating game logic without traditional coding, and integrating visual scripting into popular game engines.

Game Development - Programming Fundamentals

• To provide students with a solid foundation in computer programming principles and practices, enabling them to understand fundamental programming concepts, develop problem-solving skills, and write basic programs using C#.

Real-Time Game Engine

• To design, develop, and optimize interactive and Hypercasual games using a real-time game engine, demonstrating basics in utilizing the engine's features, tools, and scripting capabilities to create hyper casual game.

Real-Time Game Engine - Audio Integration

• To design, develop, and optimize interactive and Hypercasual games using a real-time game engine, demonstrating basics in utilizing the engine's features, tools, and scripting capabilities to create hypercasual game & To effectively integrate audio assets into gaming environments, enhancing the overall gaming experience.

Graphic Design

• Understand the fundamentals of Graphic Design to create engaging and easy navigation using character and environment design to animation, texturing, lighting, and visual effects.

Asset Creation

• To create 2D and 3D assets for game, demonstrating proficiency in the use of industry-standard software tools and techniques, and understanding the principles of asset optimization and integration into game engines.

Real-Time Game Engine - Game UI and HUD

• To design and implement effective user interfaces and heads-up displays for games, demonstrating proficiency in creating visually appealing and intuitive interfaces that enhance the player experience and provide relevant feedback and information.

Real-Time Game Engine - Other Integration & Optimization

• To effectively integrate various non-audio elements, such as graphics, physics, networking, and user interfaces, into gaming environments, enhancing the overall gameplay experience & To obtain knowledge and skills to optimize game performance and improve efficiency, ensuring smooth gameplay experiences across different platforms and hardware configurations.

Game Marketing & Publishing

• To navigate the business and marketing aspects of the game industry, enabling them to effectively promote, monetize, and distribute games in a competitive market.

League Operations

• Understand the selection of games for esports leagues, implement diverse league formats, establish comprehensive rulebooks, execute effective league operations, delineate various roles within league operations, and identify job opportunities within the esports league ecosystem.

Event Production

• Learn to overview, categorize, and recognize the necessity of events, establish event objectives, understand pre-planning essentials, budgeting, execution, risk assessment, and post-event evaluation, while exploring diverse event types and opportunities within the event management sector.

Hospitality

• Gain insights into hospitality, including an overview, key facts, understanding its necessity, real-time scenarios, and opportunities within the hospitality sector.

IT and Networking

• Learn to identify types of systems and internet links, configure routers, switches, and WiFi devices, manage networks using monitoring admin dashboards and G Suite, implement content delivery and monitoring solutions, explore job opportunities, and analyze a case study in IT and networking.

Non-Live Content creation

• Master the significance of non-live content creation, strategize and organize non-live content, utilize appropriate tools and equipment, craft captivating content, and evaluate performance to enhance and optimize non-live content effectively.

Live Broadcast Production

• Learn the fundamentals of online production, understand the significance and roles in live broadcast production, design show rundowns, differentiate between traditional and esports broadcasts, identify hardware and software requirements, set up and utilize broadcasting software, prepare necessary assets, explore market opportunities, test hardware and software, and recognize job opportunities within live broadcast production.

Shoutcasting

• Acquire expertise in shoutcasting, distinguishing roles like play-by-play and colorcasting, adapting casting techniques to diverse game genres, and exploring broadcast talent roles such as show hosting and expert analysis in esports events.

Public Relations

• Learn the fundamentals of public relations, encompassing crafting effective communication strategies, managing media relations, navigating crisis situations, building brand reputation, and fostering positive stakeholder relationships.

Legal

• Understand the importance of legal considerations in esports, including contracts, data privacy, intellectual property rights, licenses, business relationships, compliance, and dispute resolution mechanisms, ensuring legal compliance and protection within the industry.

Team Ownership and Management

• Explore the dynamics of esports team ownership and management, covering ownership structures, revenue generation strategies, team operations, hirings, documentation, and legal aspects, to proficiently navigate and optimize team management within the esports industry.

Social Media Engagments / Community Management

• Learn to effectively engage and manage online communities, encompassing community types, management techniques, strategies for building esports communities, leveraging platforms for promotion and marketing, and the role of a community manager in fostering community growth and engagement.

Esports Marketing

• Gain expertise in esports marketing, encompassing the 5 Ps of marketing, SWOT analysis, consumer behavior, marketing media, brand management, target audience segmentation, communication strategies, budgeting, and identifying job opportunities, to excel in the dynamic field of esports marketing.

Sales

• Become proficient in esports sales, encompassing best practices, revenue streams such as esports IP creation and white label businesses, sponsorship strategies, KPI measurement, brand integration, pitching techniques, ROI evaluation, and identifying job opportunities, ensuring adeptness in driving revenue and fostering partnerships within the industry.

Interpersonal Skills

• Refine your interpersonal skills in esports, encompassing audience connection establishment, public speaking mastery, effective networking, social media leverage, adept management of marketing, sales, PR, and league operations, self-reflection, time management optimization, goal setting, and prioritization techniques, fostering higher motivation and productivity within the esports realm.